I'm feeling a little better today. Well, at least, back at work. I was so restless at home yesterday, I really felt like I was forcing myself to stay home sick. I'm not really ultra-sick, its more like that feeling of fighting something off. I still kind of feel that way today. I figure if I was well enough to go sailing last night, I'm well enough to come to work today.

(Speaking of which, we got third place last night. There was also a little girl and her father sailing in the class, and the little girl was awesome, not because she sailed, but because she told me about her favorite Greek myths, word for word from my favorite book of myths, and then she pointed out an oleander plant and said "that's an oleander, they're poison.")

I think I may've found a boat to buy. Stay tuned.

As Sarah pointed out, some of our work has appeared on the Accident Investigation Boardwebsite. I worked on slides 10, 20, and 21 and was involved in the decisions that went into making slide 14 & 15. Go me!

This was funny: Bush cites "Last Starfighter" as reason for entering politics.

And I love when Jen goes on her feminist kicks in her journal. She commented on how she tends to walk in and count the number of women in her class. Its funny, I never realized this before she mentioned it, but I do the same thing -- its practically an subconscious reaction (so I didn't even notice I was doing it until just now when Jen mentioned it). But this part from Jen's entry was particularly interesting:

In 'Schoolgirls' by Peggy Orenstein, she talks of fears she had in writing her senior thesis, convinced that people would find her out to be a fraud and not the smart person she was thought to be. The passage continues as follows:

'Back then, I went to my adviser and told her of the fears that were choking me.

"You feel like an imposter?" she asked. "Don't worry about it. All smart women feel that way."'

And, here are pictures of my new little half-sister Demetra Jeanette:

With Dad:

With my half-brother Rob (don't comment on the two books you see in the background "Boy or Girl?" or "What to Expect when you're expecting", and the literacy level of the person those books would've been of most interest to):

With my cousin Catie: