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Art? Or terror?

An art student put forty black boxes all over Union Station with the word FEAR on them. His art shut the place down for five hours. Was this art? Was this stupid? It might have been intended to be art, but overall I think it was stupid. If he was talking about Sept. 11, then…

December 20, 2002
Day 18

Okay. I've been doing fairly well with BFL. So far this time my biggest problem is getting sufficient calories to not be in starvation mode. I like doing weight lifting with my husband. (When he's doing curls, he gets totally naked. That makes it a bit hard to concentrate, but immensely more fun.) I have…

December 20, 2002
Hijacked by the religious right?

Salon carried a story that says that Bush has contraceptive policies that have been hijacked by the religious right. Being of the religious right myself, I went to read what I could get to of the article. (Can't get to all of it because I don't subscribe to Salon.) Basically it said that at a…

December 20, 2002
Christmas: Santa's antics explained

Santa shows up as bioengineered during the Middle Ages in the wonderful, whimsical response to the analysis that purports to debunk the ability of Santa to make it to all houses overnight. Of course, by the end it seems that it is the mystical evergreens that are really responsible for Christmas. Cute, though. Check it…

December 20, 2002
Telemarketing.

Okay, I've had it. When we moved here two and a half years ago, I was amazed at how many telemarketers were calling. It used to be that I'd get maybe one a week. Here I get two or more every day. That was bad enough. But then when I wasn't home, the computers would…

December 19, 2002
Anthropological view of homeschooling

I received my weekly on-line newsletter from Homeschoolers Legal Defense Association. Included was a copy of an article for the Washington Times concerning homeschooling from an anthropological perspective. This article is an interesting one, since I homeschool. I thought her “homeschool look” was fairly accurate. I often wait to put on make-up till my husband…

December 19, 2002
Immigrants arrested.

INS has arrested possibly hundreds of immigrants who went to register as per the law . INS won't release numbers. They say everyone has violated their green card or visa or is a criminal. You know, I bet some of those folks really are criminals. I also bet some of those “violations” are ridiculous. One…

December 19, 2002
Sky marshals.

The UK has decided to have sky marshals on their airlines. Sky marshals are law enforcement agents who will have a gun with them on the plane. Their purpose is to be a deterrent to terrorism. If a bad guy makes it on the plane, there will be a good guy to rescue everyone. The…

December 19, 2002
Christmas newsletters

Some of you probably aren't old enough to get those. But once you know folks with families, you start getting more and more of them. Some people don't like them. They consider them rude. I, however, think that they may be the last link holding old friends together. Even if we don't write often, we…

December 19, 2002
Kid hacks system, lowers grade

I saw this on another blog at Blog-city and couldn't believe it. But it's true. A kid hacked into the school computer and lowered his grades . That sounds fantastical till you read the article. The whole time (three seconds) I was clicking and waiting for the page to upload, I was trying to think…

December 19, 2002
Exercising too much. Gaining muscle.

One of the things that you can do when you are wanting to exercise and look great is overtraining. Overtraining is when you don't let your muscles recover before you stress them again. I am sure you can overtrain aerobically, like the 700 pool laps the girl did in Mallrats, but that's not where I…

December 19, 2002
Thin For Life

Thin for Life is a great book by Anne Fletcher. In it she gives overviews of about six studies on people who lost weight and kept it off. Then she discusses her study with 160 “masters” at keeping weight off. I think the minimum was 30 pounds for 3 years. But there were people who…

December 19, 2002
Being stood up.

Yesterday I was stood up. An acquaintance and I made plans for her to come over for brunch. She had to leave by one, so I thought I'd make a turkey frittata and salad. She never came. She never called. It's not nice to do that to people. If you can't make an appointment, call…

December 17, 2002
Day 16: BFL

Went for a bike ride again today. No attacking ducks though. Yesterday I really tried to eat a lot more fiber, eat more calories (mine have been dipping low again), and make sure I had at least five meals. The BFL program recommends six meals, but when you're a woman looking at between 1200 and…

December 17, 2002
TV: Love by Design

Okay, I like design shows. I like HGTV and TLC's programs about re-designing houses. I watch or have watched most of them: Room by Room, Trading Spaces, Surprised by Design, While You Were Out, Room for Change, Decorating Cents, and Sensible Chic. But I've found a show that's just too over the top for me.…

December 17, 2002
History of being fat.

I'm going to go on a journey through my memory about weight gaining and stuff. Feel free to skip this if you aren't interested. My mom was very slender when she was younger. Then she had four kids and four miscarriages and began eating to comfort herself. She used food for all kinds of emotional…

December 17, 2002
Where do you come from?

Reuters: Brazilian DNA talks about the fact that on the maternal side “white” Brazilians are one third indigenous, one third African, and one third European. Most of the paternal side was European. What defines a white Brazilian? They don't look like they came from Africa. And Brazilians are VERY prejudiced about how you look. Which…

December 17, 2002
Eating more, weighing less

A blog entry on weight loss shows before and after pictures of a lady who began eating more and exercising less so that she could lose weight. Remember I mentioned the starvation problem with metabolism? Here's the calendar girl for it.

December 17, 2002
Attacking ducks

I went for a bike ride today. It was nice. Not cold. Not hot. When I got to the first bridge in my ride, about three miles out, I heard ducks, really loud ducks, and I looked to my right and a formation of ducks were ascending from the water, headed straight for the bridge.…

December 17, 2002
Vegetarianism

I became a vegetarian originally because it was too much trouble to cook non-vegetarian meals when half the household was vegetarian. I stayed a vegetarian because it was supposed to be healthier and better for the environment. I'm still fairly sure it is better for the environment. But, although the leading causes of death in…

December 17, 2002

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