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For what it's worth, if you and Julio had really bonded, he's likely feeling at least as bad as you are. Consider also that you're going to leave for a few days; he fled all the way back to Spain. The pain driving that must be substantial. I don't say this to elicit schadenfreude; but maybe examining the other point of view will help you step outside your own pain for a moment. One other thing to note -- read into it what you will -- over the 5 pages of your blog up to this entry, the word "Julio" occurs 17 times. The word "Chaz" occurs 78 times.

A lot of these cough medications (antitussives) contain either dextromethorphan (an opioid) or an antihistamine (such as diphenhydramine=benadryl), along with some alcohol. Could be enough to knock a 4 year old for a loop. Poor kid! PS--I still haven't had a chance to read 5, but 3 & 4 were great!

Hehehe. Do people actually know what cooties are? Cooties are body lice (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cooties). Nothing a permethrin treatment couldn't fix. I confess to not knowing that until about 9th grade. Up to that point, I thought "cooties" was a deliberate mispronunciation of "cuties". Of course, then the appropriate usage would be that girls *are* cooties, not that girls *have* cooties; or, if you're gay, that MEN are cooties. Men such as this fellow: http://modelsmore.50webs.com/g4/maxiraoul011.JPG http://modelsmore.50webs.com/g4/maxiraoul008.JPG Mmmmm, Raoul Bova. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Oh, and a note on cold symptoms: next time, AS SOON AS you feel even a tiny bit achy and start to have a tickle in the throat, take a zinc lozenge (let it melt near the throat). They really do decrease symptom duration if taken EARLY.

It's sad, but the avatar has more flexible hips and better rhythm than I do.

On that note, here's an archive of challenging and entertaining math problems for when you're bored http://www.unl.edu/amc/f-miscellaneous/archivegeneral.html

The 31-year-old boy-wonder General Manager for the Boston Red Sox left yesterday. He had led them to their first world series victory in 86 years. I'm sure all you sports fanatics care more about the baseball than I do...I'm just posting some of the press pics because he's hot Yahoo Slide Show

Happy Birthday, Kendercleric!

To take a contrary viewpoint, why do these things matter to you? In particular, Why does the age of his ex matter to you? If you view it as a warning sign of pathology, the only way it will make any difference is if you decide to use this information prejudicially and cut off the relationship before getting to know him further. If you decide to give him the benefit of the doubt, a little patience will eventually reveal whether he has psychopathology that you cannot tolerate. If you decide to wait and see, you should put suspicion aside; suspiciousness on YOUR part is itself a psychopathology that will poison the relationship. Why does what he does with his ex matter to you? Jealousy is useless. Jealousy practically never gets anyone to love you more. Moreover, love is a gift. If you try to compel him to love you, or force him to choose between you and his ex, what you get can't be considered love. Whether good or bad, it appears that he is still quite involved with his ex, and you will very likely have to live with it if you wish to get further involved with him. If you can't live with that, then quit now. The common principle underlying both these points is that you can't control other people. You can only control yourself. You can COMMUNICATE with other people, and try to understand where they're comng from, and let yourself be persuaded, or try to persuade them; but you can't CONTROL them.

I saw this book today and thought of you.

Cool that you have a friend who knows you this well. Checkout limewire (http://www.limewire.com/english/content/home.shtml) for downloading songs. It took just 5 minutes to pull Breathe Me off the net. No car trip necessary.

Funny Lord of the Rings themed take on taters: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/taters.php

Wow, high end stuff! I checked out their website http://www.arbonne.com/ I wish I had known about this stuff when I was a teenager. And had used more sunblock too. Good for you!

Sorry, I don't know anything about the genetics of skin oiliness. I bet many genes are involved though. I didn't mean just washing the face; I meant washing with 2% salicylic acid. Different companies make the stuff - clearasil, neutrogena, and even the local drugstore will have its own brand too. Usually available in the facial care aisle of the local drugstore, with the other acne care products. Look for salicylic acid in the ingredients. (The other major nonprescription anti-acne compound is benzoyl peroxide, which I generally find is very harsh -- causes redness, drying, & peeling. Salicylic acid can potentially do that too, though less so. Oh, and I've usually found creams to be gentler than the solutions.)

daily face wash with a 2% salicylic acid solution or cream can help cut down on the acne.

Costco isn't completely useless! Just for perishable items. It's excellent for Twinkies, oreos, and other petroleum byproducts.

LOL. translation: If, after leaving the church (becoming an apostate), you retain the lessons on the "hypostatic union" of divine & human natures in Christ, you'll know more than the usual person who's ditched his previous religion (tergiversator; another word for apostate) about two of the earliest christian heresies (Nestorian & Eutychian). The hypostatic union rigmarole was developed to combat those two christologic heresies. :2hands:

If you retain the lessons in hypostasis after apostatizing, you'll be one of the few tergiversators who can expound on the Nestorian and Eutychian heresies.

Attention whore? Snow_Dog left the site with great "drama, pulling heartstrings, etc.": after his (at the time supposedly) End of the Road post, his blog was singled out and featured prominently in a place of honor above all the others for several days. It gathered 29 emotional replies in direct response, and generated heart-felt entries in other blogs, including VERY SAD, The Culture of GA, and Snowey is OK. Only to then return just a few weeks later.

Having stuck it out this far, at least get your 12th eagle-qualifying badge & eagle scout status before ditching. You said it would only be for a couple more months, and attaining a well-recognized rank would be evidence of in-depth accomplishment, ability to advance through the ranks, etc. etc. etc.. Stuff like that is great on college applications. Edit: Nevermind.

Well, that you've been a scout this long suggests that you're not as flamingly gay as you imagine. Since Dale vs. BSA, the scouts have unabashedly declared themselves to be anti-gay.

But would you be doing this while on the phone?

Not a nerd...a brane! You're totally right that Einstein was a significant contributor to quantum mechanics. Even that EPR paper we mentioned in the soapbox (Einstein-Podolski-Rosen), which tried to argue that it wasn't that nature was undetermined, but that we just didn't know what was there, ended up being the basis for further confirmation of the probabilistic nature of QM. Kind of ironic that he contributed so much to an area he ended up not liking; but also a tribute to his brilliance, that even when he was wrong, his thinking still ended up advancing the field. Sorry about the bad day for your CC team! But now you have the raw emotional material to make up sad country music.

Pretty much just the sequin belt. Sharon plus spiked heels and feathered boa!!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A wee bit TMI. This is what PMs are for!

Happy Birthday, Anna!