This is why

This is exactly why I got those shots.

Poor kid. Poor family.

China's Age Bank

Here's a really excellent and elegantly simple idea being put to good use in China: Volunteers log time with the elderly, so they can in turn get care as they age. This reminds me of my earlier post here where I asked people to post comments passing along ideas that made the world a better place.

Snarl

I. Am. So. Damn. Sick. of being the only one in my family that gives a rat's patootie.

I don't want to be the responsible one anymore.

Lack of energy

This is the third night in a row I am ready to go to bed about an hour and a half before my usual bedtime. I am so exhausted--I am blaming the allergies--and it means I am not getting a lot of my commitments done. I am supposed to have banged out an academic synopsis for a panel at Lumos and started my own paper. But I can't even think to frame a sentence.

*curses*