Ha.

I haven't done this quiz for a long time.

( But the results are always the same. )

Taking Hannah to the bookstore today as I try to get over my recent bout with food poisoning (yeah, baby!). My philosophy is that a person can never have too many books. So what if that "to be read" pile keeps growing and growing until it falls over? One day, the perfect book will be hiding in there.

I went to Powell's books, I think it was, one day a few years ago with the intention that the right book for me would present itself. Powell's is huge, and this was just the Cascade store, not the hugest-ever downtown store. I wandered and wandered and a few books literally fell off the shelves into my hands. One was a Bill Bryson book (he's wonderful but I didn't know it at the time) and another was Lost by Gregory Maguire, of Wicked fame. They both proved to be excellent and awesome, and so I might try to weave that same magic today while Hannah's searching for ultimate Pokemon guidebooks, thus explaining today's avatar. Some things you just can't ever forget. Like this:

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight.

(I freely admit to being a voice-actor fangirl. Eric Stuart is in my top five. Hello James. Hello Brock. Hello Seto Kaiba. And on and on.)

All You Environmentalists Out There...

Take a minute and read. I really doubt they'll mind if I copy it here, and it will reach so many more of you this way.

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Dear Friend,

The fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be determined in mid-September when Congress casts its decisive vote on the budget reconciliation bill. The Bush Administration is pressuring members of Congress hard to make sure that they stay lined up behind a budget bill that would sacrifice the Arctic Refuge to the oil industry. They are closer than they've ever been before to their goal of plundering one of America's greatest natural treasures. But we can still stop them!

The NRDC Action Fund has launched a seven week campaign to save the Refuge. The first step is to Make Sure Congress Gets the Picture by sending every member of Congress a thousand photos that capture the beauty and spirit of the Arctic Refuge. I just sent photos to my representatives in Washington, and I hope you will too. Click on a photo below now or go to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/arcticphotos/photos.asp to send a powerful message to your representatives!

Sincerely yours,

John H. Adams
NRDC Action Fund

Synchronicity.

I went on my little outing with Hannah and I made a shopping list. On a whim, I put one of my favorite things down, just in the extremely off chance I came across it while out.

I did.

Look what I got.

It's something to study at leisure and without commercial interruption now! I'm so pleased.

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