
These earrings sold out before I could get me a pair...
(Technorati tags: girl geeks, geek earrings)

These earrings sold out before I could get me a pair...
(Technorati tags: girl geeks, geek earrings)
So glad to hear that my new habit of quaffing iced coffees is balancing out my overindulgence of wine:
Drinking as little as one cup of coffee a day could help protect you from liver disease caused by alcohol, according to research published today.People who drink one cup of coffee are 20% less likely to have alcoholic cirrhosis than those who abstain from doing so.
Now all the egghead scientists need to do is reveal that sitting in front of a computer all day makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, and I'm all set.
This is fake:

This, holy crap, is real:

Let's pretend that Typepad clocked the time down to the second in the timestamps it slaps on posts. Cuz that would make it, at this very moment, precisely 01:02:03 04/05/06 on the East Coast of the United States.
"Nobody likes a math geek, Scully."--Agent Mulder
All the bloggy kids seem to be playing this at the moment, and who am I not to jump on a bandwagon. Thus...
Four jobs you’ve had in your life: newspaper delivery girl (while I was in junior high school), retail slave (at a Service Merchandise, my senior year in high school), pedicab driver (for one day this summer, when I was desperate for cash; fortunately, my freelance writing/editing work picked up immediately after), food/fashion/beauty writer at McCall’s magazine
Four movies you could watch over and over: The Princess Bride, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Midnight Run, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Four places you’ve lived: Long Island, Manhattan, Yonkers, the Bronx -- all in New York State
Four TV shows you love to watch: at the moment? Stargate SG-1, Medium, House, Lost
Four places you’ve been on vacation: Iceland; Vancouver, Canada; London; Northwest Arkansas
Four Web sites you visit daily: Americablog, Savage Chickens, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Slashdot
Four of your favorite foods: red wine, brie, red peppers, Ikea Swedish meatballs
Four places you’d rather be: at the movies, London, asleep, Mars
Four albums you can’t live without: Walk the Line soundtrack; John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together; The Road to Ensenada, Lyle Lovett; The Mask and the Mirror, Loreena McKennitt
Feel free to chime in with your own fours in comments...
Turns out I'm 81 percent Loner, 69 percent Geek. Sounds about right, even almost twenty years later. High school never really ends, does it?