Sorry for the complete lack of updates this week. I've recently taken up a temp job because we're broke. Beyond broke, actually. We were broke two months ago.

Anyway, I wanted to thank everyone for their kind words about the passing of my family's dog. I had notes from all over, Ohio, Northern California, Southern California, Massachusetts, Maine. One of my cousins wrote a very nice poem. I even had a pet sympathy card in the mail. How nice is that?!

Apparently I broke the news to many different people in Naples and Casco, too. My folks were amazed when family and friends started calling to offer sympathy - before my parents had the chance to call them to tell them what happened! It's not unlike when I broke the news about Chris Sanders being fired from Disney Animation. Cutting edge journalism, here.

Anyway, there were a couple of other things that I wanted to mention, but now I'm at a loss as to what they were. (Still not used to getting up this early in the morning).

Well, let's look at the news. Did you see that there's a camel in New Jersey (of all places) who is 10-0 in handicapping NFL games this year? Apparently she picks the Patriots over the Jets tonight.

And this was in the news a few weeks ago, but apparently American University in Dubai has been in talks with USC to create a journalism school. This article points out a few of the flaws with the Mohammed bin Rashid School for Communication - mostly how they say they won't "discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, color, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, marital status or any other category protected by law in employment or in any of its programs and/or activities."

Of course that's complete bullshit because the Jewish people aren't looked kindly upon in dear old Dubai.

Lastly, does anyone else think it's odd that Michael Crichton died only a week before Anthony Edwards returns to ER? I'm pretty sure that's one of the listed signs of the apocalypse.

Okay, I have to go get ready for my day. The sun's going to be up at 6:32 am, and if I don't beat him to the shower, that bastard uses all of the hot water ...