Lip Service

Here is my plea to all my female (and maybe some male) friends, family, and acquaintances. Please, please do not get collagen injected in your lips. Ever, ever, ever. I am not anti-plastic surgery. If you need a little tweak here and there, far be it from me to judge. But lip work is always noticeable and never attractive. So many stars seem to think they have subtlely dropped ten years, when actually, those big lips automatically age you. I am watching CSI season 7 on DVD with Scott, and Marg Helgenberger's lips are completely lopsided. I can't focus on anything else (hence the post). And yet EVERYONE continues to do it!
Anyway, I found this link that shows the horrors. If you want fuller looking lips, put on a light lip gloss!
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/cat_bad_collagen_in_lips.html

Samuel Beckett should have written a play about the postal service

I have finally figured out how the US postal service works, at least in my area. I have had sooo many problems trying to get packages from them that they just don't want to relinquish. Going down to the local office you find huge lines with one person showing up for a minute, then disappearing for 15 to look for a package, talk on the phone, order pizza, who knows. Anyway, I have finally found a consistent pattern (not joking, this has happened exactly the same way multiple times).
1. I receive a "Sorry we missed you" slip in my mailbox. That's funny, I've been home ALL day waiting for the package. How about more like "Sorry I'm too lazy to do my job" (hahahaha.....haha, sigh)
2. I get online and request redelivery of the package for the next day and receive a confirmation number.
3. I wait at home all day and it does not come.
4. I call the local post office to inquire whether everyone was sick and unable to deliver the package. After asking what I wanted twice and being on hold for 15 minutes total, they inform me they can't help me and I must call the 1-800 number. Click. It apparently took them 15 minutes of diligently looking to find the number for me.
5. I call the 1-800 number and tell them what happened. They don't care, but take down my request to have the package redelivered for the next day.
6. I wait at home all day in naive expectation and it does not come. I have become a character in an absurdist play. (What is life but periods of pointless waiting?) Or that Seinfeld where they wait the entire episode for a table and never get it. Either/or.
7. Internal debate ensues over whether or not I should go down to the post office the next day to pick up the huge package and balance it on top of the stroller hoping it doesn't cave in on my sweetie, thus risking it being delivered while I'm gone trying to retrieve it.
8. The next day I am so fraught with indecision that I do nothing and lie down with a headache.
9. Once I have been beaten into submission and the will to live sucked out of me, I get a knock on the door. A friendly delivery man gives me my package, my energy to ask him any questions about how their system works having been crushed by existential despair. The postal service has now achieved its real goal.
10. And that's how the postal service works.

My New Favorite Comic

So my friend Dave from my med school class added me on Facebook yesterday and of course I did what you always should do when you make a new Facebook friend - check out all their pictures and links to websites you had no idea they had.

So, Dave, by inadvertently adding me as a friend, introduced me to his blog, which introduced me to a webcomic called xkcd. Marketing majors, take careful note: this is how it happens. Anyway, xkcd is so randomly hilarious, I seriously loved every strip. But, I will mention, that it's not for everyone. It uses a lot of weird random humor, in a combination with a lot of nerdy topics, which both suit me perfectly, as most of you already know.

Here is one of my favorites (less nerdy than the average, click to make it bigger):



And another (about as nerdy as it gets):



In related news, I started another blog. This one is more about my random thoughts and stuff, and is anonymous, so I can feel more free to say things about stuff that happens to me without someone blogging my name and then saying, "So he thinks my company stinks like dog pee? Well, I'm never hiring him!" Also, I can be more random and basically talk about stuff that doesn't belong here on this more pictures-and-videos-of-Sonja-family-oriented blog. Obviously permanently linking from here would remove the anonymity, so I'll provide the link, but I'm taking it down after a couple days. Email me at malenien (my gmail) if you want the link after it is down.

Feel free to add it to your RSS feeds, or to the links on your own blog, just don't add my name to the link. Thanks. More of my favorite xkcd comics are there.

The link is gone.