how about a listlog today?

1. item numero uno: i welcome another friend and ATDP colleague to our weblogging universe: Carrie "Jeopardy Queen" Brown. (see the adults list on the left.) yes, Carrie was on the Jeopardy quiz show several years ago, and sometime soon she'll tell all about her rendezvous with Alex Trebek, on her FAQ. ;-) she did very well, getting to the Final round that week. upon her return, i promptly signed her up for a new e-mail account -- jeopardy@uclink.berkeley.edu -- and when she finally relented to our pressure (Yoshiko, Candace, Laura, me) to have a weblog too, of course, i had her name it "jeopardy.editthispage"! mwahaha.

2. item numero two-o: Quad said he has interested a classmate in weblogging. looks like the ECHS gang is going gangbusters! so, where is his/her weblog, Q-boy?

3. item--even the best will fall: some tremendous upsets occurred in the Olympics, of athletes who were the overwhelming favorites to win their event. Australian world record holder Susie O'Neill was beaten in the 200-meter butterfly by Misty Hyman, a 16-year old American girl. Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin of Russia, who had NEVER lost a match, lost 1-0 to this pudgy Yank, Rulon Gardner. And yesterday, my personal running hero, Morocco's Hicham El-Guerrouj, placed second in the 1,500 final to Kenya's Noah Ngeny. These upsets, and quite a few others, is sport's (ergo, life's) way of saying: nothing is guaranteed. Even the best will fail, from time to time.

4. item--rhetorical questions on allergies: how come some days the dust and pollen are mixed just so, as it is today, so that i am bedevilled by an allergy attack? also, how come i never got these things when i was in the Philippines and in Hawaii? is it a function of aging? ha.

5. item--artwork: my friend and colleague Yoshiko-san has a new art piece (well, 'tis an old one really) on her weblog. being a weblogging newbie, she made that mistake we all made in the beginning, by editing an entry instead of Flipping the day. ::chuckle:: click on the painting to see the larger version.

6. item--rodent gender bender: it turns out my rat Nikolai is a, uhm, ::cough::girl::cough:: !! uh Trev, looks like your animal sex-figurer-out mechanism isn't quite working. and for someone who works at the SF Zoo?! ;-) in any case, i'm not renaming hi... uh, her. "Nik" or "Nicky" seems unisex enough of a name, eh? she's growing bigger, too. check out the pic. (for the lewdly curious, i figured it out by referring to my handy-dandy rat book, which had a couple of pages of 'explicit' pix, and then submitting poor Nik to the humiliation of a tail-dangle and genital scrutiny... eew.) per my friend Jane's suggestion, i also considered the Flip female counterpart of Nicolas -- Kulasa -- but everyone hereabouts, myself most of all. is already used to "Nik," so Nik she shall remain.

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