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Life Path Number 3

Life Path Number 3

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Your Life Path Number is 3

Your purpose in life is to express your unique self.

You are a creative and artistic person with an interesting view on life.
Witty and outgoing, you enjoy sharing your crazy ideas with anyone who will listen.
A total social butterfly, you’re the life of any party.

In love, you inspire and enchant your partner. You are often an object of fantasy and desire.

While you are very talented, you sometimes lack the ambition to put your talents in play.
And while your wit carries you a long way, you occasionally use it to mask your true feelings.
Your natural abilities can bring you all the success in the world … if you let them

(Hat tip to Truth and Beauty– thanks, and great job on the Progressive Bloggers Carnival)

Unconscious Mutterings 157

Unconscious Mutterings 157

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Unconscious Mutterings…

Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme Week 157

I say:: you think

  1. Taking sides:: mediating
  2. Couples:: drama
  3. Right of refusal:: unless part of job description
  4. Marla:: trump
  5. Mutliple:: puppy food (?) – oh, multiple – sclerosis
  6. Trinity:: monotheistic colonization of polytheism
  7. Sneeze:: into elbow
  8. Sweatpants:: give up
  9. Steve:: camp
  10. Fabulous:: gorgeous
No Parent Left Behind?

No Parent Left Behind?

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I sincerely hope that this e-mail collection of "real" excuse notes written by parents in Tennessee is a humorous urban legend. Unfortunately, I find it all too believable. Thanks to Bev for sending.

  1. My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take PE today. Please execute him.
  2. Please exkuce lisa for being absent she was sick and i had her shot.
  3. Dear school: please ecsc’s john being absent on jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
  4. Please excuse gloria from jim today. She is administrating.
  5. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
  6. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
  7. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.
  8. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
  9. Please excuse ray friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
  10. Please excuse pedro from being absent yesterday. He had diahre dyrea direathe the sh**s.
  11. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
  12. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.
  13. I kept billie home because she had to go christmas shopping because i don’t know what size she wear.
  14. Please excuse jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it monday. We thought it was sunday.
  15. Sally won’t be in school a week from friday. We have to attend her funeral.
  16. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the marines.
  17. Please excuse mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.
  18. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
  19. Please excuse brenda. She has been sick and under the doctor.
  20. Maryann was absent december 11-16, because she had a fever, sorethroat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever an sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn’t the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.
Ministry of Reshelving

Ministry of Reshelving

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Here is a sweet little action. It has two faults: One, it is only visible as an action to people who frequent bookstores and actually look at books – that is, it only touches other readers. Or other Flickr viewers.

The other problem is that I can’t help but feel sorry for the people who work at the bookstore.

Still, this is pretty fun.

Flickr: Ministry of Reshelving

How to Serve the Ministry of Reshelving

1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.

2. Download and print "This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving" bookmarks and "All copies of 1984 have been relocated" notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store.

3. Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell’s 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as "Fiction" or "Literature."

4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."

5. Insert a Ministry of Reshelving bookmark into each copy of any book you have moved.

6. Leave a notecard in the empty space the books once occupied, so that visitors can still find copies of 1984.

7. If you spot other incorrectly classified books, feel free to relocate them.

8. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving @ avantgame.com or on the Flickr Ministry of Reshelving group message board. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as "reshelving", and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.

I often find shelving/marketing/genre categories to be off-base anyway.

The post mentions Orwell’s 1984, but I think there are other books this could apply to. Ann Coulter for example – fantasy, clinical studies… Please comment with other suggestions!