I've mentioned before that one of my favorite comic strips is Nine Chickweed Lane, up there with Mutts.

There's a couple of running themes through the strip, including Hallmarks of Felinity.

Another one is Crimes Against Adulthold which is always good.

But this really describes how I feel after this week of classes and work and everything else:

One of My Favorite Puppies
6 September 2002, 10:34 PM

Snagged this image from a friend's web site - it's my favorite puppy, Pocchaco:

1. I love artichokes.
2. I LOVE cheese.
3. I don't like the taste of alcohol at all.
4. My middle name is normally used before a married woman's name and is an Indian muslim title that roughly translates as "Lady" or "Princess".
5. My Dadijan (grandmother) was a Begum.
6. I grew up in Texas.
7. I own a copy of the book I learned to read from.
8. I loved cats and dogs, but my head usually swivels to check out a puppy.
9. When I was little I pulled a hot iron down on my hand. It's still slightly darker were the scar used to be.
10. I broke my arm when I was 4 years old by bouncing up and down on a bed until I fell off and hurt myself.
11. I'm right-handed.
12. I'm allergic to penicillin.
13. I have a scar in my eyebrow from when I had chickenpox as a child.
14. I used to speak so quietly that people would have to lean in or ask me to speak up so that they could hear me.
15. My Pakistani grandfather founded a college.
16. My Finnish grandfather died in Finland's Winter War - when my mother was bearly 4 years old.
17. I never met either of my grandfathers - I only know them through photographs.
18. I hate it when others whistle. Drives me nuts.
19. I had many nicknames when I was younger. Fuzzy Bear, Fozie Bear, Fonzia.
20. I still miss my dog Ruffy.
21. I don't like human babies.
22. I can write caligraphy.
23. I slept with a 4 inch high teddy bear named Honey Bear until I was 12.
24. I love surprises.
25. I finally learned to knit.
26. I think the new VW Beetles are just the cutest damn things on the road.
27. My first car wreck totaled the car.
28. I prefer station wagons.
29. I used to roller skate up and down my street everyday after school.
30. I can't ride a bike.
31. I'm generally an optimist.
32. If I'm not eating I'm very depressed about something.
33. I can sing a number of children's songs in Finnish.
34. I'm the first person in my family to vote.
35. I was ranked in tennis in Texas for a short while.
36. I am exactly 5 feet tall. No extra inches.
37. I dislike social class definitions, and could possibly have fit myself or my immediate family into almost any/all of them at various times.
38. I'm fascinated by food from around the world.
39. I can't speak more than a few words of either of my parent's native languages.
40. I love the ocean, and really miss not being closer to it.
41. I am a Meyers-Briggs INFJ type. (Although I'm sometimes an INXX.)
42. I have bowls of beads scattered around my house. I don't string them, I just keep them to run my fingers through 'em.
43. I love baskets. I have LOTS of baskets. I probably have a basket fetish.
44. My first word was "look".
45. I like needlework and have done embroidery, crewl, cross-stitch, etc.
46. I always get teary-eyed at the end of "Charlotte's Web."
47. I love caves.
48. My National Geographic collection goes back to 1967.
49. I've built a snowman only once in my life.
50. I like to bake.
51. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was one of my heros.
52. I was always fascinated with the life of Helen Keller.
53. I love ladybugs and inchworms.
54. Even when I was terribly shy, I would break out of my shell to battle someone who was bullying someone else. I HATE bullies
55. I associate the sound of cicadids with the beginning of summer.
56. I like earthtones. I do like bright colors too, but don't tend to surround myself with them.
57. I can't sing, though I would really like to.
58. I can't play an instrument, though I keep trying to learn the guitar and piano.
59. I am a virgo.
60. I once read over 100 books during the summer when I was in elementary school.
61. I love to garden.
62. If I even *look* at a daddy-long-legged spider he'll become a octopalegic.
63. I hate wasps, but I have no problem with spiders or snakes. I've held a tarantuala before.
64. I've been through several hurricanes and one tornado.
65. I can solve a Rubix cube.
66. I love to travel, and don't mind airports, packing, hotels, etc.
67. I have every single fortune I ever got out of a fortune cookie all stashed away in a tin.
68. I have osteoarthritis in my hands.
69. When I was little I turned my closet floor into a mini-lab, with microscopes, chemistry stuff and preserved things in spice jars.
70. I can handle some power tools.
71. I want to have the statistical 2.5 "kids" - a cat, a dog, and a gerbil.
72. My Uncle Pertti, now retired, was the Secretary general of Finland.
73. I like glass bangles, and have a collection of over 300 glass and metal bangles.
74. I hate high heels and never wear 'em.
75. My eyes are hazel.
76. My spice cabinet is stuffed to the gills with all kinds of things in lareg amounts. I could never use one of those small spice racks.
77. Hot air-popped popcorn - absolutely fresh -is my choice for a snack while reading.
78. My favorite cake is carrot cake.
79. I think in terms of lists, and always have several lists around.
80. I have almost always had a pet at some point in my life.
81. I love chocolate.
82. I don't like croutons.
83. I don't like or understand apathy. I get angry with apathetic people.
84. I have been to Finland, UK, France, Mexico, Canada, Pakistan.
85. I have been to almost all the 50 United States.
86. Lightning fascinates me.
87. I once wrote a paper about the Loch Ness monster.
88. I didn't really understand multiplication until a teacher showed me how to divide.
89. Egg yolks make me gag.
90. I love the look of brushed metal.
91. My vision is very, very near-sighted.
92. I have one younger sister, who is a doctor.
93. I have never been camping.
94. My hair is naturally curly.
95. I once met Tim Berners-Lee.
96. My very first school science project won a ribbon.
97. I kept a diary of my trip to Finland when I was 8 years old.
98. I have a photograph of my great=great-grandmother and great-great-grandfather on my mother's side.
99. My undergraduate major is anthropology.
100. I once thought I'd become a dentist.

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