Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in bix's LiveJournal:

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Friday, October 10th, 2008
3:56 pm	New mscancerchick up. All cancer related, the usual maybe-good, maybe-bad, news. Could be worse! (be careful)
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
12:15 pm	Vote for Irma And by "for" I mean "because of." She can, and she remembers a time when she can't. We can and we should. ---------- In 1920, the first year that all American women could vote for president, Irma Schmidt walked to her hometown fire station with her grandmother, mother, and aunt to vote for Warren G. Harding. Now 110 years old, Schmidt has voted in every presidential election since, and is believed to be the oldest registered voter in Connecticut. Schmidt is an unaffiliated voter, and has cast her ballot for Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, and Kerry in the past. "Voting was always something you looked forward to," she says. Staff members at the nursing home where she lives says she reads newspapers and talks about the news every day, but she wouldn't say if she's voting this year, or which candidate she prefers. [The Hartford Courant] (be careful)
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
2:53 pm	The Onion's Incredible Psychic Powers From 2001--W's inaugaration day, to be precise. Is hilariously funny through one's tears. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784 (2 running with scissors| be careful)
2:26 pm	New mscancerchick up. About breast cancer in general, not mine in particular. (be careful)
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
1:14 pm	Pray For Us, Sarah Sarah Palin's church sponsored a "pray away the gay" retreat a few days ago--because, as we all know, it was one of the things Jesus enjoined us to do, right there with taking care of the poor--and a clever filmmaker filmed various clever and interested people reacting to this happy spiritual news. Full of accents and sarcasm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAK4DQphFVg (be careful)
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
1:45 pm	New mscancerchick up. What's German for cancer? (be careful)
Friday, August 8th, 2008
7:35 pm	New mscancerchick up. Always fun when writing looped! (be careful)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
6:02 pm	Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 30, 2008 sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective: 1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words. 2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables. 3. A long word (be careful)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
8:44 pm	Only a week or so away! Salon's King Kaufman on leaked video of Olympics opening ceremony: ------------------------- The Olympic opening ceremony is always a ridiculous, seemingly endless affair, sort of a mashup of "Riverdance," "Cats," the dance numbers from "Showgirls," a Super Bowl halftime show, a Soviet May Day parade and a circa-1971 Coke commercial. On steroids. I don't mean that in a good way, believe it or not. -------------------------- (be careful)
8:43 pm	New mscancerchick up. Stuff about cancer. At least it's not about anxiety. This time, anyway. (be careful)
Friday, July 25th, 2008
9:30 pm	New mscancerchick up. Note to self: do not write cancer updates while looped, even on doctor-administered meds. (be careful)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
5:33 pm	Reminder for Politicians who Pander ...be it to the right, left or most notably of late, center... "I don't let my mouth say nothing my head can't stand." Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (2 running with scissors| be careful)
Monday, July 7th, 2008
10:08 pm	Hey, gramina ..because you said there was too much bad news on your flist (actually, this is for everyone who needs a lift)... CUPCAKES!!! (6 running with scissors| be careful)
3:13 pm	New mscancerchick up. A big "feh." (be careful)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
3:14 pm	Yes, I'll say yes, yes The confluence of Bloomsday and California Gay Marriage Day is a pleasing one. (be careful)
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
1:01 pm	New mscancerchick up. Catching up. (be careful)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
7:00 pm	Query I just read in Time magazine about a movement called 100 Thing (yes, singular)...a challenge to simplify your life by winnowing down posessions to a mere 100. Questions abound; does a pair of shoes count as one item, or do shoes in general count as one item? Rules are also in place; sentimental items are immune, so are items belonging to others (no clearing out the spouse's closet or limiting your kid's stuffed animals). I am of mixed mind about this. On one hand--yeah, we've got too much stuff. For sure. On the other hand; I love things. There is nothing like a thing. When growing up, I loved visiting a particular house because the occupants were global travelers back when that really meant something, and everywhere you looked there were masks from Africa and rugs from Persia and strange objects from India and so forth. Their house told many stories and I loved listening. I wanted to be like that. Now I know that being like that means dusting. And I caught myself being consumer cautious in Paris, because, oh, don't I have one already? So where do you fall down on this? Clutter or simplicity? And if we were, hypothetically, to pare down, how would you do it? Do all the books count as one item, I hope, I hope? (3 running with scissors| be careful)
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
11:29 am	New mscancerchick up. A little chatting and a lot of gratitude. (be careful)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
9:40 am	While marveling over the historic moment last night, a friend and I realized afresh how arbitrary the distinction in question really is by musing on the query posed by the wise comic strip "Opus," to wit, is Obama a black man with a white mother or a white man with a black father? (1 running with scissors| be careful)
Friday, May 30th, 2008
4:02 pm	New mscancerchick up. Cancer and lots of it. Phooey. (be careful)