Still cohabiting with the Bronchitis of Doom, alongside a really inconvenient bout of burnout. I'll get over both, but I'm no fun right now. Updates will be scarce for at least another week.

In the meantime:
* Shapely Prose has things to say about McCain's health care plan, including this:

McCain’s plan will defang the regulations that prevent employers from discriminating against fat people (or people with disabilities, or people with such hideous conditions as “irregular periods”) when they provide coverage, leaving millions of fat Americans at the mercy of an industry that would like nothing more than to deny them basic medical care while bullying them into unnecessary surgery. If you are a US voter and you are or have ever been fat — hell, if you’ve ever even been sick — and aren’t a gazillionaire with your own private doctor, this will affect you.

* Joanne has things to say about McCain's attitude toward planetariums.

Good things:
* Three poems by Greta Cabrel up at Clean Sheets: "Storm After Drought," "Letter," and "Coriander Vodka." (Note: Not work-safe.)
* Cooking a cute little eggplant a colleague handed to me out of the blue two days ago
* Prayer for Perspective will be included in an anthology of serenity prayers due out next spring
* Understanding friends, hot coffee, and international keyboards