Ten minutes til the bus arrives

I have ten minutes until the bus gets here. I wanted to take a few minutes -- well ten minutes actually -- to post a blog in hopes of become addicted to this internet blog thing. So here goes. You can time me if you want. If it takes longer than ten minutes, please tell me to go catch the bus.

A blog commentator once said, "A blog is not a journal. You have people to entertain." . . . Interesting thought. You know, some journals are interesting. Like Curt Cobain's. The blog commentator is right though. Most journals aren't. So in order to leave you with something entertaining, I'm afraid I must appeal to a higher authority, at least for this blog. Perhaps at some future date I'll have the creativity and pizazz to leave blog readers undescribably entertained by a few witty comments. I'll keep my fingers crossed, but don't hold your breathe.

So for all you champs from cyberspace I leave you with perhaps my favorite website:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail127.html
Have fun.

My second blog

Today is wednesday. A friend of mine told me an interesting story over lunch today. Evidently back in the 70s, a 13 year old child was found that had locked in a room, isolated, for her entire life. It sparked my interest. I asked him what the girls name was and jotted it down on a napkin in hopes of learning more about it when I had some time to google the case. He told me her name was "Ginie" with an "i". It turned out to be "Genie" with an "e", so thanks for making me waste a good 15 minutes searching for the wrong name. Part of what was interesting was how this case related to human speech development. Also, I was curious as to what has happened to her since the 70s. Has she learned to talk? Has she recovered? Basically, I wanted to know what happened and how. I'm in the middle of reading a documentary on the case at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2112gchild.html
Check it out when you get a chance. It's a long read though, so make yourself comfortable.
That's it for today.

Saturday March 26th, 2005

Hey mom, I brought home some lemon cake. It's pretty delicious