I'm terrified that it's going to be September again in like two weeks. 

I'm terrified that time is passing quickly and I'm not making progress the way I want to.

I'll be in NYC from June 11th to the 16th.  Who wants to give me a dollar?

http://www.myspace.com/lightsupmusic

Check the music I've been working on lately!

I should never leave my headphones at home again. I feel like I own the world when I'm on the train to work with some fresh jams on.

This is what happened outside my window at work yesterday:



A bus hit a fire hydrant causing a geyser of water that went several stories high. I kind of wanted to run through it.

I love love these advertisements. They make me want to be all romantic n' shit.

The morning after we found her second lump, Marla hopped into the kitchen with both legs in one leg of her pantyhoes and said, "Look, I'm a mermaid."

Can't April last a few more days?

Listen to the girl as she takes on half the world.

Woodland dentist defends chest massages as appropriate procedure
By Hudson Sangree - Bee Staff Writer
Published 1:43 pm PDT Thursday, October 11, 2007


A prominent Woodland dentist suspected of groping more than two dozen female patients tried to keep his license Thursday by arguing chest massages were an appropriate procedure in certain cases.

Dr. Mark Anderson appeared at Thursday's hearing before a state administrative judge to defend himself against the state dental board's attempt to suspend his license pending resolution of the charges against him.

His lawyer, Robert Zaro, told Judge Jonathan Lew that articles from dental journals discussed the need to "palpate" the pectoral muscles in cases of temporal mandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, a common jaw problem that can cause head and neck pain.

The chest muscles -- and perhaps even the calf muscles -- may be related to the disorder, Zaro said.

Zaro also urged the judge to consider allowing Anderson to return to his practice with two "chaperones," individuals who would shadow Anderson at his dental practice to make sure he does not inappropriately touch his patients.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Phillips argued Anderson represented a danger to the public and should not be allowed to practice.

He said Anderson had manipulated even his dental assistants so that they were either blind to his behavior or believed it to be acceptable.

A number of them submitted statements to the court saying they had never seen Anderson do anything wrong, the lawyer said.

At the end of Thursday's hearing, Lew said he would make a decision by Monday.

In addition to the administrative proceeding, Anderson faces two misdemeanor charges of battery and sexual battery, based on one woman's statements that he had reached into her shirt and touched her breasts.

The woman is also suing him.

Woodland police say 26 other women have come forward. The Yolo County District Attorney's office is investigating those cases and could file additional charges.

Anderson remains free on $10,000 bail.

"Time: the whisper beneath that word is death . . . beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true--anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other--beneath the face of the beloved, however ancient, ruined, and scarred, is the face of the baby your love once was, and will always be, for you. Love serves, then, if memory doesn't, and passion, apart from its tense relation to agony, labors beneath the shadow of death. Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, brink your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone."

-James Baldwin

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