RIGHT NOW I FEEL AS JOYFUL as if I'd drunk a whole bottle of champagne. (Actually, I'd be unconscious if I'd done that.) I have been offline for two days because my cable connection wasn't working. Thanks to the Comcast guy, who was just here and figured out what was wrong, I can now get on the Internet again! I've been fuming for two days, thinking, "George Bush just appointed the most confrontational man in his entire administration to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N., after telling European leaders how warm and fuzzy the trans-Atlantic relationship was going to be now," AND I CAN'T EVEN POST ABOUT IT!

Oh yeah, I'm addicted.