• Work permit drama – gah! When you hear "we've never seen this before" from big company, it's not a good sign. Eep! #
• Great example of reaching out to potential customers via twitter – http://bit.ly/bDnd8M /via @tgrevatt /by @davefleet #
• This is funny – comparing @google suggest results – Web Seer – http://bit.ly/apAtyf /via @ElleLaMode #
• Barbie Eat A Sandwich – awesome vid too! http://bit.ly/31Htp6 /via @RachelleGendron #
• Making notes about what @uOttawaWISE has done this year – to summarize, "we've been really awesome despite having no money, yo" #
• Yay just made 5 more loans on @kiva – all from repaid funds! Bringing me up to 32 loans in total! Awesome! #
• How do I make this suck less?!?!? Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Gah. #
• Wake up sobbing "I don't want to" – not a sign it's going to be a good day. When can I go back to bed? #
• Incidentally, I'm in this position because engineers without borders flaked. So apparently they do have some limitations. #
• Talk done. My bit wasn't a disaster at least. Now what's the earliest acceptable time that I can go to bed? #
• Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college – http://bit.ly/dlJbx1 /cc @thecodefactory @ckdarby #
• Leadership, balance, and ambition – interesting read from @kgreg06 – http://bit.ly/dyVI35 #
• The baby panic – critique of Hewitt's book – great read, insight on feminism and "having it all" – http://is.gd/bMYZQ #
• Getting really lovely comments on my latest blog post – recovering my balance and doing less – http://bit.ly/cgIkSR #
• Off to Seattle this arvo to hang out with my favourite @douglasgresham. Must pack! And clean! Arrrgghhh! #
• So confused by air Canada prestige thing. I can go to the good check in, but my upgrade certs need red not blue. What do the blue ones do? #
• Oh no oh no oh no… I didn't preregister :,( #
• Oh no I'm going to be detained and questioned. And where's my luggage? I'm doing worse at flying than @isfalk. Cue tears from Cate! #
• Yay no questioning! Last time I preregistered and didn't need to still good. Nice border agent too! Luggage showed up – things looking up! #
• Made it to Seattle. Have luggage but only Canadian money and my cellphone is not working for some reason… Oops! #
• So @douglasgresham didn't abandon me at the airport yesterday, I just ran away as he got there. Lesson: don't say you "might" pick me up! #
• Had a lovely day in Seattle with darling @douglasgresham! Saw the original starbucks and the space needle. So glad to have got away! #
• Thanks to @douglasgresham my CV will be sent to potential employers. I would totally interview me. Or think I was exaggerating. Something. #
• Mornings shopping and i'm all kitted out for internship. Just need some more shoes… #
• Oh no! Rollerblades are US size 4 rather than UK size 4 :'( thankfully @zappos has a great return policy! #

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• Finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book "Committed" – charming and personal book, rational and skeptical but ultimately hopeful. #
• Reading Women Don't Ask, which is like a bucket of water to the head. Need to rethink approach to many things! #
• We have our 10th trustee for @awesomeottawa! This is GO GO GO! #imsoexcitedijustcanthideit #
• Just decided to go to Seattle for my birthday and booked a trip there. I'll get to hang out with my special @douglasgresham! Yay! #
• Funny! What *really* happens after you save the princess – http://j.mp/9693ip /via @skrud @gailcarmichael #
• I Love Love Love being a girl – being an emotional creature, and Eve Ensler's Ted Talk – http://bit.ly/dlad1u #
• Guy outside church with "free" Gatorade bings new depth to the expression "don't drink the cool aid". #
• Marking is soul destroying. Starting with someone who didn't bother, and in 20 mins in I've lost all hope for future of compsci. New low. #
• Marked one assignment, guy did such a terrible job I lost the will to live. 2nd one – doesn't compile. *bangs head against table* #
• Moving on to no. 3 – handed in previous assignment. I don't know why, they didn't do well at that one, either… #
• No. 4 – doesn't compile. None of these are my students, btw. Either they are smarter or wouldn't dare torment me so! *sobs* #
• IDE crashed. Theory: like me it objects to this terrible code. Wondering if "your code made me cry and broke Eclipse" appropriate feedback? #
• Checking out @google's gvt request tracker, unfortunately no data for China as yet! http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ #
• Done marking! And the students from my DGD were **much** better than the others. Wonder if it was my repeatedly bugging them to start early! #
• Fedex is no longer even giving me an ETA for my package, which is still in Stansted :'( stupid volcano. Stupid Gordon Brown. #
• Bank: "why don't you just pop in to a branch", me, hysterically: "I LIVE IN CANADA I LIVE IN CANADA I CAN'T COME INTO A BRANCH" – gaaaaaaah! #
• Yay my content is all up for workshop tomorrow! Bit nervous – wish me luck Twitterverse! http://catehuston.com/workshop/ #
• Whenever I'm nervous, I sleep so bady I end up feeling I was awake all night. Hopefully all my TAs turn up! Eep! #
• So I've been asked to give a 45-60 min talk, in French, on Tuesday. They're offering $50. Seriously!!! #
• Workshop going well! Yay! #
• Zonked! BUT workshop was a huge success, great reviews and the TAs were awesome. What was I worrying about?! #
• So I'm presenting in french on Tuesday morning. Eep. Relaxing break after? Starting to think it will never happen! #
• Canadian are so nice mostly, if I leave it will be due to grocery stores, cellphones and … Banks. #
• At YOW waiting for my favorite @douglasgresham! Eeeeeeeeeee!!!!! #
• Oh the sake, it burns! #
• Taking @douglasgresham to @opendataottawa this arvo! Quite excited! #
• Hacking heat maps with @douglasgresham at #opendataottawa #
• Yay we have all bus stops in ottawa displaying on a heat map! Finally coming together! #opendataottawa #
• Have reactivated Facebook, given that I never got anyone's contact details before leaving it. @smiffy has a smarter strategy! #
• Wow this is a new way to advertise! Really personalized from uniqlo – http://bit.ly/9AFXcF #
• Amazing what can be predicted with enough data – http://bit.ly/bJ6Tdc #
• Recapping my holiday science lecture on Tuesday, but feeling distinctly uninspired :'( http://catehuston.com/holsci.html #

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• Nooooo finally found a hairdresser I’m happy with and she’s moving to Alberta! #
• So 80 minute exam took me 25 minutes. A new personal best. I guess we’ll see if that’s a good sign or not! #
• Sad but true: I’m really looking forward to the upcoming uk election. Bye bye pm potato head! So much for saving the world, idiot. #
• Unimpressed by someone trying to reschedule an interview with about 90 minutes notice. Urgh. Hiring is HARD! #
• Don’t bother changing your password, it’s a waste of time – http://bit.ly/c4NQzx #
• It’s my birthday next month, hint hint! Make a girl happy with ubuntu pre-installed – http://bit.ly/a6i3NM /via @terriko #
• Mmm 12 hour sleeping! Bit lost as to what to do today given I can’t type and am out of episodes of brothers and sisters to watch… #
• I can’t wait to escape from grad school, the disjoint between education and the real world is driving me crazy – http://bit.ly/b5dvZy #
• Interesting perspective from on “suppressing our girl cells” by @kgreg06 – http://bit.ly/9vcSyr #
• We have our 9th confirmed board member for @AwesomeOttawa! Also #FF to our amazing dean of awesome, @theCodeFactory! #
• Working on paper about difficulties testing code that relies on external online APIs (like Twitter) – what issues have you run into? #
• Should we rethink making communication information available? Study Hacks – http://bit.ly/cImSmY #
• Why so few women in silicon valley? http://nyti.ms/9OZU1R #
• Watching too many tv shows makes me want to fall in love again. #
• It is not natural for me to be awake at this time on a Sunday. #
• Fascinating – Materialistic people liked less by peers than ‘experiential’ people: http://bit.ly/cpI9Ke /via @ScienceDaily @russhans #
• Feeling really crappy after finding out a “friend” had been discussing me behind my back. So fed up of… everything, atm. #
• When did my life turn into a game of telephone?! Huge mess that I do not have the energy to deal with right now. Cate out. #

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• Fascinating – women leave eng. due to pay and promotion – http://bit.ly/9iFdPx /via @pinemud #
• Heading to the gym. Trying to make better choices after the pathetic hash I made of last week. Have a good one, y'all! #
• If you're an informatics edinburgh grad check out @EdInfAlumni/informaticsalumni #
• My office mate totally just tried to kill me. Why would he do such a thing? #peanutallergy #
• So true – univ students can't code, having a hard time finding qualified TAs for my workshop – http://bit.ly/dvyH6B /via @gailcarmichael #
• slow down and keep going http://bit.ly/9ASl0c /via @jeffreyftang /by @heyamberrae #
• Urgh I think I'm actually sick rather than just lazy at the moment. Been feeling quite terrible all day and especially this evening :,( #
• Apt – Twitter (n): a web-based tool to help you see which of your friends are procrastinating. /via @hypatiadotca @gvwilson #
• I <3 processing, made a little pacman game in less than an hour whilst multitasking. Nice example of 2d array, random numbers + keyboard 🙂 #
• I'm interviewing people for TA positions today. Eep! Will check they can all generate random numbers after obnoxious idiot in the summer. #
• Yay I have 2 TAs that know their stuff! Still need more so if you're a strong java programmer with some knowlege of swing I need you! #
• Want to make Ottawa more awesome? Get on the board of awesome foundation Ottawa! 1830h @thecodefactory! #
• In my windowless office on a sunny Saturday afternoon, revising. Tell me life gets better than this. #
• Awesome foundation Ottawa is on twitter – @AwesomeOttawa! Stay posted, we've got big plans and will announce first grant VERY SOON! #
• Trying to revise for exam, writing 10 lines caused my hand to cramp. At least I still remember how to? I never write anything anymore! #
• Yet another email from Mark Kelly at uOttawa. Even crazier than the last one. Stop spamming us, weirdo! #

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• Finally inspired re creating processing workshop. Now much time to teach, so going to make it "activity based" – inspired by don norman. #
• We procrastinate when we've forgotten who we are – http://inboxzero.tumblr.com/post/201133278 #
• Tips from @lemire on how to write better paper. Pass along to other grad students! http://bit.ly/992stS /via @jliyi @mikiobraun #
• Making grannies Solar Engineers – great quote "men are untrainable" – lol! http://bit.ly/cdTIOO /via @dgou #
• Tonight: solving the worlds problems with a liberal application of spicy mayo and British comedy. Or at least improving my perception! #
• I'd heard CERN was going to end the world today, but unfortunately not in time for me to not have to get up. Huh! #
• My guest post for @thecodefactory on making Ottawa more awesome! http://bit.ly/abbzTS #
• Necessary reminder – At the end of every computer is a real person – http://bit.ly/ajTnHQ /via @jeffreyftang @jasonfried @sivers #
• Playing fetch with my roomba and I haven't even cracked open the rum yet. Wild Wednesday night. #whathappenedmylifeusedtobemoreexciting #
• I think I found my dream home. I wonder if it floats too… http://bit.ly/dCGM7K /via @emdaniels #
• Dear _, I hate email. If you email me asking me for something whilst spelling my name wrong my policy is not to respond. Have a crappy day. #
• Interested in being on the board of awesome? Meetup @thecodefactory Thursday April 8th at 1830h. Pls RT! #
• Still haven't heard about Awesome Foundation Ottawa? Check out http://bit.ly/cd2YkS and http://bit.ly/abbzTS #
• Enjoyed this from @kgreg06 this morning – women and their propensity to plan, trying to find balance – http://bit.ly/a5W8DL #
• Ohhh these tiny bunnies are the cutest! I want one – or three! http://tumblr.com/xkz84tud7 /via @pixie658 #
• Great TED talk – what adults can learn from kids – http://bit.ly/9UHEup /via @tseelig @limedsgn #
• Inspiring – girls get involved with FOSS like @lhawthorn and @webchick! http://tr.im/Ue4m /via @terriko @claudinec #
• I think someone just tried to pick me up. Creepy rather than an ego boost. Eep. That's it I'm not trying to return calls any more! #
• I keep having strange dreams about chickens lately. I wonder if it's related to my newfound affection for red wine. #
• Are we focusing on the wrong things when we try to make ourselves happy? http://nyti.ms/aUFgCc /via @tseelig #
• Wonderful BBQ with @krusk @tgrevatt and @spoonsie – v good for current morale 🙂 #

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• Being a bit of a nomad was fine at the time, it's now I have forms to fill in listing where I've lived that it's a problem. #
• I think my subconscious is having a nervous breakdown. #
• The guy behind me in class is sleeping. I can't stop staring at him, wondering if he'll start snoring! That would be hilarious. #
• Unexplained NPE's thrown by libraries that don't include source code make me sad. Have spent way too much time on this and getting NOWHERE! #
• Interested in being part of Awesome Foundation Ottawa? – http://bit.ly/cd2YkS pls RT #
• Who is this Ann Coulter and why does she have such great hair? #
• Yes this Ann Coulter does sound quite horrible! Why is she talking at UO? Thanks to everyone who respond – @gordbot @pinemud @chris_saunders #
• Awesome Foundation Ottawa – do you want to be on the "Board of Awesome"? http://bit.ly/cd2YkS #
• I <3 the woman at the clinique counter. She came up with a plan to save my skin from my subconscious having a nervous breakdown. #
• In case you missed it yesterday – my plan for making Ottawa More Awesome, and how you can get involved! http://bit.ly/cd2YkS #
• Post I co-wrote with @douglasgresham, seems appropriate on Ada Lovelace day – What Makes a Programmer Great? http://bit.ly/b64App #
• My paper got rejected :'( comments featured questions I'd asked and got no response to. Thoroughly dejected and discouraged :'( #
• At kickboxing, I did impersonations of the christian/nympho/stripper-turned-housewife whilst practising how to kick someone in the head. #
• (she was extremely annoying -it seemed appropriate) #
• Interesting and hopefully useful – how to turn a no into a yes – http://bit.ly/ckEniU /via @mypromotion #
• You can’t handle the truth (ranking drugs) http://bit.ly/bkFx5u #drugs #health /via @dgou @WeAreGeek #
• Hi Thursday. Could you not suck as much as yesterday please? Need to focus on The Plan. #
• My (slightly late) post for Ada Lovelace day – http://bit.ly/byInY0 #
• I'm making a choice to ask for what I deserve. To crack on and work for what I want. I think (hope) this is the start of something better. #
• Trying out this testing with mock objects malarky. #
• Dear mock object, what one earth does that error message mean? You're extremely annoying and not even real! Grr! #intestinghell #
• Exciting news, the famous @jonskeet visited my blog for mine and @douglasgresham's post. And Dig isn't a robot he's a http://bit.ly/11bicG #
• Loving this on "the cult of busy" by @berkun – thanks @sachac! http://bit.ly/9MHaCi #
• I'm taking a pole dancing class tomorrow. V exciting. That's what's lacking in my life lately, being upside down spinning around a pole. #
• Microwave cooking for one – subtitle should be "making you feel even lonelier and more pathetic" – http://bit.ly/ari7ns /via @thecodefactory #
• pole dancing is awesome – got to be upside down. No spinning upsidedown tho which is reason enough to go again. Have huge bruise as memento. #

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• I'm a little late to Monday… Morning all! #
• Wooo we have funding for a WISE conference and I've been very kindly told I can take the day off from internship! Yay! #
• Why Nerds are unpopular, or why high-school is unnatural and like prison – http://bit.ly/bR0DvJ /via @tgrevatt @ToughLoveforX @dmlComp #
• Great insight into privacy and the #buzz debacle as always – worth reading from @zephoria – http://bit.ly/cZUG0q #
• Cate vs. DBUnit + Derby – round one. #
• Thinking about flow and deliberate practice – http://bit.ly/ak7TJe #
• This database nonsense is kicking my ass. Simultaneously getting errors saying a table does, and does not exist. Gah! #
• Still being tormented by Schrödinger's table. I think I've proved it exists, but then why can't I delete it? *sobs* #
• Great quotes about the necessity of failing in order to succeed – http://bit.ly/acDBRM #
• I'm going to have to work out this tax nonsense. Between my scholarship getting cut and seemingly the tax man, I'm not doing great. #
• Love this – read and take note! 10 Pieces of Advice that I Should Have Given Myself in My Twenties. http://bit.ly/d3Fu3l
  /via @pixie658 #
• This is terrifying – baby preachers! http://tinyurl.com/ygw33d7 /via @jeffparks #
• My friend @douglasgresham and I are experimenting with co-posting. It's been a fun evening! See the results Friday 🙂 #
• What is the deal with this crazy lady saying blogging is for guys? I bet when her dead tree press job ends she'll change her mind. #
• Been thinking about pitch for teamcamp! Eep! Bit nervous! #
• I think my pitch went well… Expect more news on tuesday! It's exciting! #
• Abandoning this weeks list and marking whilst watching Did You Hear About the Morgans. Hope your Friday arvo is more fun! #
• We're having a BBQ tomorrow night, 6pm! DM me for deets if you want to come! #
• I hate it when students code doesn't compile. Grrr! (Yes I'm marking. Yes I'm despairing about the future of Software Eng.) #
• Incredibly depressing to be marking an assignment where I'm sure I'm expending more time and energy marking than they did to write it. #
• We're having a BBQ tonight at 6! If you want to come, DM me for address/phone number/etc 🙂 #
• I'm a little concerned that whenever I give @ckdarby any information he says he feels like a stalker. Would you be worried? 😉 #
• There's a religious nymphomaniac ex stripper in my apartment. Which is pretty much as weird as you'd imagine. #
• Found religious nympho stripper-turned-housewife was not as entertaining as would have hoped. Self-obsessed and tedious. Boys don't agree… #
• I think Americans are about to have healthcare! WOW! Welcome to 2010 and congrats on your new+improved social conscience America! #

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• Wooo students gave me great evaluations! Yay! V happy 🙂 #
• Sunset skiing! Yay! #
• Gah! Locked out of office and girl wants to meet at 2nd cup. I hate 2nd cup. #
• Plotting something… Hope it goes well! #
• I'm having a sucky day. Why does everything seem to fall apart when I'm locked out of my office with no laptop or iphone chargers? Gah! #
• If busy is the new fine, I'm not OK – http://bit.ly/cvHQ3p #
• Survived trip to IBM kanata. Which btw is completely unmarked. #
• Just made 5 more loans on @kiva, bringing me to a total of 27! Helping people in developing countries grow their business, $25 at a time 🙂 #
• So on Saturday I'm offering free ski lessons – last opportunity for those of you who've indicated you want one! Let me know 🙂 #
• Today I leaned that a "pickle" is a pickled cucumber. I totally did not know that. Also, I have to go camping for @extremeblue. Eep! #
• Last Inspiring Women event for @uOttawaWISE ended in tears… as I said goodbye and received flowers and lovely card. So touched! #
• Good post on "busyness" – http://bit.ly/c9nhkY – via @jovanevery #
• Inspiring read! 10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein – http://bit.ly/cOZHa8 #
• Our last inspiring women event for @uottawawise made me think about endings and beginnings – thanks guys! http://bit.ly/awd3th #
• This is so adorable – girls wants to put code on her boyf's bday cake! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2420689/ /via @klmr @GergelyOrosz #
• How the telegraph was going to destroy newspapers, compare to internet today – http://bit.ly/d0Po5p /cc @caitlinkealey #
• Why did I agree to go to Kanata tomorrow morning, leaving at 730am? I must have done something terrible to end up in Kanata twice in a week. #
• I'm probably offending people who live in Kanata, but it's OK. Think it's where people go to die so it's likely I'll never see them again. #
• At religious school with bunch of chemicals. #
• Having dull time in kanata. As I'm not a proper scientist I'm not allowed to do anything but nor am I allowed to just hang out at the back. #
• Tedious day. Fed up of this week. Going to bed before it gets worse. #
• I just ousted @nancykenny as the mayor of Yummy Sushi on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/cxL8Ha #
• If compscis aren't scientists, or engineers – what are we? http://bit.ly/dqOTwW #
• I just became the mayor of Mandarin Ogilvie Restaurant on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/d1xH3i #
• Pet hobo has gained 5 pounds in 4 days. A new personal best? Oh dear. #

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• Why, in small child vs Cate, does the small child always win? Shoulder in so much pain this morning. Must go get massage. #
• I really loathe 2nd cup. Tried to get an extra cup of hot water for extra teabag they insist on giving me, ended up with 2 teabags. Gah! #
• Hmm there's another paper deadline next Wednesday. Can I do it? Thinking about giving it a shot… #
• Not only is adobe's flex unusable and generally appalling software, it's completely f*cked my eclipse installation. Grr! #
• 13 tips to be a better developer feat. testing, having a life, not rushing – http://bit.ly/b0J4aV /via @GergelyOrosz /by @ochronus #
• Great advice – "Don't Balance. Blend!" – http://bit.ly/9ful8J /by @mypromotion #
• Boyf bought me a sweet potato earlier, managed to lose it in block back to our apt. Caused a bit of a meltdown. Tired+hungry+stressed = :'( #
• Unit testing achievements! http://is.gd/9xaHY /via @ddej #
• CodeCover keeps crashing my eclipse installation+instead of going for a well designed test suite I'm trying to get 100% coverage. Bad Cate. #
• I quit facebook this morning. But, now I want to log on to see if anyone noticed… #
• Now I have good coverage, am pointing out that the class is poorly designed and should be immutable. Thank you, Effective Java! 🙂 #
• Students have discovered that I can't follow what they're saying when they speak broad québécois. And they're finding it a bit too amusant! #
• Urgh I have to use TTCN on a really trivial class, this just makes no sense. Daft assignment-I learned something, not so much about testing. #
• "Now pick up a functional skill and help build it your damn self." – http://bit.ly/bo2nXv – /by @37signals via @jeffreyftang #
• Liking this from @sachac – thoughts on using the world "just" to self depreciate – http://bit.ly/bYVfSe #
• Oh no! Joel on Software is being retired :'( http://bit.ly/9Jhu3m #
• Just saw the most terrible set of test cases ever. I mean they wrote them, but they may as well not have. Marking is so depressing. #
• I just got an email starting "Hi Cate" and then referring to me as "Kate" later on. I know, four letters. It's hard. #
• Awesome video – OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – http://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w /via @snookca #
• I will not kickbox until I have full movement back in shoulder. I will not lockbox until I have full movement back in shoulder. I will not.. #
• #1 task today – finish marking. Yes, I'm going to be grumpy and depressed about the future of software development. #
• I need to get a complete list of someone's followers and their info with API constraints. Is there an app for that? #
• Why I quit facebook, y'all – "Man in the Box – Facebook Abuse" http://tinyurl.com/yzqzz52 /via @jeffparks #
• Great article on how being intelligent isn't enough – you have to work hard (and fail) – http://ur1.ca/od04 /via @terriko by @maxklein #
• Awesome time at #ggdinner I won something! So exciting 🙂 #
• Saying no – trying to balance taking opportunities with acting on imagined obligations – http://bit.ly/bf7uDv #
• Goodlife online timetables are not very navigatable! Why not just have google calendars that I can subscribe to? #
• Seth's blog today – http://bit.ly/cBUudm – let's finally graduate high school? #
• Friday night pho! Who's in? #
• Friend re my opinion of his hair: "you're in a relationship. Your opinion doesn't count" #
• I'm taking today off! Any suggestions as to what i should do? Go skiing? Read a book? Go back to bed? #
• Loving this from @sachac – on finding your passion, and not worrying about being behind in achievements – http://bit.ly/bxzXWN #
• Having a rooftop BBQ. Is it really march? #
• Wonderful – Data + Art: An exhibition exploring art and science in the age of information. http://j.mp/19WFLq /via @jliyi @dataspora #
• This is cool, what other ways could we visualize? Piano music on a logarithmic spiral – http://bit.ly/dlqVpc /via @dgou @justinvincent #
• This TED presentation by Clifford Stoll is completely bonkers, but full of energy and thought provoking – http://bit.ly/nWNwA #
• I have done *nothing* productive this weekend and it feels great! Normal service should resume tomorrow 🙂 #

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