I’ll PayPal $5 to the first person who can identify the type of cactus I have. Here is a photo. I’ve done a few hours of research in Arizona stores and on the Internet, and I can’t find the breed. Even Wikipedia couldn’t help me. I’ll want some kind of reference I can check for more information (care, etc.). Online references are awesome, but I’m not scared of books. Hell, I’ll flesh out whatever Wikipedia page is relevent with a picture if I can just figure out what breed it is. Five dollars. For j00z.

I just had a wonderful trip to Arizona with WO to visit his family and see the sights. Wonderful. Arizona is nice and warm (relatively–the mornings were a bit chilly) and pretty. WO’s family is awesomely fun and funny and sweet and welcomed me with open arms.

While in Arizona, I went to a Unitarian Universalist (UU) showing of the film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices” at WO’s church. The website lists the movie as “Breathtaking,” “Mesmerizing,” and worth “Two thumbs up.” Honestly, I think the only person who found the movie “breathtaking” was this one lady in the congregation who gasped at every number thrown up on the screen. She was either asthmatic or had no idea that numbers could go above one thousand. As far as it being worth “two thumbs up,” I think the movie makers may have been putting those thumbs some place the sun doesn’t shine, because the movie is…

Or: A day for hating my apartment complex. So this morning I decide to get up and put in the relaxer my hair so desperately needs. (For those who don’t know what a relaxer is, think “perm”, but for straightening instead of making curly.) Relaxers have pretty strict ideas for how long they should be in. I typically leave a strong perm in for just over 20 minutes, which is just about the longest they suggest (for uber-nappy hair, although mine doesn’t really qualify as that). Fifteen minutes into the process–goop still in hair–just after I had rinsed my hands so I could start cleaning up the mess… the water…