July 2009

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Thank you for stepping down, Sarah Palin.

Narcissistic personality disorder symptoms:

• Believing that you're better than others and/or deserve special treatment

• Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness

• Exaggerating your achievements or talents

• Expecting constant praise and admiration

• Believing that you're special

• Failing to recognize other people's emotions and feelings

• Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans

• Taking advantage of others

• Expressing disdain for those you feel are inferior

• Being jealous of others

• Believing that others are jealous of you

• Trouble keeping healthy relationships

• Setting unrealistic goals

• Being easily hurt and rejected

• Having a fragile self-esteem

• Appearing as tough-minded, intimidating or unemotional

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We took a $10 Chinatown NYC to Chinatown Philadelphia last week and stayed with our friend who teaches at the university.

I love Philly - what a fabulous city. This is one of the buildings I saw - it had the words "Boner 4Ever" written in huge letters down the side. Imagine that - spending all that time and effort to write "Boner 4Ever" on a building.

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On our way back, a torrential rainstorm came out of nowhere. It was one of the most intense storms I've ever seen... There were cars pulled over and cars stuck up to the windows in water.