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I get tested for a variety of things regularly, on principle. On the list is Hepatitis (note: please don't read too much into my proclivities on this one - they test for it, so I go get tested).

However, even at a cheap testing location, it looks like long-term I'll be much better served by just going and getting the vaccine for it - I don't know what the vaccine costs, but the testing gets expensive at once a year or once per six months. Besides, hey, being immune has several additional advantages in terms of giving status. It just seems like a good idea.

I know there are Hepatitis A & B vaccines out there, recommended for health professionals and/or travellers. Anybody know a good location to go get vaccinated? This seems like it would be of fairly broad interest in several of my communities...

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From final_girl:

A step beyond Tofurkey...

If it's almost Wednesday, maybe it might almost be Brezsny...

This week, Rob says:

A young goth woman was weaving her bicycle through heavy traffic. She was talking on a cell phone with her left hand and smoking a cigarette with her right. Watching from my Honda, I marveled at how well she maneuvered without the guiding influence of her hands on the handlebars. I stopped next to her at a red light, and was further impressed when she pulled out a candy bar and a small book of poems by Charles Baudelaire. For a minute or so, she smoked, ate, read, and chatted on her phone. Just before the light changed, I leaned out the window and said, "You're not a Gemini, are you?" "Yeah," she replied. "Of course. How did you know?" I knew because not only are you the zodiac's best multitasker, you're also at the very peak of your ability to do five things at once.

I think this one may be aimed at some other Gemini. Not sure where it's relevant to my life this week.

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Doug Hofstadter wrote a lovely paper satirizing the English language and some of its uses of words that I hadn't read until today.

Stolen from rosefox.