To my classmates' combined illnesses has finally worn down my immune system.

In place of a "real" entry, some links -

Friends in Dublin, go and run to see this, a forced-perspective painting of a huge crack in the ground. If I still lived there, I'd so be on a DART to Dun Laoghaire tomorrow. (hat-tip anysia)

If you haven't visited the dolphin rescue story, I highly recommend it. (It should be entered on lists as a proper unicorn chaser, innoculating the spirit against the multitude of horrors.) G'wan! You know it'll be good - how about a quote?

"One of the dolphins was really weak, and one of the young guys who had a survival suit on got into the water with it and stayed with it, and the dolphin just kind of wrapped his fins around him. . . . It was amazing."