1. Write every day
2. Read a book every day
3. Go for a walk every day
4. Watch Martha Stewart every day
5. Watch Oprah every day

The cats are glad it's spring.
They shed fur like a bad habit
And puke joy.

• Ice Age Floods Institute
• Montana Natural History Center's Glacial Lake Missoula site
• "Sedimental Journey" -- my story of traveling the Ice Age floods path from Missoula to the Pacific Ocean

1. Where in Missoula has the best corned beef and cabbage?
2. Celtic or Keltic?
3. What's the most relaxing album you own?
4. Will you watch the Griz game on Saturday?
5. Is it spring yet?

1. Funniest blog post I've read in a while: Granny Insanity's explanation of the move to censure Bush for illegal wiretapping, "Are we clear on the censure thing?" (DO NOT click on this link if you are easily offended.)
2. Best news story of the day: Male drivers waste six million hours a year (because they won't ask for directions).
3. Fastest, easiest way to send giant files over the Internet: You Send It.
4. Most novel flavor sensation: Planter's Blue Diamond Wasabi and Soy Sauce Roasted Almonds and Diet Dr. Pepper.
5. Most intense photograph recently shot in Missoula and posted on Flickr by Chris Lombardi: "Not even once."

• Official UN International Women's Day site
• Retouch campaign -- Mesmerizing site that lets you compare the real woman with the cover model version. Every teenage girl needs to see this. So does every adult woman, man and teenage boy. Tip: Click "Retouch" and basically just be patient and keep clicking until the interactive tool loads.
  
• CODEPINK -- Women Say No To War
• NARAL Pro-Choice America -- Send a message to your governor.

1. Dirty Pretty Things -- Dark, clever, unconventional, suspenseful. With a happy ending, no less! (If you like seeing bad guys get what they deserve.)
2. What I Want My Words To Do To You -- Intense documentary filmed during writing workshops in a women's prison. Beautifully humanizes these women without minimizing the terrible crimes they've committed. Makes you realize, "There but for the grace of God go I."
   
3. My Life Without Me -- Poignant, quirky portrait of a young, working-class mother living life to the fullest in her last days.
4. The Notebook -- Breathtaking, heartwrenching, awe-inspiring romance. What more can I say?
   
5. Born Into Brothels -- Vivid documentary of India's poorest children given cameras to document their lives and, maybe, dream of something different.
6. Hotel Rwanda -- Grim yet surprisingly hopeful; documents the mass genocides in Rwanda, the shameful failure of the international community to intervene, and one man's determination to save lives.

1. Peach yogurt.
2. The five Aveda products that are giving me big hair (finally!).
3. Buds on the willow and cottonwood trees.
4. People who hug like they mean it.
5. Being at home.

Rather than remaining within the field of a discourse that upholds its privilege by inverting its content (speaking of catastrophe and no longer of progress), one can try another path: one can analyse the microbe-like, singular and plural practices which an urbanistic system was supposed to administer or suppress, but which have outlived its decay; one can following the swarming activity of these procedures that, far from being regulated or eliminated by panoptic administration, have reinforced themselves in a proliferating illegitimacy, developed and insinuated themselves into the networks of surveillance, and combined in accord with unreadable but stable tactics to the point of constituting everyday regulations and surreptitious creativities that are merely concealed by the frantic mechanisms and discourses of the observational organization.