Peony Moss: September 2006 Archives

How can it be October already?! (well, almost)

Busy around here. Hambet has not been expelled from kindergarten yet. I've added two more jobs to my resume: lunchroom monitor and Tooth Fairy.

Meanwhile, my dear husband has been looking at the hours in which Hambet's in school and clearing his throat. I'll be talking to a couple of temp agencies next week, but under the principle of You Never Know Unless You Ask, I thought I'd put out a bleg:

I'm looking for part-time work in Northern Virginia (western Fairfax County.) 10-16 hours a week, daytime, with flexibility for school pick-up and occasional lunch-lady chores. Work-from-home option would be fabulous.

Skills: Clear speaking voice and professional demeanor. Computer skills (Word, Access, Excel, some PowerPoint, blogging software *ahem*.) Medical terminology.

Thanks!

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed:

Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.

Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.

"Stingrays only sting in defence, they're not aggressive animals so the animal must have felt threatened. It didn't sting out of aggression, it stung out of fear," Dr Bryan Fry, Deputy Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne said....

Experts say that while painful, stingray venom is rarely lethal and it would have been the wound caused by the barb itself, which could measure up to 20cm long, which proved fatal.

"What happened to Steve Irwin is like being stabbed in the heart. It has little to do with the venom and all to do with the trauma caused by the barb of the stingray," Dr Geoff Isbister, a clinical toxicologist at the Mater Hospital in Newcastle, Australia, said.

This cries out for some kind of wry joke, probably a pun of some kind, but you'll have to read some other blog for that. I got nuthin.'

From the WaPo:

Stainton said Irwin's American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.