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Sometimes my college awards honorary degrees to people I'm not fond of or for reasons that seem a bit silly to me.

This one, though, I can get behind fully. And I like the way the citation was written. :-)

ETA: Lest there should be any mistake, *none* of last year's honorary awards seemed to me to be puzzling, foolish, or anything other than worthy. And while the citation I linked to made me smile and nod, several of the others caused me to tear up. Really, if at the end of my life I can look back and feel that I have accomplished as much, even half as much as any one of those six, I shall feel entitled to be very proud indeed. :-)

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I frequently enjoy having a comfortable income, so I can live in a nice apartment, have a nice car to drive to work (even though I will try to take the Metro to work often this year), entertain myself and my friends, support three cats in the style to which they are accustomed, and don't have to worry about heat or food or if I can pay the doctrs' bills.

At times like this I'm also glad I have a comfortable income because it means I can donate generously to relief funds.

Everyone has their priorities and their needs and their choice of charities, and I'm not about to tell anyone what to do with their money or how. But if you're *trying* to think of someone to donate to to help with the disaster in Haiti, here is Charity Navigator's list of reputable organisations that are getting involved in relief in Haiti. There are also links to CN's tips for crisi giving and avoiding charity scams.

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The DVD I'm watching tonight has a preview for this movie. I HAVE to see it! Romance, battles, India--total coolness!

(It sounds as if it's about as accurate as any Hollywood movie ("The director has admitted that about 70% of the movie is based on his imagination." If only some US directors would admit as much....) but it still looks like huge fun! Aishwarya Rai--rawr! Massive armies, huge palaces, spectacle--yay!

Netflixed!

ETA: The movie I'm watching (which had the trailer for Jodhaa Akbar) is Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, which is proving to be a total kitsch gem. It's A Shot at Glory plus Bollywood, filmed in Brick Lane, with a touch of Mean Machine thrown in. The voice track is massively Hinglish, with Hindi sentences with English words thrown in and English sentences with a Hindi word or two stuck in.

I am imagining that I'm sharing the evening with my Dad. :-)