Meh. Sill fighting the stupid cold. Will be glad when it is gone.

Talked to the one of the cops who went to New Orleans last night, and also to a lady whose husband has been down in Louisiana and Mississippi since Katrina hit, and will probably be down there for about two more months. He is a lineman for the big electric company in Detroit, and they sent down a lot of people and equipment to help get the power grid back up and running. Some amazing stories. The suffering of both people and their pets (the lineman has spent more time with the stray dogs than the people, since the people have been evacuated from the areas where he's been working) are just heartbreaking. 

Watched Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood this morning. It was OK, but the book was way way better (as is usually the case). The book got much more into the intricacies of the tangled love and horror and anger and pain in the three generations of abuse and cruelty. The movie only hints at the cruelty of the grandmother, which so strongly affected the mother and which helped turn her into a abuser herself.