Ladies and Gentlemen! The World's Biggest WTF moment!

I'm not sure how many people watched the Casey Anthony trial since it started but I must say yesterday's verdict was the biggest WTF moment in history. And mind you this is just my opinion. I thought the Prosecuting team made great arguments, their experts were very informative and interesting to watch, and even thought they did a great job questioning witnesses and family members of "Tot mom."

I wasn't too fond of Jose Baez constantly attacking George Anthony consistently throughout the trial and even found it funny how he struggled trying to attack every piece of evidence brought into view as "Fantasy Forensics." And though I felt the juror's rushed the deliberation without even asking to review all the evidence and notes presented before them, their word is final.

But what irks me is what the jurors (those who actually spoke) based their decision on. Two of them were sick to their stomachs and one who solely believed George Anthony was the culprit (even after it was disproved) who murdered the child. And a fourth who refuse to speak to media unless they pay him.

This is sad and sickening at the same time, meanwhile across the courthouse in a small pub. The defense team lost all professionalism and decided to flip off people, taunt them, laugh and photographed on-lookers. So sad.

It's the End of the World -- seriously?

Okay, so I'm at work when I came across a news story about how a group believed today was going to mark the beginning of the "End of the World." I get home to talk with my boyfriend and he gets news that the Center for Disease Control is warning people to prepare for a "Zombie Apocalypse."

Seriously?

What is wrong with people. I know you're entitled to your own opinions, belief and etc., but to scare the population into thinking the Earth is just going to suddenly explode into a billion pieces and scatter throughout the galaxy and some how the dead will suddenly rise and become zombies ... is just plain wrong.

So my boyfriend, gametag: Blaze1x, and I, gamertag: YuffietheGreat, were sitting there weighing the millions of different possibilities that would warrant a zombie attack and ... well ... it was quiet an entertaining discussion. Because honestly. Having the PlayStation Network down for almost an entire month was the end of the world for me.

First of all, what are zombies? According to wikipedia a Zombie (Haitian Creole: zonbi; North Mbundu: nzumbe) is a term used to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli. Of voodoo (Vodun) origin, the word initially referred to a curse cast by sorcerers (or bokors) allowing them to take control of a person's mind, therefore affecting his or her actions. However, due to significant influence of Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo on witchcraft mythology, this meaning soon morphed into that of a human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead.

So ... real zombies are just entranced humans. They're not dead.

Second, if they are dead. Depending on the seriousness of their injuries at the time of death, what they died of or from ... how are they going to move around?

Third, how would they know who or what to eat. Someone going to give them a "Living Human Detector" and why brains? Aren't most of their teeth rotted out if they've been buried for a very long time? I would think baby food and jello would be on the top of their list. Besides, how are they going to even be able to crack open a hard skull to get the brain. That and when the living brain dies, most of the functions of a human body dies with it. How will the corpse even see where it's going?

But should Zombies begin walking the earth again and defy all logic. What is your zombie plan?

New book by my friend Shari Malin

Hey guys check out this new book by my friend Shari Richardson and then get your copy autographed by her at Irvin's Bookstore in York, Pennsylvania:

Learning inDesign

I must say I personally would have thought learning a new pagination program would go much smoother than it did last week. I was so overwhelmed and stressed out I couldn't believe how a program that was meant to be simple and easier for paginators could get the best of me.

The editor and publishers were so excited to see their first issue published using the new program that they hovered over us all day. Which I understand their excitement. I was excited too. Until the long laundry list of problems surfaced. My password would no longer work, I no longer had photoshop to tone the photos with and the controls are MUCH MUCH different than those used in QuarkExpress.

I was so focused on getting the pages done that I forgot to eat for two days. Nearly passing out on the third when they decided to let me have a day off. A much needed day to recover if you ask me. I slept through the first day off and half the second. Ate like a horse and now ... I'm sort of feeling a lot better but worried how the second week will go. Hopefully faster and less stressful.

A new year awaits

After struggling with unemployment for a year and finding a position with a small town daily newspaper it leaves me wondering what is waiting for me in the New Year. Although I must admit being the new girl during holiday production was a bit stressful but fun all the same. Hopefully this year will be productive and successful.