2006-01-18

It's been a rough start to the new semester. I forget if I mentioned it, but at the eleventh hour my layoff was rescinded (three days before the layoff date and three days after being told definitively in an e-mail "There will be no work for you in the upcoming semester"). It has been madness ever since, madness I tell you. Let's just say that when I thought I'd be unemployed I agreed to volunteer teach women's studies to disadvantaged women two nights a week. Now I am teaching a full load, with a sociology course I've never taught before, as well as the volunteer teaching.

All this is just a longwinded way of saying that I have been in dire, dire need of some digital Valium lately, and last week I found it. For your viewing pleasure, I present to you the finest in internet cuteness:

• Cute Overload--my first introduction to Internet Cute, with lots of pictures of cute puppies and kittens and other fluffyheads
  
• Panda Fix--for when you need your daily panda fix
• cute pictures of unlikely animal friends
  
• penguins in little handknit sweaters (no lie--a combo of penguins and knitting, two of my favourite things). The rest of the blog (Adorablog) is also great.
  
• Just A Little Guy blog--hilariously foulmouthed commentary that accompanies adorable pictures of baby wild animals

You're welcome. Just don't say I didn't warn you--the pictures on these sites are sweet enough to make your teeth rot. But quite honestly, whenever I'm at my desk and feel my bile rising, I click on Cute Overload and I swear to God my blood pressure goes down.

Posted by polarcanuck at 9:10 p.m.

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