I think Shelob is back.

I looked up at the light tonight because there was a lot of moth activity, and I hate letting moths in my apartment. I saw an orb spiderweb. Didn’t see much more, but we shall see if she’s returned.

I am far too tired to write any more. I stayed up late last night. And the night before. And the night before.

Can’t sleep in tomorrow. Hair appointment. Okay, I can sleep ’til nine or so. But that’s it.

You gotta love medical studies. Because they make no sense if you believe them all.

Newswise — High levels of daily stress appear to result in a lower risk of developing breast cancer for the first time, says a study in this week’s BMJ.

Stress? Got it covered, babe. But wait! What about high blood pressure and heart attacks due to stress?

But high stress may put women at risk of other serious illnesses warn the researchers, a team from Denmark.

Denmark? They studied Danes for stress levels? What kind of stress could they have in Denmark?

The findings follow an eighteen year study of over 6,500 women in Copenhagen. At the start of the study researchers asked the women what levels of stress they experienced routinely in their lives, and classified the results into low, medium and high levels. Stress was defined as tension, nervousness, impatience, anxiety, or sleeplessness. (Stress levels were not measured throughout the study.)

Did you catch that last sentence? Let me repeat it:

Stress levels were not measured throughout the study.

They started studying stress levels, then stopped. And they now say that high stress can lower breast cancer. On crappy data.

Medical studies. Ya gotta love ‘em.

I think I’ll just ignore the ones like this.

It’s raining bullets in Gaza.

In Gaza City, former security chief Moussa Arafat, assassinated earlier this week by dozens of gunmen, was given a military funeral. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was to eulogize the slain security chief, but remained in his compound when dozens of gunmen fired thousands of bullets in the air at the funeral procession outside his office.

That was buried within a story purportedly on the military dismantling bases in Gaza. So was this:

As part of Friday’s last-minute preparations for the pullout, Israel demolished a bridge leading to the now abandoned Jewish settlements and a liaison office at the main Israel-Gaza crossing point. By the end of the day, the army planned to have all its equipment out of the Gaza Strip.

Also Friday, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer said Washington expects Israel to dismantle unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts, in line with its obligations under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan.

“We still expect as a country that Israel is going to fill its commitment,” Kurtzer told Israel Radio.

Kurtzer, who is wrapping up a four-year term, noted that Israel has promised in writing to take down the outposts set up by settlers, in large part with government funding. “We have no reason to believe that Israel will try to evade its responsibility,” Kurtzer said.

What’s missing from these statements? Oh, yeah. A call for Abbas to disarm the terror groups that shot up Gaza yesterday.

Of course, if I had actually done these pictures over the weekend, I wouldn’t be up this late, waiting for them to finish printing.

What pictures? The pictures for the tri-fold display for the synagogue dinner tomorrow night. Those pictures.

I didn’t tell you about them? Oh. Well, that’s because I kept forgetting about them. Anyway, the last page is printing now, I think, and all I have to do is actually put them on the tri-fold, which I can’t do while Tig is awake. He seems to think it’s his cardboard to play with.

Perhaps I’ll do that on my lunch hour tomorrow.

Nah. I’ll finish it tonight.

Let this be a lesson to you: Don’t let me procrastinate.

Boy, am I going to be tired tomorrow.