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[kismet09]

• Gerald Ford is president of the US


• The US celebrates its bicentennial, marking the 200th anniversary of its independence


• The Viking II sets down on Mars' Utopia Plains


• Promising, "I will never lie to you," Jimmy Carter is elected president of the United States


• Israeli commandos rescue hostages from Entebbe, Uganda


• The Concorde begins flights from New York to Europe


• George W. Bush is arrested and fined for driving under the influence of alcohol


• Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is invented by Seymour Cray


• Freddie Prinze Jr., Reese Witherspoon, Colin Farrell, 50 Cent, Fred Savage, and Shannon Elizabeth are born


• Cincinnati Reds win the World Series


• Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl X


• Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup


• Rocky is the top grossing film


• Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars


• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is published


• The Eagles Their Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum


• "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart spends the most time at the top of the US chart


• Charlie's Angels and The Muppet Show premiere

I didn't realize Colin Farrell was my age.

I don't have to work at table 1 today, which is exciting. It means I don't have to be nice to nearly as many people (chompyheather, when it's lunchtime, I will be at computer #45).

Every day walking into the library, I make mental note of the same book (Medieval Folklore, and I think I spelled that wrong). I've been looking for a similar visual landmark for my way out of the library, and I think I found it yesterday. The book is called "American Masculinities" (or something like that), but there's a library sticker over the 'e' so it reads "American Masculinitis." It makes me smile.