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They took my grandfather off dialysis last night. We're heading up to Georgia tomorrow.

I don't know if I'll be back in time for next week's classes. Just in time for all my papers to be due.

Funny, I'm not worried about work at all. I don't know why I expect less from my professors than I do from my employers. Especially when one of those employers is a corporation.

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gakked from adventurat

Go to Wikipedia and find your birthday, and then list in your journal:
1 death
2 births
3 fun facts

October 6

Death:
1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918) (I knew that. That's my birthday.)

Birth:
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

Events:
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1945 - Baseball: Bill Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns