reminder: laugh

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The U.K. newspaper *The Independent* reports that avid reader Mark Bastable consumed the collected works of D.H. Lawrence and found "not a single laugh, not a wry chuckle, not even a quiet grin in the entire po-faced oeuvre." If that's true, I say we put an asterisk on the covers of his books, similar to the mark that will go on the home run record of the allegedly steroid-enhanced baseball star Barry Bonds. In D.H.'s case, the asterisk will denote that he won a place in the literature hall of fame despite having never expressed the second-most essential human emotion. In any case, Virgo, don't you dare read Lawrence in the next four weeks. You need to be surrounded by influences that will encourage you to look for humor and amusement in every single thing you do.

2008 is gonna be great!

with a new year, comes new possibilities and new energy. i'm not gonna lie. 2007 was a hard year for me. not to say whether it was good or bad. it was just hard. a lot of transitions, changes and growth. as a virgo, i don't deal well with change. i quite dislike it as a matter of fact, but one major lesson learned last year is that change is the only thing that does consistently happen.

anyways, this year has started off fantastically and i only expect it to continue that way.