While you are waiting... waiting for your appointment, waiting to submit your dossier, doing your research.

Here are some interesting ways to pass time.

1. Read adoptionblogs.com blogs. I am 1 of 36 bloggers. And sometimes the bloggers interact with each other. So you can follow a thought through them. For example weight loss and the one blogger who refused to believe her scales were correct. :) Or right now a few are talking about why adoption blogs can feel negative.

2. Figure out how to view RSS feeds. This means you don't have to visit a web site to see if there is anything interesting there.



You can get RSS feeds for the adoptionblogs.com blogs and comments. Sometimes the comments are just as interesting/entertaining as the blogs. Look at the bottom right on adoptionblogs.com.

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If you use Firefox browser (my favorite), you can bookmark an RSS feed. You have to select "Manage Bookmarks" menu. Then select "File menu". Then select "New Live Bookmark" menu. It will show up in your bookmarks or Toolbar.



3. Google Image Labeler

You are matched up with a partner on the internet. You both look at the same picture and try to come up with labels for the picture. When the 2 of you match, you move onto another image.

You do this for 90 seconds. It is fast and came be fun. I matched 6 pictures once with a total stranger.

Stick to simple words like meeting, man, green, grass, cartoon.

4. Read about Urban Legends on Snopes. The stories that could almost be true and some are. But most are stories passed around via email.

Snopes also collects Weird News.

5. I like reality shows. I am not a huge fan and don't have to watch every episode (except for Project Runway). But I find reality shows entertaining.

I love the show recaps found at Television Without Pity and MS NBS's reality section.

And I like Reality Blurred weekly news digest.

6. I was going to stop at 5. But the Ig Nobel awards were recently given. More information can be found on the scientific humor journal Annals of Improbable Research.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early autumn — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."

From: Wikipedia Ig Noel Prize

My favorite winner this year invented a "teenager repellant".