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Okay, so I just got through reading all the new comments, and thank you all so much for getting back to me! I will address your questions quickly before I leave my desk for Memorial Day weekend, which I'm pretending is going to happen even though I have absolutely NO plans. That's right—I am the only person on the planet with NOTHING to do this weekend. I suspect the sugar gliders will get a good bit of attention, maybe more than they want.

1. As for indexing so that like posts are grouped together, this will be done in the next week. Great idea.
2. The links at right are to sites that I'm familiar with and organizations that I feel do good work. But I don't endorse any site's entire agenda. I just want everyone to have access to as many different mental health resources as possible.
3. The Liz-o-Meter is a genius idea. Again, next week I'll start that. You know, after my long weekend of NO barbecues and NO parties.
4. Peter, I am working on the Philly poem. It will most certainly include mention of the horrific stench of the city in the summer, a mix of urine, sewage and the anxious sweat of historically garbed "colonial" tour guides.
5. BBI (Boring But Important) came about in two ways. The first was that every time I suggested a so-called "serious" mental health topic to my editor, he'd say, "Hmm. That sounds like an important story." And I'd say, "Yeah, but a little boring, right?" And he'd say, "No, no, not necessarily," which means "Yes, yes, completely and totally." Then I discovered that The Week magazine has a feature called Boring But Important, and well, it just seemed right.

Have I answered most questions? I have to run and get my bathing suit now, so I can go to a pool party that NO ONE has invited me to.

Oh, and P.S., by sort-of request, here's another photo of Katie Holmes. Katie, I hope you're okay. Have a good Memorial Day with L. Ron and the crew.

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Have a great weekend! I have a just one more suggestion.

You don't list an email id, which would be invaluable if someone wanted to send you a link to a relevant site or story or something of the sort. Please do think about adding it to the blog.

Sorry for this spate of comments but I've been browsing though the archives.

One more suggestion: The blog takes a while to load, specially the pictures. Since it's hosted by your newspaper, maybe you could ask the tech people to look into it. I tried to access it from a couple of other places as well, and the results were the same. It takes longer as compared to sites of a similar kind.

ANd finally, here's another acronym, like the one you use (BBI): TBU - True But Useless!

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.