bad news/good news, each of galactic proportions...

first, the bad news...

so, some folks who term themselves the "international astronomical union" have decided that pluto is too dinky to retain its status as a planet. what the?!?! i think i'll make a t-shirt to show that i protest this seemingly arbitrary declaration:

Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn't meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must ''clear the neighborhood around its orbit.'' That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.

and now, the good news...

i don't have brain tumors! i'm just a girl who gets seizures. and that, i can deal with. hooray!