And the Winner Is...(Plus! Special Surprise Second Place Winner!)

Whoa. You guys really like lip gloss, don't you? I was blown away by the response, and of course, I needed to figure out how many righties and how many lefties had responded. Unfortunately, last night was NOT the best night for me to be doing complex calculations/tabulations of any kind, as I was having one of those evenings where I was, uh, totally stupid. Does that ever happen to you? Like, everything becomes difficult, and you can't type or speak without revealing yourself to be a Class-A Moron? To give you an idea of the extent of my idiocy, during a conversation with Heather B. last night (who was eating Swedish Fish candy at the time), I accidentally confused Sweden with Switzerland when discussing said candy. I'm not saying there's no such thing as Swiss Fish. I'm just saying that no one's ever heard of it.

Idiocy notwithstanding, I tallied up the results, calculated percentages (and picked a winner, of course) so all of this is a disclaimer in the event there's someone else out there who has too much time on their hands, decides to do their own calculations and finds a discrepancy. But the truth is, I'm pretty sure it's all accurate.

Now here's the part where I blind you with science:

Of the 136 comments that were left by 9 pm last night:

• 114 were righties

• 20 were lefties

• 2 abstained

Note: I based handedness on whether or not the commenter writes with that hand. I did count Andra (who was a lefty, but was born in a Communist country and was switched to become a righty) as a lefty, since genetically, she is one. I did NOT count Heather B. as one. (She claims in her comment that she was a lefty until age 6, when she was involved in a freak accident. She later told me said accident involved "a mountain lion and a man named Jose," whereupon I realized she was a filthy liar who has ALWAYS BEEN A RIGHTY. And eats Swedish Fish.)

That means that of the 134 who stated their handedness:

• 14.93% are lefties

• 85.07% are righties

What’s quite cool is that according to Wikipedia (I KNOW, but I’ll use it as a reliable source since it suits my needs right now), 87% of the world’s population is right-handed. And my percentages align almost perfectly with that, despite the fact that this is totally a random sampling of people. Hooray, science!

So now for the exciting part; the winner! I utilized an online random number generator, and the number it selected was... And if there was ever a time to redo my template to include a NUMBERED COMMENTS SECTION, boy, was it last night. But I painstakingly counted up to comment 91 (not once, not twice, but THRICE, just to make sure)--though my eyeballs were all but bleeding by this point--and saw that comment 91 belonged to...

Kat! Who, incidentally, is a righty! Congratulations, Kat!

But wait! There's more!

Seeing as the number of comments on this post blew my previous comment record away (and I have no idea what that is, I just know it's not 136+ comments), I decided that I'd pick a second winner to receive another prize: L'Occitane Verbena Soap; one of my favorite soaps EVER. Yes, it's beauty giveaway madness all up in this bitch! This time, the Randomizer selected.... Comment 24 belonged to...

Jennifer! Another righty! Congratulations, Jennifer! The surprise soap prize is yours!

(Winners, email me your addresses!)

In other news, I'm going to attempt to post MORE THAN ONCE this week, since I'm already hard at work on a Very Special Poem which may involve the Twilight series, and must be shared with the world. It had to be done; "vampire" has lots of rhyming possibilities, and I needed to take advantage of that opportunity, you know?