Unusual for me to like an American Idiot... there are so many around and I haven't seen one I've liked before. As you may guess, the radio played the new Green Day song repeatedly on my way to work.

My life must be very boring. I never feel as if I have anything to say. I really should be doing work right now, actually, but I'm desperately attempting to procrastinate. My boss has been on vacation in Europe for three weeks, and she comes back on Monday. I suspect my stress level will shoot through the roof. So, there has been work, sporadic ( Read more... )

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Ah. The cruel, cruel clock ticks. What I want is always for tomorrow, not today. What I want is always in the future. When I was younger, I would occasionally be overcome with the feeling that the world was a curtain, and that if I could just push it back and see the reality that lay behind it... If, and if, and if.

Oh, praise be to heaven, I so want to see this movie.

I like animals. Animals are great. All of the cats and dogs around my apartment complex are relaxing. They don't make me uncomfortable in the way that children and adults lounging around the courtyard do. Not that I hate people. But I'd much rather meet a Black Lab or Great Dane than a 30-something lawyer or (insert other description of a person ( Read more... )

Another work week down the drain. Only--god, is it 6:30 in the morning?--only 10-1/2 hours till the weekend. 10 hours, 29 minutes, 59 seconds. 10 hours, 29 minutes, 58 seconds...

I heard some guy on the radio this morning bring up that the abused Iraqi prisoners are criminals (murderers, he said, of course--I'm sure they're all murderers) as an argument that this abuse isn't "morally equivalent" to the terrorists who beheaded that poor American guy. (Geneva Convention notwithstanding, he said. You might as well say f*k the ( Read more... )

Yes, bunnies. Also, look for the link to The Exorcist.

I'm all for it, Brad.

Go, Nancy. Too bad it had to take a personal tradgedy to get on the right side of a major social issue.


I can't help having hope for the world when a team of surgeons will donate their time to help save a gorilla.


On the other hand, sometimes it's hard to have hope for the world.