Latin is a dead language,
As dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans,
And now it's killing me!

I KNOW, RIGHT? 

come and  spread your arms / if you really need a hug.

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... but i wish i could just translate things all the time.  there is no better way to get familiar with a piece of writing than to labor intensively over each word ( Read more... )

today i went to the faulkner county public library and interviewed jasmine for my grad school application.  thanks, jasmine!!  it was a whole new world, and it was amazing!  i forgot how fun it is to be in a new library.  it was big & bright & beautiful and i also remembered how happy i am to be going to library school.  i want to be in a library ( Read more... )

The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

The drunken politician leaps
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Young woman share your fire with me ( Read more... )

317. And according to the report of the messenger from the other world this was what the prophet said at the time: 'Even for the last comer, if he chooses wisely and will live diligently, there is appointed a happy and not undesirable existence. Let not him who chooses first be careless, and let not the last despair.' And when he had spoken, he who ( Read more... )

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