The last few days have been interesting.  I've kinda been all over the place.

I have so much creative energy right now that it's overwhelming.  I blame my novel...but I keep wanting to get sidetracked with all these other projects; it's amazing.  I'm trying to write them down and save them for later.  I bought a reed the other day and started ( Read more... )

I volunteered for the Saw-Whet Owl banding project last night.  They are adorable, the smallest owls in North America.  I got to hold a Saw-Whet!  And release it (I have only done that twice, but releasing a bird is one of the best highs ever...ask anyone that's done it.)  We only caught two, and stayed out longer than I'd hoped (1:30am), and it ( Read more... )

Halloween weekend was lots of fun.  First there was an unexpected lunch with Paige, then a party at Steph Simon's, complete with pumpkin decorating (mine is a cat, happily sitting outside our door) and costume contest (Kaleb as Puss in Boots won, yay for Nicole's awesome sewing prowess) and the Peanuts Halloween movie, which I don't remember as ( Read more... )

Apparently my guess about iron was right, because 4 days into the supplements and I'm feeling much better.  It's quite the relief.  It's amazing how much one stupid vitamin can mess you up if you don't get enough ( Read more... )

So I have reason to believe that my complete lack of anything resembling energy lately is not so much due to stress as I thought (and which probably doesn't help) but might be an iron deficiency.  So I'm taking iron supplements now.  This had better help.  Although interestingly, most of the ones I saw were over the Tolerable Upper Level Intake.  ( Read more... )

So apparently the military has launched a Human Terrain Project which is aimed an understanding Iraqi culture, societies, and attitudes...and facing harsh critism and having a hard time getting anthropologists to do it, and many professional societies have signed petitions of non-participation.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042090.stm

Now, ( Read more... )

Apparently's Equador's goverment is going through some radical  changes.

They are soon to vote for a new constiuent assembly, and, "Among the candidates are several former beauty queens, a long-haired monk who walks the streets urging voters to take from the rich and a masked crime fighter known as The Punisher who says his face is covered because he ( Read more... )

(Preface: If you haven't heard of the Jena 6, go read a newspaper, or lacking that, facebook it, as there's a giant group committed to the cause ( Read more... )

Why does everything have to be on Tuesday?!  (And to a lesser extent Wednesday.)

And why am I just now discovering so much that I wish I'd known about at least a year ago?

So I went to my first ever home IU sporting event, being the football game on Saturday, which we won 55-7 against ISU.  I felt like such a freshman (not in a bad way).  It was the opener so there were supposed to be fireworks (yay!), but after a slow, 2 hour first half, at 10pm, we left and got freezees to parch the thirst.  We did stay for part of ( Read more... )