well, new hamster icons, anyway. I had something to say, but I got sidetracked by the choices for mood icons. I wonder what life is like for those not so easily sidetracked ( Read more... )

OK, OK, so it's been a while.

Maybe tomorrow I will actually have something to say. . .

When I emailed my very last essay exam on Thursday evening, I wandered over to the TV and put on Monty Python. . . I watched 3 episodes while looking through a magazine (The New Yorker - I only read comics). It was . . . ahhhhhhh!. . . wonderful ( Read more... )

Took this quiz and . . .

What Breed of Puppy Are You?
You Are a Boxer Puppy

Energetic, playful and good with kids.
You've also got a wild spirit that can't be trained or tamed.

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To that I say: Huh? Wha. ..?

really. The dogs were barking right outside the window with that "we got something" tone and whaddaya know, when I opened the door & looked out there was a Very Large wild boar standing in the yard. Like 200 lbs. of hog. It retreated behind the hedge, out of sight, but my GOD! What a stench rolled off of it. My dad came out and shook his head. A ( Read more... )

This is what I woke up thinking this morning, after a spell of fearsome nightmares ( Read more... )

OK, here are the books I've read so far this Christmas break.

Love Among the Ruins and Libra, two post-modern novels recommended by the professor who bit my head off very loudly and rudely in class when I mentioned I didn't in the least bit enjoy Middle Passage - from my Lit. of the Sea class.  I asked him to recommend some other post-modern ( Read more... )

I just got around to seeing "The Hours" & all the extra stuff on DVD last night. One of the extras was a micro-biography of Virginia Woolf ( Read more... )

Hey, I just noticed "rich text" button.  Cool!

Steffi's recital was so cute.  She was the best in her class - no kidding, this is not just the mom speaking!  She was the only one who remembered all the steps and smiled at the audience the whole time.  She did it perfectly - her teacher told me how proud she was.  Not bad for a 5-year-old, way past ( Read more... )

Still haven't seen Troy - have only added a couple more "must-sees" and, anyway, Troy has been bumped off the top of the list by the new H.P. movie ( Read more... )