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OED, on "shorty" [entry deleted because of weird html]

My own love of the word shorty is pretty recent - a few years ago I found this video when I was looking for youtube clips of modern occult practitioners at work for use in my X100 class. One of the c-walkers is named ... The Alchemist.

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It's been an awfully long time since I've done an open update in my journal - I've been back in Kansas for a little more than two weeks and I've been doing many of the things I was looking forward to by the end of my long year overseas.

While I was in Kansas City I took a bunch of pictures of my niece. I have some nice pictures of Sam here, but not ( Read more... )

I got my butt in gear and went out to the market to see if there were honeydew melons out yet. Nope. Nothing but beets and meats. But I did get some good photos.

I really like the photography. I think I'm pretty good at it. I wish I'd figured that out sooner. Of course, I think I would have been fairly BAD at photography back when that required ( Read more... )

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RARRGGHHHHHH. RARRRRGGHHHHH. I *knew* it!

Then I had to fight my way - and I am not kidding, I felt like I was on my own security team - up the stairs to the basilica, because they were crawling with a serious infestation of hippies. Then into the basilica, which is actually kind of creeping me out, because it is a VERY amped up place - it is ( Read more... )

I left London at midday and it was a pleasant 65 degrees or so - if we DO get personalized heavens, mine will have the thermostat set at 65 most of the time. The temperature when I arrived in Paris? 92. 87, feels like 92 said weather.com! That means: super humid, and super hot.

Oh reverent joy.

I took the Eurostar across the channel, which I've ( Read more... )

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There are choristers singing somewhere in the Bodleian - probably in the divinity school just under us because I can hear them so well. I think they may be practicing for evensong at St. Mary's, which is just a stone's throw away. It's very beautiful here, all burnished wood and the smell of old book and the painted glass managing a demure glow in ( Read more... )

So I just heard back from the archivist at Chartres - the gist of which email was 1) the shelfmarks were from the 19th century (another example of how the author didn't actually check her damn data), and here are the new shelfmarks which 2) aren't that useful at this point anyway because both manuscripts were destroyed in a fire in 1944 ( Read more... )