ugh.  It's in the 90s outside.
And with the heat index, right now, it's almost too hot to even think about thinking.
Even so, I gotta go exert myself to do a bunch of mindless stuff.
It needs to be done and helps pass the time while waiting on the bigger issues that seem not  to be getting handled...
not fast enough for consistant progress, anyway.

Last night, during the few hours of sleep that I got, I had a nightmare involving my ex-husband.  In it, I was forced to bathe out in the open, in the back waters of a large river, within thirty yards of his favorite 'watering spot'.  He was, unbeknownst to himself, being kept under observation at some sort of utopian nature preserve, and in the ( Read more... )

To that one particuler guy who took such a low shot at me earlier today that it took until now for it to really sink in...

Go suck on your innane misinformed sense of Platonic order
and call it less filling, you voluntarily deluded little twerp.

To the girl with him...
hon, if only you really knew... 

The snails don't look happy at all.  I'm hoping they're just bored, but it could be a longer term estivation period.  They're not even coming out for food right now ( Read more... )

Having someone looking over one's shoulder, even if only seeming to, even if they're in fact asleep, is disconserting ( Read more... )

We finally made a positive ID on the snails the Guy and I brought home from our brief jaunt 'down-the-shore' a few weeks ago.  They are either Cepaea hortensis or Cepaea nemoralis (Garden or Grove snails).  While researching the care and feeding of landsnails, I came across this:

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As requested by photonutz, here is my Top Ten list of films/movies I've actually seen:

10) White Zombie---Of which I got a $1 DVD copy on a random shopping excursion.  Until watching this I never knew what a total stud Bela Lugosi was.  It's a keystone watching experience for anyone hoping to enjoy the gothic/horror genre.

9)Resevior Dogs---The scene ( Read more... )

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My black docs are in AC.
I am not.

There's nothing like a secret in your past to run from to keep you going at least in some direction ( Read more... )