Good Heavens, I just looked over my old posts. I write very unhappily about many things. I apologise. In future I shall be most chirpy and cheerful. Love, thy sincerest admirer,
Emily Le Strange

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My mother and sister are so much alike in their arguing styles. They both have good points but they present them so unrationally. They yell at eachother these perfectly logical and useful remarks, effectively making them less creditable. I will never understand the two of them. They like to call eachother bitches. Jesse has a propensity for ( Read more... )

America is a land of Extremes ( Read more... )

The news is so horrible. I look on the Yahoo homepage and I find headlines about the terrorist attack on a school in Russia, Hurricane Frances causes flooding and power outages, Strong earthquake hits Japan, Bush's popularity is higher than Kerry's, Israel builds a barrier, Clinton has surgery. All of that is right next to an ad for Vanity Fair, a ( Read more... )

Went across town on my bike yesterday, to talk about Agatha Christie's autobiography. It was very hot. (The weather not the ( Read more... )

I've been hearing about the draft for months now on the internet. It was always just some very vague idea that the draft might get reinstated. Then yesterday, Helen told me that if the draft did get started again, then her family was going to move to either Mexico, Canada, or the Bahamas ( Read more... )

We were in Truro taking my cousin and aunt to the bus stop when we saw a man riding a bike up the hill. It was one of those bikes where one has to lean back and pedal in an almost lying down position. My grandparents, being somewhat wary of newfangled machines, asked derisevely ( Read more... )

Just imagine that it was biologically possible for two men to have a child together. Now imagine that Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Joe from Bend It Like Beckham) and Elvis Presley were lovers. Well, in that world, I sat next to their son on the train. He was a young british audio engineer travelling in the states ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm finally back after being away much longer than I thought I would be. I got invited to stay with my cousin in Santa Cruz this fall ( Read more... )