I was looking at my LJ friends list earlier this evening and realized all over again that a great many of us have not been posting much to this site any more. With this in mind, I propose to do a fairly substantial purge of my friends list in which I remove journals that appear to be defunct, as indicated by a "last updated" date some time in 2010 ( Read more... )

Hi all,

I've done a minor purge of my friends list. If you're now not on my friends list and would like this change to be reversed, please let me know. Comments screened below.

Thanks!

I got my drivers license this morning!

"In the wake of DOMA, it is only sexual orientation that differentiates a married couple entitled to federal marriage-based benefits from one not so entitled. And this court can conceive of no way in which such a difference might be relevant to the provision of the benefits at issue. By premising eligibility for these benefits on marital status ( Read more... )

mirandir recited this during the ceremony in which J and I got married, six months ago yesterday. (Handy, to have gotten married on a cross-quarter holiday: every three months there's a reminder in the form of some pagan celebration or other!) But I think the idea at the heart of this poem applies to every relationship I've ever had, whether it be a ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )

Many of you may have seen this already, either here on LJ or on Facebook, but I think it's worth posting again ( Read more... )

This doesn't come from a horoscope, but rather appeared at the bottom of one of the horoscope pages, and is a quote from the "revised and expanded edition of [his] book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings."

The Golden Rule is a decent ethical principle, but it could be even better ( Read more... )

Good things about October:

* the academic semester reaches its halfway point
* the leaves start to turn colors
* Diana's Grove does its Rites weekend, which is invariably awesome
* hot food and hot showers become deeply appealing again
* the Tomato Nation jumps on the yearly Donors Choose challenge and makes amazing things happen ( Read more... )

How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist's

It begins with these words:

So you’re chugging along doing all the things you do as a responsible citizen, you work, and pay your bills and your taxes, you are there for your children, and fighting for your marriage, you even volunteer. It’s spring, 1998, and gradually you just become so ( Read more... )