of my childhood and my mothers' (both of them) adventures though out it.


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I was not able to post for my birthday on Sunday as I was too busy curled up with my eyes clinched shut, cursing this thing called perpetual vomiting... Thank you so much to my wonderful wife took care of me and who didn't gripe once; not even when I woke her up for the 10th time in the middle of the night retching my stomach inside out yet again.
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It’s finals week. I’m tired. My brain is tired. I’ve been trying to shove too much information into it in far to short a time. For some reason I haven’t been able to sleep much which is not helping matters at all. I’m starting to feel the burnout coming on as well.

Today is my last day of finals. I’m trying my best not to go ( Read more... )

            I don’t like the word “uncle”. I’m not really sure why but I don't. I’ve nothing against the word itself. Maybe it’s because it feels clunky on my tongue. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of “ungulate”. I’m really not sure but I’m just not a big fan of the word.

But…

Last night I did a bit of a learn-by-doing ( Read more... )

I fear that I am ordinary just like everyone. Right now I have a few major fears in my life. An ordinary life is one of them. My grandfather smuggled bibles into Poland when it was illegal to think about doing so. My father was in the first ground unit to cross into Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. What do I have so far? I’ve been to Europe. That’s ( Read more... )

I thought considering the political climate of late this was a good repost....

08:53 am - I thought that the republican bashing could use a counter balance. 
The Little Red Hen-Modern version

Once upon a time, on a farm in Texas, there was a little red hen
who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few
grains of wheat.

She called all of ( Read more... )

I"m not sure what made me think of it but I listened to Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold. Every time I listen to that song it breaks my heart. She wrote it after she found out that she had terminal cancer.
I find that every time I hear this song I have to pause and listen to it. So I found myself walking around Campbell Hall listening. This song put me ( Read more... )

I'm sorry. I HAVE to rant about this from the NAGCR chat group about the cost of the AGM ($50):

Re: [Towerbells-L] AGM banquet

I think $42 for a dinner is great value for money in 2007. I would
like to think that most ringers, whether students or not, would also
agree.

Great value?? I can take Jenne to Olive Garden and BOTH of us eat for less then ( Read more... )

I am becoming much like my father. I am my own worst critic. This would be fine if things would change. Yet, they seem not too. Nowhere this is criticism more apparent then in the fact that I don't have a career yet. I'm, quite frankly, embarrassed by it. I don't care that I'm *trying* to get a degree. That doesn't change the fact that I'm 27 ( Read more... )

I spent the first half of the week fighting with the apartment complex to fix the pluming in the kitchen. When ever we used the kitchen sink or dishwasher the kitchen would flood. They were informed about it a week before hand. The maintenance guy come a total of three times. Finally they called actual plumbers. Turns out there was a hole in the ( Read more... )