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Famous Last Words
Don't ask me why, but I'm (rather morbidly) re-reading Passage, a book about Near Death Experiences by Connie Willis. Brilliant book, loved it, decided upon finishing it that I would treasure the reading experience but never, never read it again ( Read more... ) -
In which I admit to being racist
Here's the thing: I don't like Arabs and Muslims. And I don't think that makes me a bad person.
Bear with me, because this is not an anti-Arab/Muslim post. At all ( Read more... ) -
Worst movie I've seen since I don't know when:
The Hunger Games. Actually, the movie - what I saw of it - was awesome. Unfortunately the handheld cam on Imax at the front of the theatre nauseated me to the point that I had to close my eyes for about a third of it, and ended up puking halfway through :( -
But perhaps we need new glasses
Chris, reading our grocery list: We don't need beef stock. Nor do we need menopause. ::pause:: ::squint:: Mayonnaise. -
Tim the Tool Man has nothing on me
Sadly, the dumbest thing I did this week was not lock myself into a room by mistake because I was doing home repairs and changing all our door handles and I took the doorknob off without taking the bolt out, and required twenty minutes and Justin's help to take the door off its hinges, and we were darn close to giving up and just kicking the damn ( Read more... ) -
Bit of a bummer start to the day
Daylight Savings Time caught us off-guard, can't get Skype up to call my cousin, can't call her either, one-year anniversary of the Japan tsunami on the news, cat pooped on couch again, Justin's Chinese Cooking For Kids class for Monday has been cancelled, and my mom would've been sixty-eight today ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes The Stupid is kinda awesome
(From the Comments section on a story about the anniversary of the Japan earthquake and tsunami)
Joey: There is nothing scary or wrong with earthquakes. It is all beautiful as well as the destruction just like creation is beautiful. Opening up to every aspect of life is the key to happiness.
Robert: your stupid
Joey: Please explain why I am ( Read more... ) -
What could you do?
Overheard from a fellow home schooling mom: "So I signed Johnny up for the class, but partway through the second session he said, 'Mom, can we leave? This is really boring.' So I took him home. I mean, I felt kinda bad for the teacher, because he was really loud, but what could I do? He was bored ( Read more... ) -
Can't imagine doing all of this in person...
With one phone, one laptop, and two hands, I have reordered my entire world today. Power to the Internets!
- e-mail KH, SH, IN, NR, WW, KM, MD
- confirm flights with Trinh
- call Annie at LSUC finances, 1-800-668-7380 x 2250
- make payment
- LSUC portal: 416-947-3456
- finish end of year report
- call LAWPRO
- Legal Aid
- Re-call mentors: Criminal, Family
- e-mail KH, SH, IN, NR, WW, KM, MD
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It's like if the only thing that survived from our time was church music
... and then one day someone discovered the collected works of Eminem.
- Daniel, describing the Carmina Burana (Cantiones Profanae)
Other bits from yesterday's choir rehearsal:
- Soprano 1: (reading translation of the lyrics) Huh. Yielding gratifies me; refusing makes me grieve.
Soprano 2: Yup. My maidenhood excites me.
- Director: Sopranos, that ( Read more... )
- Soprano 1: (reading translation of the lyrics) Huh. Yielding gratifies me; refusing makes me grieve.