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Sentimental Conversations or, The History of Empires.
Holy shit, it's a new FFVIII fic from me, hot off the presses! Now friends, this is the first anything I have written in over two years, so do please read and review.
( In which Seifer and Ellone make blueberry pancakes. They totally make 'em. ) -
Today's a snow day, to boot.
I just put together tomorrow's lesson plans while sipping hot tea in my pajamas.
I might be getting good at this teaching thing. -
"Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure."
I hope the libraries and the art museums survive.
I hope Marcus Aurelius survives.
What is it you want? To keep on breathing? What about feeling? desiring? growing? ceasing to grow? using your voice? thinking? Which of them seems worth having? But if you can do without them all, then continue to follow the logos and God. To the end. To prize ( Read more... ) -
The impending arthropod invasion.
LEIGH: I am suspicious of crustaceans.
LEIGH'S FRIEND: With good reason.
LEIGH: You cannot trust anything that wears its skeleton on the outside.
LEIGH'S FRIEND: Which is why you dislike most insects!
LEIGH: Precisely. -
Everything exists, everything is true.
When everything else has crumbled and collapsed, so that the only thing left to do is ask why you have yet to obliterate yourself, and the answer comes as a very small voice from very far away, "Words."
I suppose that is when you know you must become a writer.
And I that have not your faith, how shall I know ( Read more... ) -
Old School Star Trek is good medicine. So is bondage.
I have been fighting anxiety attacks all night long, I am horribly sick for the second time in a month, and I had to cancel tomorrow's hot date.
On the upside, squeemu made me a tribble icon.
Which brings me to: due to a recent meme posted by thebaconfat, I have realized there are on my paid account a full twenty (well, ninteen now) icon slots empty ( Read more... ) -
Should I instead hold the pen and notepad out ANGRILY?
A friend of mine is writing a paper on how people with obvious physical disabilities are often studiously ignored in public. She asked me for my experience as a Deaf person ( Read more... ) -
I happened to see Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" last night.
The uplifted sword has no will of its own, it is all of emptiness. It is like a flash of lightning. The man who is about to be struck down is also of emptiness, and so is the one who wields the sword. None of them are possessed of a mind which has any substantiality. As each of them is of emptiness and has no "mind" (kokoro), the striking man is ( Read more... ) -
Or, um, Leigh-on-Books?
LEIGH: Hey, this guide to cult fiction is full of little tidbits of information. One author I know, John Fowles, was born in Leigh-on-Sea.
LEIGH: I wanna be called Leigh-on-Sea.
LEIGH'S FRIEND: Then we'll go boating.
LEIGH: I should just move there. Then I'd really be Leigh on the sea ( Read more... )