Oh, I had forgotten, being away for a few months, that everyone in New England is a lesbian bird-watcher who just got back from hiking the Appalacian Trail and got a job at Emerson College. Oh yeah, and she got a new Prius to replace her old Volvo. This place is so strange, but I think I still like it.

1. We (meaning "I") are making little progress toward sanctity ( Read more... )

this seems to have turned into a gossip site of some sort?

I would update more if more things changed. By that I mean, if I changed. But that still isn't happening.

but sometimes it seems that God and the universe are conspiring to make me Catholic.

Lord, give me boundless charity.

Just not any time in the near future.

So on my guilty-pleasure blog (by which I mean, a blog that I read and find amusing, but feel guilty for ridiculing), there's a gem of a new post.  I think I mostly love the fact that this blogger has such a unique and tangible 'voice'.  Read a bit, and you might see what I mean.  OK, I can't help but to also recommend this post, if only for the ( Read more... )

Often, though, I consider whether or not people at my funeral would say that I made them laugh.  This is worrying now, because some people have completely altered my view of the world, and none of them are the type to have made many people laugh ( Read more... )

The T-shirt would say:

Just Give Up Already

I'm an Introvert

It would say that.

I have, however, started watching a good deal of this television thing that I missed out on for so long (in addition, that is, to no longer starting sentences with 'however').  Well, that means about a half hour a day or so.  Having not had much of a childhood, I'm now busy typing abstracts.  Even the word sounds horrible ( Read more... )