Some days my usual cheering-up mechanisms just aren't up to the challenge.

Those are the days I go to Target and wander the baby socks-and-shoes aisle.  Works every time.

So it shouldn't surprise anyone that it turns out the shooter's most recent ex-wife attended church at the Knoxville UU.  This is a domestic violence issue, and even less surprisingly, no one is addressing it as such, in the media or within the UU.  The other story, a madman bent on killing liberals, is more compelling, even if the truth -- a ( Read more... )

And though I think I'll always be ambivalent about organized religion (ok, organized anything, really), UU gave me a place to just be while I figure some of that out.

Which these folks were doing before the shooting started:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/07/of-madmen-and-martyrs.html

I'm very proud of how they conducted themselves and what they ( Read more... )

X = done ( Read more... )

Your result for The Attachment Style Test...
The Free Agent

25% Anxiety Over Abandonment and 33% Avoidance Of Intimacy


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A slideshow preview thing:
http://margaretsingerphoto.com/wed/08/ka/

I was just thinking earlier today that I would really like a book club where I didn't have to read a book every month.  Where we could just hang out & talk about books we like, & get ideas for new books to read.  Maybe with a theme every month, like "books with the best drinking in them," or "most misogynistic book you ever read," or "books that ( Read more... )

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily ( Read more... )

Maybe taking two classes and a clinical, working, giving a presentation on glaucoma and having a wedding all in the same week was kind of sort of not the best idea I ever had in my life ever.

They bug-bombed the elevator and the floor right above my unit's med room today; the nurse I was working with immediately started complaining of the smell, and later feeling nauseated, fatigued, just generally awful. I feel pretty good, so far ( Read more... )