a great day in "alpine helen," a city in the north georgia mountains full of alpine cottages, kitchy souvenir shops and rednecks. had two nice german meals - knockwurst and sauerbraten - and a nice long walk through the strip. nothing quite punctuates a fake alpine tourist town like numerous confederate flags drapped from the peaked cabins' cute ( Read more... )

Pronouns have been changed to protect my feminine mystique... some of these are so acurate, it's frightening ( Read more... )

well ( Read more... )

ok. so ( Read more... )

so... in about 15 hours i leave for the mountains... i leave for another round of hoodrat camping. i have no idea how warm or cold or wet or dry it will be... i have apprehensions about the kids i'm taking, as they are kind of crazy... i'm overwhelmed ( Read more... )

but first, courtesy of miriam, A little fun with iTunes ( Read more... )

you know you're an adult when you're late to one meeting because you got stuck in traffic on the highway coming from another meeting ( Read more... )

so my apt almost burned down last week. it didn't, which is cool, but i did have to flee through a stairwell full of smoke, answering "i'm coming" to the firemen yelling "is everyone out ( Read more... )

today was a day that made me think i cannot possible go back to work for another few months, let alone a few years ( Read more... )

i too had to add more interests so i could jump on the wagon with this, the latest of so many wonderful LJ trends.

LJ Interests meme results

1. atlanta:
   i live here. it's a great city, aside from the mind-numbing racial tension and inequity lurking below every surface. the food here never stops amazing me - example, a soul food sea food restaurant ( Read more... )