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Who cares really? This is the only holiday I get totally bah humbug about.

No drinking Monday to Thursday. Weekends allowed.
Get back to the gym as soon as Abekh brings you over. They've changed the layout since I was last there and I get all OCD about places I've never seen. If I go with him, I'll be better.
Loose some weight and stop feeling like a fat troll. 210 is my start (not my goal ;>)

(I realize most can't see the Russian-- but if you can't read it it doesn't matter ( Read more... )

With two of my former Russian profs on my facebook, I've been revitalized in the Russian stuff ( Read more... )

Back from Chicago Music Library Association conference. What a stressful miserable time. I suck socially plus OCD and a huge number of people = suckage and anxiety. Plus I actually worried about what the pretty young gay boys thought. What a mistake. I wish I could learn to ignore that stuff. I need a sign "Just fuck me and we can get on with ( Read more... )

"I have loved her all my youth
but I'm an old man now as you can see,
Love liketh not the falling fruit,
nor the withered tree."

From an old English song "Walsingham"

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I decided this weekend to set up a permanent altar for Danto. Went out to Targut got a tall narrow tabley thing. Will dedicated it Tuesday. I hardly have anything to put on it as yet.

By Galaktion Tabidze

Fatherland

Without walking barefoot on dewy grass
How would I know my fatherland? I ask.
All of the ancestors have now gone from here,
and only joyous strangers' voices left to hear.

A slow and silent breeze moves through the meadow,
within the breeze, I see the ghost-- an old man's shadow;
My father, with a pruning knife
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