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I am a very sweaty human. I work out and suddenly, my body decides to eject all moisture via my pores. It is sort of disgusting ( Read more... )

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Since I work at a Religious University, I am mandated as part of my contract to participate in certain religious ceremonies that directly relate to the university's activities. This weekend we had Baccalaureate prior to graduation. The sermon text was 1st Corinthians 13, which used to be a personal favorite. Now, the sermon actually had very ( Read more... )

I don't like remembering that I was happy once, a long time ago. Happiness never lasts, and when it goes, it just reminds you how miserable you are now. It's like this stupid shining bubble of hope. I wish I didn't remember being happy. I wish I'd never been happy since it's so far away now and won't come again. It's not something I can learn ( Read more... )

I just did a tiny little Flist clean. If you were removed accidentally, please tell me. I was only trying to remove deleted journals, not used ones.

The stairs look like they've been there forever ( Read more... )

I've sort of had these ideas rolling about for a few days. Mainly, our standards of beauty are screwed up beyond belief. We continually criticize ourselves(See Heidi Montag, who recently got 10 surgeries at once to look nothing like herself) and the culture encourages it (see Christina Hendricks' recent press coverage). We are sold things that ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I adore what I do is the way that history is right there. The proof of what was said and done is on paper in front of you, and no matter how many years have passed, by reading and touching documents are a way to connect to others that you have nothing in common with, who you know nothing about, except that the information they ( Read more... )

I am hardly an expert, so this is going to be an extremely odd post ( Read more... )