This is totally on my next summer online reading list:

Oldest Bible Pieced Together

Long and pointless meme, ganked from
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This weekend's goal: Rip apart whole apartment. Make four piles: goes on craigslist, goes to Myopic Books, goes to Brown Elephant, just plain goes. Maybe five piles- has anyone ever had any luck with Crossroads Trading Company? I've been jumping over piles of clutter for far too long ( Read more... )

Inspired by ainsley: This day in LJ history!

2007: No post, but on the 4th I rambled re: the new (current) apartment.
2006: New little kitten, and suburban isolation.
2005: No post this day, but on the 2nd I discussed my ornery cat's angry overnight visit to the vet.
2004: Three posts in one day! One about how I'm liek-woe-so-sad and life sucks, one ( Read more... )

Did my first PAWS presentation last week, at a park district day camp. We had a group age 6-9, followed by a group age 10-12. The older kids answered direct questions, and generally weren't very disruptive. The younger kids... well... sometimes it went like this, "Who knows what spay and neuter mean?" *hands go up* "Yes, you?" "I have a dog!" Okay ( Read more... )

Fed up with the number of plastic bags in my kitchen (you can't just throw them away, can you?) and in need of a beginner crochet project, I made... a cute little shopping bag! And then I made another one! (not pictured) The second one is bigger, and holds about twice as much stuff as the first. I'm also working on a third, smallish one, provided I ( Read more... )

I'm driving south on Western last night, headed for Addison Ave., and notice a great plume of black smoke hovering over the street in front of Lane Tech. As I turn right on Addison, I see a flame, which from my vantage point appears to be in front of the school. Are the kids having a nice summer bonfire? Aw, how all-American of them! Except... why ( Read more... )

It shouldn't have been funny, but it really, really was ( Read more... )

So, DC is now allowing handguns, but they must be registered.

D.C.'s Gun Ban Is History

This seems like a fairly moderate ruling- the gun nuts win a point, because they can legally have handguns in the district, but many of them will see it as a loss that the firearm must be registered.

Just saw the best new show on t.v.! (No, really, I mean it.) It's called The Middle Man, and you must, must watch. Seriously. Do it.