Hi Elljay. I’m not dead ( Read more... )

Friends, did I tell you about this ( Read more... )

I know I never told you about my trip to Chicago, probably never will either. It's also likely that you'll never get the details about my trip to Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Not much else can be said about my grandmother. Oh, well except that she passed away the week after my last posting. I was there & all is well now (don't really feel like ( Read more... )

Saturday nightI’m sitting in a dark hospital room ( Read more... )

After getting out of class tonight, I stopped by the evacuee shelter at LSUS. The first thing I came across, besides all the kids happily playing ball in the dark, was a tent full of noisy caged pets, seemingly well taken care of. A little unsettling though. I was hoping this wouldn't a foreshadowing of the mayhem inside. Once inside, while ( Read more... )

Hey. Just sitting here eating macadamia nuts. I love them so. My teeth do too. Nothing else quite has the smooth, quiet crunch of a macadamia nut ( Read more... )

Thought you'd like to see the newest addition to my fish tank.
Meet "Little Frothy". He's a blue crawfish (duh) and about 2 1/2" long.

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I’m so giddy, I don’t quite know what to do with myself. Two of my favorite people in the world, who I hardly ever get to see, will be in town this weekend, visiting little old me. I’m feeling somewhat special. Looking forward to creating new bittersweet memories ( Read more... )

I learned a few things about myself this past weekend. Wanna hear?

1.) I don't so much care for Shakespeare. There. I saw a performance of Comedy of Errors Friday night. It was fairly good & I can appreciate the maintained relevancy of something created in the 16th century, but keeping up with that dialect and watching all the "near misses" of ( Read more... )

Sigh. I don't want this summer to ever end. It's been a blast.

Last weekend, I went out with friends to the new "cowboy bar". It was an awful place really - but we were drawn there by the call of their MECHANICAL BULL. Of course I rode it. Twice. But pretty briefly both times. It was a slippery one.


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