The dorm at VA Tech where those first two shootings took place was the same one that my brother and sister-in-law were RAs last year. They knew the RA that died and what really gets me is that I know that in the same situation that both of them would have done the same thing and gone to help that poor young woman.

Yeah, sorry for the rather cryptic nature of the post the other day. I'm fine, I just got the emergency room visit from Neko sorted with Sentara. There was a bit of confusion as to whether or not the insurance that I had been covered by at Dreamlight would foot the bill, or if I was uninsured at that point in time. So that's finished now, I just ( Read more... )

Things are sorted now. Everything is straight with the hospital and I can finally breath a sigh of relief.

To the Photobucket Gallery of roller_boy's lovelies!

Just follow Maru!

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Curse you, roller_boy! You now have me desiring to make a Cirque costume. And since this is 100% your fault, you can expect me to pick your brain until I have the information that I desire.

In other (not-so) exciting news, I am doing a slash-and-burn of my apartment over the next week. Does anyone know a good place to donate a bunch of craft supplies?

Guess who has an EOS 5D with an EF 70-300mm lens to play with over the next week? ^_~

Counting down until our trip to Florida this weekend to visit roller_boy. I'm getting the car ready today and getting my stuff packed.

I've also started a new knitting project. Another scarf, this time based on Mark's scarf in RENT. It's going to be double knit in worsted weight yarn, and I might try it in lighter weight yarn if it feels too heavy. But I ( Read more... )

Here's to Donnie and Jamie and their wonderful two years of marriage.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

It's not until you actually try film/photography that you suddenly see the paranoia in this day and age.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Funny show. A whole song about a kid's first public boner.

jamiegodley, I think you'd really like it. There are a lot of fun bits about language in it.