-
movie and progress
Last night we watched Little Miss Sunshine at the Somerville Theater. It was pretty good. The odd thing about it is that one of the main characters looked and sounded like Eric Trumpler (a bellringer). I wonder if they are actually related. He doesn't look nearly as similar in most of his other photos though ( Read more... ) -
Voting
Everyone should vote tomorrow (unless you voted early or you are not a US citizen). For Massachusetts, you can find out who and what will be on the ballot here. There may be poorly advertised local ballot questions that you care about, so you might want to check before you go vote. Somerville (at least where I live) has three local ballot questions ( Read more... ) -
Body Awareness
2 weeks ago I found my spine. I noticed while I was turning my head that I could feel the individual vertebrae moving. This is very exciting. I have practiced maintaining this every day because body awareness is a good thing ( Read more... ) -
Registering to Vote
The deadline to register to vote in the general election is next Wednesday, Oct 18. If you haven't registered yet, you should do so soon. You can request the form online, but then they have to mail it to you which might take too long. It is probably better to go to city hall and fill out the form where you turn it in. If you know other people that ( Read more... ) -
Elephants
Every year, the circus comes to Boston and parks its trains by MIT. They then walk their elephants down Mass Ave. I have so far managed to completely miss this for 8 years now, because I never heard about it in advance. This year, I got an email about it before it happened ( Read more... ) -
Religion and Fundamentalism
Behold, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil. Choose life, so that you and your offspring will live (Deut 30:15,19)
( My Views on Fundamentalism ) -
Primary
Tomorrow is the Massachusetts primary. The Republicans have 2 candidates to run against Kennedy for Senate and a few local contested elections. There are 3 contested state-wide elections for Democrats:
Governor:
Deval Patrick
Chris Gabrieli
Tom Reilly
Lt Governor:
Timothy Murray
Andrea Silbert
Deborah Goldberg
Secretary of State:
John Bonifaz
( Read more... ) -
Niece
I just got this email from my mom:
Darlene had to have a c-section (fetal distress) but she and baby are fine. Elizabeth Rose Pena is 18 inches and 5 pounds 1.3 ounces.
Darlene is my younger sister. This is my first niece :) -
bad grammar rules
I just noticed that my notebook has grammar rules on the back cover. But some of the rules are wrong and some have bad grammar themselves. Examples:
In the punctuation section:
A semicolon indicates a greater pause than that which is indicated by a comma; and is often used between groups of words separated by commas ( Read more... )
