I made the mistake of admitting to my mother, when I spoke to her on Easter, that I was (am) quite stressed out and burnt out because of school and being sick all the time and so on. She relied on the only thing she knows works for me 100% of the time I'm stressed ( Read more... )

I think I need some stupidity to counter all that intellectual stuff in the last post. Handed in my last essay before exams this afternoon. It's a pretty special paper; it's an analysis of a chunk of the Malleus and... involves a pseudo-flow chart. I've never used a flow chart in a paper before, I'm wondering if it's totally out of bounds. I mean, ( Read more... )

So, I suppose few people on LJ are aware of this, being on the other side of the continent and all, but it seems I've zoned in on (S.) Korea as being my "after I graduate, go spread the frustration that is the English language" place ( Read more... )

A male coworker! I like it when guys buy into the cute stuff, too.

( Subject line: What would you do if this was your dog and you needed to leave him for a few minutes? )

I'm stuck awake ( Read more... )

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Hello! I will post this here, since I have done so on Facebook already:

This will be my publicly-available travel blog for the time I spend in Greece. You are welcome to peruse it and be not at all impressed at my ability to use the Greek alphabet after a whole two years of studying an obsolete form of the language. Hiyah ( Read more... )

( 19 May in Edmonton. )

Oh look, animals seek out pleasure and joy as an end unto itself. I am so thoroughly unsurprised. I have to say, though, that I have a much clearer conscience about stuff like this since having gone veggie. The associated slide show has a picture of a rescued calf bounding about, and I smiled widely, warmly and genuinely at it, and didn't have some ( Read more... )

My parents have two dogs, and have had both for a number of years (i.e. I consider them 'their' dogs, and not 'my' dogs, because I moved out soon after they got the second, and Cass is 'my' cat, so yep ( Read more... )