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Go, Ontario!
Hauling myself out of the deep funk* long enough to note that the Province of Ontario has noticed the "T" in LGBT, and decided that there is a T in "humanity" as well.
May this also be the beginning of a Trend.
*said funk induced by a combination of computer problems requiring extensive manual data entry, a bad bout of fibromyalgia in the hands, and ( Read more... ) -
Crime, crooks, conmen, and capers
So, it's been almost a quarter year since I've posted one of these; and it looks like that everything I can remember reading in the past few months (aside from all the review books) has been very much of a theme. I don't even want to speculate about what's up with that.
Fiction
The Only Gold by Tamara Allan.
Well, I tried Downtime and ( Read more... ) -
Let's Play A Game!
So, here I am in my cubicle at work, and a shimmering time-space vortex has suddenly appeared -- as they do -- to engulf me and send me I know not whence.
I have only one minute to grab what I can before being transported into... a vaguely medieval Europe-ish fantasy land? A twenty-fourth century starship? An arid wasteland of lurking horrors? ( Read more... ) -
Up for discussion
O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing
(from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman)
Is the proper purpose of an e-mail, or a blog post, or a comment on an Internet thread, to speak because I have something to say, or because I feel the need to be heard? -
Bringing Brownies To Work or, Robert Fulghum Was Right
So, when I first started at this current job, the custom at the library was for the other people to bring in treats on your birthday.
This didn't work out too well. Sometimes, people forgot. Sometimes, people brought in things you didn't like. Sometimes, everybody brought in treats, and there was too much. There were grumblings. People's ( Read more... ) -
Not cancer
Not that I am a prolific poster at the best of times, but if anyone has noticed that I have been somewhat terse the past couple of weeks, that's because I've spent most of that time trying to think of something to say beyond paraphrasing Arthur Dent: "So this is it. I'm going to die."
The day after my annual mammogram, I got a call from the ( Read more... ) -
A Taxing Day
Today I had a very distraught lady come to the reference desk. It seems that her ex-husband died last year, and having no other living relatives, made her the executor of his will. She, being a much nicer person than I would have been, accepted this responsibility, and did her best to discharge her duties.
Unfortunately, she had no idea how to do ( Read more... ) -
Shorter John Chrysostom
Game over: Love Wins! -
BRCA and me; or Another Reason To Care About the ACA
So yesterday, I went in for my regular screening mammogram.
When I say "regular", I mean "once every five years", because that's what my health insurance (a relatively generous plan, as US plans go) covers -- even though my doctor would prefer that I get one every year, because of my family history. More about that in a bit.
For those who have never ( Read more... ) -
Passion Sunday; or, Trashing the Decor
And the curtain of the Temple was torn in two, from the top to the bottom. (Mark 15:38)
Today is Passion Sunday, aka Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, when we stand in silence and listen to the Passion story.
This was the penultimate line from the Gospel reading, and it occurred to me, as I listened, how utterly threatening it was.
The " ( Read more... )