Edit: I changed the date on this to bump it up the queue because I am enjoying the commentatious discussion. Now it shan't be lost in the hubbub. Otherwise, nothing else has changed.The problem with unconditional love is that it has no conditions. Even when people do really horrible things to you, you go right on caring for them, despite the ( Read more... )

Do you all know about the minister's cat game? It's some victorian british parlor game where you sit in a circle of people and fill in the sentence "the minister's cat is...." with adjectives in ascending alphabetical order and you have to go around the circle with the letter and if you miss or repeat you're out ( Read more... )

I AM: Intense. Given to giving ( Read more... )

Once in a century, the date 6/6/06 comes around. Today is that day. Jason has warned me to be cautious, to stay away from public transport. Oh what horrors await me? Bombings, alien babies, cats with three heads? I wonder if I could use the three-headed cat as an excuse to skip class? (If only I didn't have a presentation to give, maybe I would ( Read more... )

Tmesis: n. a figure of speech in which one word is inserted into another word. An infix ( Read more... )

Firstly, check out this: Tower Blaster Game. There are Vikings! And bricks! Oh so cute ( Read more... )

Yesterday I drove from Alexandria, VA, to Alpharetta, GA. For those of you who cannot adequately grasp just how far this is, let me elucidate: far. 648 miles to be exact about it. I left my house at 10:30 am and arrived at my parents house at 9:21 pm. I budgeted one stop per state. Interestingly, each state seemed to take almost exactly nice little ( Read more... )

I just wrote a check for more than eleven thousand dollars. My stomach has left the building ( Read more... )

Every time I slip through a door that is in the process of swinging shut without touching it myself, I imagine I am a ghost passing through. If the spirits of the dead really walk among us, they travel like this.

Tonight I will attend my final class of Spring 2006 at GWU. Hallelujah. All I have left to do for school is to write a big fat important final due next week. Otherwise, work rules my life. It's busy season at the Writing Center ( Read more... )