of course, the hot water heater waits until the morning of my big interview to be broken.
and, i dont want to try to light the gas water heater because cold showers leave you much more interviewable than exploding.

gah.

things have really heated up lately on planet earth and the question is, why? Is it simply the warming trend of our earths cycle? Or, has humanity sped that up a bit? Ha.

So, for the first time in recorded human history, there is direct, open water passage from the northernmost port of Europe to the NORTH POLE.

Article here.

"Perennial sea ice -- ( Read more... )

"Once upon a time she had suffered under the illusion that if only she exerted herself hard enough, the whole world would change."

read that last night, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars. It definitely struck me, but I'm not sure yet how I feel about it.

Aside from that I have been in a bit of turmoil lately - I talk big about the way to live, ( Read more... )

Since returning from Greece, my summer has been spent serving/drinking the best coffee in baltimore, kayaking like there is no tomorrow, and helping to get this club started and building it's website.

http://www.classiii.org - just soft launched.

I'm kinda proud of it, you should go take a

Someone said to me, last night, that they got through a particularly rough situation, "just by the skin of their teeth." Seems to me that teeth have no skin, that I'm aware of - unless he meant that layer of stuff you get if you don't brush for a good bit. In which case this cliche advocates less teeth brushing? Man, I can not get behind that. I am ( Read more... )

I've been spending alot of time on my website, at the moment, specifically WendHaving wordpress on my own host is really giving me some freedom i like, though it is a bit lacking in the community over here at LJ ... errrr - and i have yet to really get into it, but yeah - its that next step in web stuffs i suppose. well, that or MySpace ( Read more... )

just finished the third in a series of science fiction through time, From Heinlein to here which discusses the fact taht sci-fi doesn't so much accuratly predict the future, as some of it makes extrapolations, some of which are similar to later developments. I still go back and forth on that all, especially after a few summers ago when Joe and I ( Read more... )

Unable to live in the now ( Read more... )

Prose:
There is no light in the lobby to my second floor athens flat. The glass door has been done over in an impressive stained glass motif, and lets in no light from the street. Lightly, I close the door, making sure it clicks home by use of a hip thrust.

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I'm leaving for Greece in just over a week, and I'll be there for a month. Then I shall return for a week or so only to leave for two weeks in dubai, followed by a return to MD only long enough to shower and head out to the Pacific Northwest for a car trip of my favorite states ( Read more... )