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Life update
So I'm not dead, just no longer active on LJ ( Read more... ) -
snowstorm
remember when you were a kid and this weather meant outdoor play?
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On the first day of work [tuesday]
I gots a job! Started Tuesday!
I was happy to meet another coworker, D, who is also Chinese. I asked if she would mind if we occasionally chatted in Chinese since I was concerned that my Mandarin skills might get rusty. Manager P overheard, laughed, and told me not to worry.
During my interview with Manager P, I asked if they were going to test my ( Read more... ) -
Whether you voted for Obama or Romney...
In 1838 Governor Liburn Boggs issued Executive Order 44, which called for the extermination of Mormons living in the State of Missouri. The Governor actually made it legal to shoot and kill Mormons or drive them out of the state. Many groups took advantage of this as a sport, burning houses, torturing men, raping women, and killing children for fun ( Read more... ) -
Humanizing gay marriage
Dear friends/family who are thinking about voting on any marriage amendments [Minnesota this year ( Read more... ) -
Update!!
So I was offline'ish for hte past month due to travel. Sisterly unit graduated from Uni in Switzerland, so of course the whole fam's gonna go for a Euro trip. We went to France, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. Then spent two weeks in Shanghai [where FB, twitter and youtube are blocked. LJ is not blocked, but lags so badly it might as well be ( Read more... ) -
Europe!
Flying out this Sunday for Europe. Will be spending two weeks going to France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland [lil sis is graduating from EHL in Switzerland]. We may go to Germany to the see the godbrother. Maybe. This line will be deleted from the tumblr cross post because he'll flip about it ( Read more... ) -
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Four earthquakes and a massive tropical storm that caused lots of flooding, damage [and a few deaths] and we're only halfway through the week...
Welp. Parental units come on Monday... harbingers of the apocalypse? -
A sequence of events tonight
A friend's FB status reads as thus:
28 Days fans: "I think the key thing about Britain is that it's built on this deep, dark ocean of history. There are grassy, picturesque areas of London which you still can't put train tunnels through because they're actually covering plague pits. You just don't get that in America - the dark abyss of the past. ( Read more... )