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Final Post
The turtle was always my favorite animal, when I was a kid. I remember we had to do reports on animals and I picked the box tortoise. I don't know why they appealed to me so much, but lately I feel like a turtle. I've retreated into my shell now ( Read more... ) -
today's choices
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujaaaaahhh...
Your love makes me sing
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu Yaaaahweh,
Your love makes me sing, sing, sing...
I wonder what changes, in becoming what I've become,
adult now,
no bones about it, married
and mired in economy now,
the wheels turning, cogs in the machine, Fortune's wheel crashing down.
still young enough ( Read more... ) -
update on Ricki
uhhhh... hi guys! I guess a lot of things have changed since my last post! Is it time for one of those sparkly relationship changey things? I think it is!
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This is THE day.
The day that most of the leaves will fall off the trees. I'm sitting in a whirlwind of them. The sky is perfectly blue and the leaves are so yellow in the air and on the ground. I just spent part of afternoon with Shelley-may on Skype, swinging on the swings and hanging around the playground ( Read more... ) -
"goodnight my dinosaur huntress"
Ricki: "Nope. When we're married and it's late, I will say, I am too tired for snuggling. Goodnight ( Read more... ) -
Unemployed; but so busy it's hard to feel guilty
My week volunteering as a cabin leader at Camp Oshkidee was awesome! The girls in my cabin were the best ever and I had so many good times. :) I look forward to keeping up with everyone over the next year. I think the highlight was the canoeing out-trip, where we played so many awesome games of Mafia, everyone slept under the stars, were told a ( Read more... ) -
The Statistics of an English Master's Student at the U of S
June 2, 2010, I graduated with a master's degree in English. That's five years of figurative blood, sweat, and tears! And what do I have to show for it? A diploma. A lot of trivia. A veritable arsenal of diction. And, hopefully, the beginning of a career ( Read more... ) -
Why does it always feel like the laws exist to protect the criminals?
Tonight, five Michaels employees (if including my off-duty plain-clothed self) watched a known shoplifter bypass the tills and take a whole cart of stuff straight out the door to her truck.
Watched. (I guess we can't all be Megan.)
We called the police with a description of her, her truck, and her license plate number. I guess it's that or lose ( Read more... ) -
Whole weeks feel like this sometimes.
You've got a vision of some far-off day, beautiful and bright ( Read more... )
