Wow. The last two months have been rough ( Read more... )

From "The Identification of Lace" by Pat Earnshaw.

Lace is ridiculously slow to make by hand (if you were good, you'd make maybe two feet in a year) but absolutely worth it. The skill and artistry involved is unfathomable. And before you say, "Well, it's just lace," you should know some of the history involved and why it really is such a big deal ( Read more... )

"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained..."
--Lao Tzu

Thank you, anahata56.

Long before it begins.

Stay with me.

Sway with me.

The cat has discovered that if he scratches inappropriate objects, he gets attention ( Read more... )

So my brother calls just as I sit down in Chemistry class.
Me: "Hola."
Him: "Tank! I need an exit!"

Of course, then I go and crack up ;) (Also, I got an A on my chemistry test. Best grade so far in there. Woo! :) I love you, thermochemistry.

So I made a lunch date with the guy for Friday.

I freaked myself out this morning and ended up jumping at shadows.

I'm studying for a quiz (y'all can see me studying, right? Even as I type this, changes in enthalpy calculations are dancing in my head.)

I know that it's against everything else the world is saying, but I honestly don't think ( Read more... )

Learning enough of the basics of recombinant DNA to maybe answer an essay question on the test with more than a big, fat ? scrawled across my paper is not something I'd recommend doing at two a.m., mere hours before the test.

Just a word of advice.

A few years ago, in a friend's tank, I got a glimpse of a fish that moved like magic through the water, a metallic glint and it was gone, hidden. My friend called it a dragon fish.

When we moved here, I looked it up, but all I could find was the Arowana:


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On the way home from Spanish class tonight I read an English billboard and my head translated it into some kind of funky Spanish. That was weird.

Oh, and I'm really happy because things I read in Spanish are starting to make sense. I'm not stumbling over every word. I got faster, taking just a minute to parse all the words, but now it's almost ( Read more... )