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About my username
My username, ladyofshilo, is kind of a blend of the Lady of Shalott, from the Tennyson poem of the same name, and Shilo Wallace, from Repo! The Genetic Opera. I'll talk about the Lady of Shalott today, and do a post on Shilo another time ( Read more... ) -
Coming soon: more information!
So, I haven't been posting that often because a lot of what happens is stuff I can't really talk about. I've discussed it with Ed, though, and he agreed to let me share a little more of what goes on here, as long as I make sure all my readers know it's fiction. You won't be getting any of the actually secret stuff, obviously, or any identifying ( Read more... ) -
Letters We Do Not Send
Dear Coworker,
You may think anonymous flowers are romantic. You are not the one who has to run the toxicology check. Or [Seriously, Katie, do we need to have the Classified Information Talk again? -Ed] Or fill out all the paperwork related to them. That is not romantic, and everyone finds it incredibly annoying. I'm almost half tempted to ( Read more... ) -
Don't mind me, just exorcising personal demons.
Things I don't miss about the real world:- Rain
- Raincoats that leak
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Rhubarb
- Getting up early
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So, I'm thinking about taking some online courses, not for credit but just to keep in the habit of studying until we get the whole college thing sorted out. So far, I'm looking at:- Italian or Portugese (not both)
- Calculus (not my best subject, but that just means it's even more important to keep in practice)
- Linguistics
- Astronomy
- Japanese history
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First Post!
I know the "first post" meme is annoying, but I have my own journal now, so I can make my own decisions here. :)
So, like I said in my profile, this journal will mostly be ramblings about whatever shiny thing catches my eye, or cryptic Letters We Do Not Send that will probably make no sense to people outside my work. (And to people inside my work ( Read more... )