31 marines killed today in chopper crash.
total US now up to 1417.
how many more?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/26/iraq.main/index.html

if any word can be said in conjuction with the word "right", it should never be taken away. the right to an abortion is just as much of a right as free speech.
Abortion protesters marched though chilly Washington yesterday emboldened by Republican election gains they said gave new momentum to their 32-year fight to overturn Roe v. Wade. President ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's plenty to be twenty...so i guess that means you shouldn't get any older :-P

still slightly intimidated.
so out of shape.

but i think i'm hooked.

and i like that thought.

but why does my toe hurt?

Just wanted to make sure everyone had seen this update on Shawn.

but on a lighter note,

we get to study TREES in ecology lab!!!!

so we can spend $190,000 per person for a 3 hour trip into space but can't supply mosquito nets that costs less that $5 each to save the 150,000 people (mostly children) who die in Africa every month from malaria?

if the roman catholic church of spain thinks that condoms might help slow the spread of AIDS, why doesn't anyone else?

the terrible ( Read more... )

the first sentence of my first post of every month of 2004 (stolen from brian), because, well, everyone else is doing it [with only a few small instances of cheating ( Read more... )

my head is definitly a masshole.
but my heart is a mainer.
why can't they ever agree? ;)

guess that means i'll be living in MA with a cottage on the coast in southern ME. maybe that job at some nonprofit conservation org isn't going to work out so well...

and the one andrews ave house is pink now. not yellow. and they put on an addition. and my ( Read more... )

Of a Forgetful Sea
by Kelli Russell Agodon

Sometimes, I forget the sun ( Read more... )