I have had the worst mood all day long. I suppose it started very early, about 7:35 am, when I stepped on my cat ( Read more... )

Since most people use their LJs to bitch and whine about everything that's going wrong in their lives, I thought I'd do just the opposite. And I have good reason(s) for doing so, namely ( Read more... )

I found this editorial most interesting ( Read more... )

I really need to stay away from all men during certain times of the month. I'm close to ovulating and I had a nice conversation with a guy I know a little, Richard, last night. Well, he thinks it was nice, I suppose: just the usual small talk. I was secretly picking out names for our babies.

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I didn't leave work today until 6:32 pm, according to the time clock. I had expected work to be hectic since my co-worker Barbara is on vacation this week, but on Wednesday we experienced what I believe NASA refers to as 'total system failure.' It started with a series of small mistakes that affected me and everyone else in my department. After ( Read more... )

I went to the Main Library on Saturday afternoon to hopefully meet two of the main characters of a book entitled Shadow Divers"which is about deep sea divers who discover a then-unknown World War II ( Read more... )

She isn't gone yet, but I miss her already. My friend Nekeidra, or Niki, has lived here for about 9 years. She decided to move to Florida from Pennsylvania at the age of 19, after vacationing with a friend for about 2-3 weeks here. During that time, she discovered a new profession (nursing) and took up Portugese. Now she's leaving for her home ( Read more... )

A book I had ordered arrived in the mail today, and I started reading it. It's a collection of essays on the world's most reowned mathematicians and their theories and proofs. One article concerned probability and the work of Pierre Simon de LaPlace. The closing sentence of that article reads:

"Surely the Mécanique céleste was Laplace's supreme ( Read more... )

I hate the new TV Guide. It doesn't so much resemble a guidebook for viewing television programs as it does one of the $1.99 tabloids marketed as "Celebrity Living" or "InTouch" at my grocery store. Although Ellen deGeneres as a guest columnist is a stroke of genius ( Read more... )