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Well, LJ, you kind of asked for it. Few people (that I know) seem to be left here, making this an ideal place to post again ( Read more... )

Just checking in! 

The storms have blown all the hot weather away, and the air is almost crisp. Hooray!

In other news, today I got two fillings at the Gucci dentist  and our dryer broke. Not hooray. 

After nearly three years in the UK, I am starting to think more about writing. I've gotten completely out of the habit -- not just LJ, but keeping my own journal and the big stack of poetry I'd been working on. I honestly believe it was the trauma of leaving and trying to get used to everything being upside down. I think I've been a bit shell ( Read more... )

My first wedding anniversary weekend - even talking about "my anniversary," makes me feel like an old married lady, but in a good way ( Read more... )

Good Golly. Just watched an episode of Panorma about racist, violent, anti-Semitic, football supporters in the Ukraine and Poland. Apparently there's a club of supporters that likes to give the old Nazi salute. In addition to setting things on fire in stadiums and wearing their white power gear, one set of them does militia style training and has a ( Read more... )

I am really doing a lousy job. Meh ( Read more... )

I'm going to be brave here, and leave this public. Who knows what kind of spam will appear! I spent some time today looking at videos of the Occupy Wall Street protests. It's interesting to contrast the kinds of people who appear in videos from various media sources ( Read more... )

I know I am not the first person to say this, but the idea that "LiveJournal is now the main communications resource of civil society in Russia,” Tomsk political activist Victor Korb wrote on his blog. “For all of LiveJournal’s many software weaknesses, it is far and beyond other social networks in its accessibility and its serious and active ( Read more... )