It's been on repeat all day long. It makes me feel very sad, but I can't stop listening to it.

I am really excited about finishing my thesis, because when I am done I am going to start making my costume for graduation. If you have read Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, you may recall Herne the Hunter. He has deer antlers and leads a pack of demonic ( Read more... )

 So there's this sweet little cat in my bed right now. His name is Buddy. He looks like this:


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 Last night I was reading an article for my thesis called "Communists, Klansmen, and the CIO in the Florida Citrus Industry." And then I ran across this paragraph:

"The UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) local at Frostproof demanded and recieved a contract from W. J. Cody of the Producers Citrus ( Read more... )

 OUCH.

I found a great website today! It has absolutely the most useful, informative yeast infection page I've ever seen in my entire life. And at the moment I am THE leading expert on yeast infection sites, so I feel pretty confident in this assertion. The site is called VAGINA PAGINA.

Their mission statement says,

"VaginaPagina is an online community ( Read more... )

Tuesday evening TM answered his phone and it was Jaclyn, asking for me. She sounded like she'd been crying. At first I thought something had happened to Cindy, but she told me they'd just caught Horace. Fuck. They caught Horace. I drove home and there he was, in the pet carrier, crying and carrying on. It was late in the day, but luckily I'd ( Read more... )

TO LI CHIEN, by Po Chu-I

[a.d. 818]

The province I govern is humble and remote;
Yet our festivals follow the Courtly Calendar.
At rise of day we sacrificed to the Wind God,
When darkly, darkly, dawn glimmered in the sky.
Officers followed, horsemen led the way;
They brought us out to the wastes beyond the town,
Where river mists fall heavier than rain,
And ( Read more... )

 I know so much about citrus now that sometimes I find myself considering going to Florida Southern and getting a citrus degree. I don't know what I'd do with it. But I bet I would do something fun. I really like talking to growers.

It's happening again, it's making me crazy: I'm craving the east coast. There's something about the wide ocean that haunts me in the evenings. It's the deep blue just before the sky fades to black, the blue that reminds me of the sea at night, the blue that the Gulf can never satisfy. Last summer I strode across the state into the arms of my blood- ( Read more... )

I think over again my small adventures.
My Fears,
Those small ones that seemed so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing,
To live to see the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.

--Old Inuit Song