I had a long, complicated rant written out here, and I just highlighted the whole of it and hit the 'delete' key.  The rant was a response to two main things: the comment thread on this article and other similar sentiments I've read/heard recently, and an acquaintance stating matter of factly (read: not as a personal opinion or belief) that God ( Read more... )

I stumbled across braininajar.com yesterday and laughed until I cried. If you're looking to kill time, check it out.

But for now, go here: http://www.braininajar.com/Postcard_Sputnik/Genres/Incongruities.htm
About halfway down the page, there's a "Kiss from Kansas City" postcard. The message written on the postcard inexplicably turns into gibberish ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I randomly remembered a video that we watched in school when I was in first grade. It was a kids' fantasy movie about a town whose color had been stolen... and there's a puppet that sings "Be Kind to your Webfooted Friends"... and a woman in striped leggings leads a couple of kids around the town. She ends up spraining her ankle ( Read more... )

My mom and I are planning a trip to Prince Edward Island at the end of the summer...


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Woo! My mornings are about to get a lot better. I had an 8:00 AM Tai Chi class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I pretty much only scheduled so that I'd have enough credits. Although Tai Chi isn't so bad (aside from how the "chi" almost made me pass out), I'm really worn down. I tutor until 9 or 10 PM on weeknights, so coming home late and waking ( Read more... )

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Stolen from Nicki!

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Answer the "Career Matchmaker" questions (5-10 mins).
4. Post the top ten results.

My Results:

1. Writer
2. Translator
3. Critic
4. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
5. Association Manager
6. Foreign Language Instructor
7. ESL Teacher
8. Editor
9. Art ( Read more... )

After lunch on Monday, I suddenly felt insanely itchy all over. A firey, vaguely throat constricting sort of itching. After work, I whipped off my scrub shirt and found out that I was breaking out in hives. Seems that I'm allergic to shrimp. Huh. I guess if I have to have a food allergy, I should be glad that it's a food that I don't like that much

Another quick post, just to say that the other day I FINALLY figured out where I had seen the actor who plays Linderman on Heroes....


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I've been cranking out my final Italian essay, and I just realized something when I typed this:

On the first Thursday in May, there is a festival called the Festival of Serpent Handlers in Cocullo, a small town in Abruzzi. Outside of the church of San Domenico, several men carry a large wooden statue representing this saint. The men hide the statue ( Read more... )