Mom just called to check that I got in OK. She said to my grandmother that when she got home from work today she felt sad that I wasn't there anymore.

I'll be back around Christmas...

Whew, it feels good to be home. I missed my cat, my boyfriend, my bed, my home. At the same time it was exhillerating to be back in the city again. Jacksonville is so spread out. There is nothing even close to Cambridge here. It was so hard to do everything/see everyone I really wanted to while there, yet, I feel like I've been gone for a long ( Read more... )

There really aren't many phone booths around anymore. Everyone's got a cell phone. Payphones are a rare sight...and phone BOOTHS even less common. But someone had a bright idea in Provincetown, MA. Use those phone booths to house ATM machines!


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I'm headed to Boston tomorrow. It will be my first time going home since I moved to what often feels like Africa. I think I'll enjoy the smell and feel of fall settling in. It will be fantastic to see my family and friends and eat Ana's Taqueria and work with another human being for a few days. I've got lots of people to see so it will likely ( Read more... )

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb ( Read more... )

So with the recent event of Hurricane Katrina had me looking at the Red Cross website. I was reading the history of the organization. All good stuff. Then I got to the last paragraph:

While closely associated with the federal government in the promotion of its objectives, the Red Cross is an independent, volunteer-led organization, financially ( Read more... )

This weekend Jim and I went down to Titusville, FL to meet up with my parents for a couple of days. The place we stayed at looked nice online, but when we got there we realized it was a HoJo's turned HoBo's. Man, it was BAD. And at $60 a nite, HORRENDOUS. We all just dealt with it because we had such limited time to visit and really didn't want ( Read more... )

So I'm at the car dealership today waiting for my car to be fixed and this older woman asks me if I want to buy one of her fundraiser candy bars. Sure, I'll buy one. How much? Oh, they're a dollar...they are for our prison ministry. Mmmmm-k...never heard that one before!

- When a lizard's tail is pulled off, the tail continues to wriggle around for about 15 minutes ( Read more... )

We were supposed to be defending ourselves...not trying to convert the world to our way of seeing things ( Read more... )