100 Book Challenge
In 2011 I am taking part in the 50 Book Challenge (I’ve actually pushed it to 100, but whatever). The challenge is pretty simple- I started on December 29th, 2010 and the aim is to have 100 books finished by December 29th, 2011. This LJ is where I will track my progress.

January

1. Life Before Man- Margaret Atwood
February
2. A ( Read more... )

 One of the best Beatles songs ever is "The Inner Light", a criminally underrated masterpiece which borrows heavily from Indian music and The Tao Te Ching. The lyrics, based on Chapter 23-24 of The Tao Te Ching, go as such:

Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
With out looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven

The ( Read more... )

I'm not the best Jew. I am the product of an interfaith marriage, so in the eyes of many, I am not a Jew at all, but I don't hold much stock in their opinion. But I have to admit I don't do a good job in keeping up practice. I don't keep kosher (though as an on-again-off-again vegetarian I guess my vegetarian periods, this one I hope is permanent, ( Read more... )

100 Book Challenge
In 2011 I am taking part in the 50 Book Challenge (I’ve actually pushed it to 100, but whatever). The challenge is pretty simple- I started on December 29th, 2010 and the aim is to have 100 books finished by December 29th, 2011. This LJ is where I will track my progress.

January

1. Life Before Man- Margaret Atwood 
February 
2. A ( Read more... )

 I have a love-hate relationship with the wedding industrial complex. I truly do. On the one hand, I just squeal over beautiful wedding gowns, and I have been planning my own unique and totally off-kilter-but-beautiful-and-memorable wedding since I was old enough to comprehend that *I* got to call the shots on how my wedding was going to be. On the ( Read more... )

 So, one hour after I got home, the university and the city of Missoula stopped running the buses. The nightmarish howling going on right now outside of my window is something that would make Poe's knees buckle, and the snow drifts are up to my hips. I think it is safe to assume that tomorrow, I will not be able to make it to school. So I am ( Read more... )