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hey Jude
My kitten Julian died on Friday in Australia. I only found out about it on Saturday, when I finally managed to get in contact with Mum via Skype after a couple of weeks' worth of missed connections ( Read more... ) -
Best intentions, paved roads, blah blah blah.
Ciao a tutti! Come siete? Bene, spero!
Aaaand now that I'm done exercising my meagre Italian, here's a list of updates! From my life! That I've been living! In the US! \o/
- I'm settling in to university life here at UIUC. I'm only doing four classes, equating to 12 credit hours: Law & Communications, Government & Politics of Western Europe, and ( Read more... )
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Timshel
Guys. Guys, guys, guys. Go check this out. This, by the way, is the Amazon link to Timshel by Lillian Turner, aka stele3@IJ, aka an awesome human being with a great talent for writing who now has an actual book published OMG. You can buy it in eBook format from Amazon at that link, or from Barnes & Noble, and I believe you can get both the eBook ( Read more... ) -
Kitties! And a meme :)
A couple of weeks ago my mum brought Julian, on of my former foster kittens, home. Two weeks later, everyone's happy...except my cat Mitzie won't play with Julian because she's about 75 in human years and he's only about five, and so he's been kinda lonely. Which meant last Firday my mum went to pick up Julian's brother Max. So now we have three ( Read more... ) -
Today has been a Day
According to The Huffington Post, George Zimmerman is probably going to be charged for the death of Trayvon Martin (hereIf he really is charged, it apparently won't be with first-degree murder...first-degree murder charges require a grand jury in Florida, and the prosecutor isn't convening one. So...I guess a charge is better than no charge at all ( Read more... ) -
What. Utter. Bullshit.
Apparently it's OK to repeal equal pay because money is "more important" to men“You could argue that money is more important for men [...] I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true ( Read more... ) -
Lazy day
I meant to get up at a respectable hour this morning and go buy ( Read more... ) -
God damn *everything*, omg
So I was going to post about the awesomeness of Warrior*, but I've had to shelve that in favour of writing my Political Institutions final essay on the nuclear family.
And here's where I take time out of writing this freaking time-and-soul-suck of an essay to talk about how much I hate mandatory word counts. I seriously think a fair chunk of ( Read more... )