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Blogging elsewhere
As I have more or less completely abandoned LiveJournal, I thought I might mention that I've started blogging elsewhere.
I'm primarily writing about Quakerism (and my liberal Christian spiritual life generally), but I imagine other things will get thrown in. That's all, folks!
The Round Earth's Imagined Corners
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Bleak House
When I was young, I loved several things in my books: I loved my passionate fondness for the characters, to the point of believing them almost real, certainly having existences and thoughts and lives beyond the page. I loved how a good story made the world vanish, and for the space of a few hours (or however long I found to hole up with my book) I ( Read more... ) -
Collection of Unintentionally Hilarious Advice in my Women's Health Textbooks
1.) "Bathtubs should be washed after each use." From my Women's Gynecological Health text, on preventing yeast infections. Right. Every time I bathe, I immediately SCRUB WITH CHLOROX BECAUSE WOMEN ARE SO SO FILTHY ( Read more... ) -
The new Mrs. Z presents . . . her wedding day!
I don't generally care to be quite so personal and self-revealing on the internet . . . however, I know that there are lots of people (ahem, mother, ahem) who dearly wish to see all of these photos! So here you are. For mom, for everyone ( Read more... ) -
Call for a Sixpence!
All right, I'm not very traditional. My dress is a very non-white color (and I don't mean ecru or ivory), I'm not walking down an aisle, I wasn't even going to have cake (until my father took the matter into his own hands . . . )
But damn, I want a sixpence for my shoe!
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What planet are these people from?
Apparently, Obama's health care plan means that he is just like Hitler.Before we even go into the immense illogic of this statement, let me point out how grossly, repugnantly offensive this is to actual, real, victims of the actual, real, Holocaust (it HAPPENED, you know- it's not just a cute anecdote people can use to make points), many survivors ( Read more... ) -
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
In the past three days, I have ( Read more... ) -
Stop me before I read again!
The pile of books on my bedside table is growing shockingly huge, so I decided to see what I had gotten myself into by compiling an orderly list. Behold, my summer reading list. I'm in the middle of at least half of these, but if I finish them all by autumn it really will be a miracle.
Barclay, Robert. Barclay's Apology.
Bloom, Harold. Jesus and ( Read more... ) -
Call-bell Bebop
I snagged a sandwich at the cafeteria today around hour ten of a twelve hour shift. Things were slowing down, but I still had to sneak bites of sandwich in between transcribing orders and dispensing pain medication ( Read more... )