And it is certain that nobody calls me the gangstress of love. Or Maurice, for that matter ( Read more... )

I took my four-year-old nephew to the annual deep-sea fishing rodeo yesterday. Our first stop was the record-breaking catches display.

"Why aren't they talking like Nemo, Aunt Katie?"

"Because they are dead and will soon be gobbled up."

Later on, we paid a visit to the reptilian freak show display, featuring snakes and turtles either albino or ( Read more... )

So, my friend died half a year ago ...  I keep mentioning that, I think.  I don't care.  Beginning again, then:

So, my friend died half a year ago and, naturally, I've come not to expect her name to appear on my buddylist as being online.  I have to say, it did in fact take me about two or three months before I quit looking.  It's a gradual process ( Read more... )

but I realized that's all I ever do these days, so here are a few words on life ( Read more... )

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other ...


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Build your own Southpark character.  Glompingly snagged from darwinpolice .  Here I am:


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MY PROFESSOR IS A FARKING CREATIONIST AND PASTOR OF A PENTECOSTAL CHURCH!

God love you, Miss Ippy.

At least we get to dissect a kitty cat. Meow.

...I don't want to go on the cart ( Read more... )

So, ass surgery happens in 5.75 hours.  After they remove the cyst and outlying dead tissue from near my tailbone (2.5x1x2"), I will be sewn up with a drainage tube inserted for maximum humiliation.  I will be stuck lying on my stomach for two weeks until the stitches come out.  Here is an accurate depiction of how I'm feeling about this at the ( Read more... )

... and I'm loving it.  I bought A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World and stayed in bed all day reading.  It basically begs the question, since the modern idea of privacy only came to light in the 19th century, how was it defined in other times?  There is a second book concerning Roman to Byzantine periods which I will ( Read more... )