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What has South Carolina got that I don't?
Guy has gone to visit family and friends in South Carolina. We had a big fight Saturday night, which was a great way to go to bed when we had to get him to OAK at 3:30 in the morning. Yeesh. Anyway, I'm always amazed at how you can miss your significant other within hours just because you know he or she is far away, as if distance somehow ( Read more... ) -
Stayin' Alive
Not that anyone cares, but I'm still around.
My whole life has twisted, turned, and transformed into this new entity I'm still making myself familiar with. I did end up teaching--for about 6 months. During that time, I ended my relationship, began a new one, and learned that the profession we call "teaching" has so little to do with teaching as to ( Read more... ) -
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Ah, the country life.
I love it when I step outside for a moment of tranquility, get ready to sit down on the front porch, and find I've set my bare foot an inch away from a black widow. *blanches* -
Salami
So, I was having myself a salami sandwhich, reading the news, when I came across this, just as I was taking a bite. I don't know about you, but I had never realized before how much salami looks like body tissue. *gag*
On a visually more pleasant note, my friend Karen and I watched the Kiersten Dunst version of Marie Antoinette. Estetically stunning ( Read more... ) -
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I've been thinking lately about the intersection of lives, about the people who establish sudden, impactful presences in your life and then, weeks, months, perhaps years later, are gone, leaving fissures of various sizes in your mind. The hole left by any single person can never be filled by any other; perhaps the presence of new friends and lovers ( Read more... ) -
It's all over in T minus six days, 12 hours.
Merry Pagan Solstice Holiday.
Or,
Happy Commercial Secular Celebration.
Okay, Okay. Merry Effin' Christmas.
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Another semester bites the academic dust.
YAY ALL DONE!
Now I just have to get through these last five weeks of work, and after that, my life will be a hell of a lot easier (At least, that's the plan!).
My only concern about next semester is the possibility that I'll have the same problem I had last semester, when I had too much time on my hands, and got lazy and then got bad grades. I ( Read more... )