Or maybe not so long-awaited. I seem to have lost some readers recently. And I also lost someone who I thought wanted to be my friend. I haven't made a lot of friends in my life, and none within recent memory, so I thought that this was a nifty development. But now she's gone. We went from talking and having fun to being bitter enemies, it ( Read more... )

Nohari

"It's not looting if you're white."

(More information here in this Salon.com article)

Ahhh, yes. Reminds me of the good old days, when starving people were jailed for stealing bread.

"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

I'm still alive, but barely. This last week has worn me out. Classes are still going great, and I'm getting better settled in to the job here. I just think I need a break. I'm glad I have a three-day weekend coming up to provide me with one (possibly ( Read more... )

Well, M. (from the entire child-abuse uproar of about a month ago) got in touch with me this past weekend ( Read more... )

I haven't done a realy update to my journal in several days, so I might as well do it now while I have something resembling the time ( Read more... )

My uncle has decided that he is going to move after all.

Heh. I must really be out of the loop lately ( Read more... )

My uncle decided not to move.