For those of you who might be looking for someone to walk all over... PICK ME!  Please.  I mean literally.  I'm in pain.  Academe has made me soft, and I have apparently forgotten what real physical labor is like, or what it feels like, anyway ( Read more... )

You scored as Eclectic Pagan. A veritable blend of all the pantheons and perhaps a dash of a few other religions as well, you're the versitile Ecclectic Pagan.  You have no problem wearing an ankh while setting an offering to Herne on your alter just below your image of Hera.  You don't believe in coloring within the lines, and are a bright free- ( Read more... )

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It's done, little dream, it's done.
Bid me a fond farewell;
we both had our fun.

Was it Romeo or Juliet who said,
when about to die:
"Love is not all peaches and cream"?

Little dream,
goodbye.

Weren't we fools to lose each other?
Weren't we daft to say goodbye?
Though I know we loved each other,
you chose another;
so did I.
To know that love was worth defending:
love's broken threads we might be mending,
sewing some sort of different ending,
happy just to try.
But we were fools, you and I.

1. Take the nearest five thick books. If you don't have five thick books near you, go to the bookshelf. If you're too lazy to do that, use fewer than five ( Read more... )

OK....that's eerily, almost, not even a gag.  Could be... a revelation of alternate lives ( Read more... )

"backstairs and love affairs ( Read more... )

Here is a list of 110 most-banned books. Bold ones you've completely read. Italicize those you partially read.

#1 The Bible (NIV):  actually, for me, it was the NSRV. I too would probably ban the NIV.
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: didn't ( Read more... )

I'm off for the weekend, headed to the approximate metroplex.  Going to spend the next few days with my little brother and blow off 4 months worth of steam.  I can't remember the last time I had two consecutive days to do as I pleased.  Yay for me ( Read more... )