I wish I had more words for this. I had convinced myself that Kerry was going to pull it out. I've already cried, and I don't think I have any more tears for this. I feel numb ( Read more... )

So I call my leftist, Kerry-supporting family. My mother has been sitting in front of the radio/TV for three days. She has her map of the country, is checking off states as they are called, and is prepared to wait there "as long as it takes" to see who wins. My Father is cowering upstairs, avoiding all media, because he wants Kerry to win so badly ( Read more... )

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Yes, it's actually a non-friends-locked post! Not that people are really missing much ( Read more... )

Very quickly, since I really loved this idea, but I actually am going to go out and run errands ( Read more... )

Here is an article about the Iraqi football team (I'm suppressing my American urge to call it soccer -- I played the game for years, but it was called soccer here. What can I say, we are barbarians.) Anyway, the article it describes how they rock.
They stand up and say they do not want Dubya to use them as his political tool.Anyway, I was just ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say, I'm still trying to get my new computer up and running, so if you are expecting email from me and have not received any, that's why. Should be rectified shortly.

A few reasons for this post

1) I wanted to send all my hugs and good vibes to
ljs. {{Hugs}}

2) I wanted to give credit for this icon to mortari, and to sallyanne for the Lilah one ( Read more... )

Yep, I went to see Troy. At the end of the movie it said "Inspired by..." the actual source text ; ) ;) Which makes sense, because we are not talking a lot of accuracy here. But I enjoyed it because I wasn't excepting more that it promised ( Read more... )

I'm really too tired to write anything substantial at all tonight. But I saw the finale, and yes...( 5.22 spoilers )

I'm feeling very nostalgic about tonight. I haven't been thrilled about everything that happened on the show this year. But no other fantasy universe has ever meant to me what the Jossverse has, and Ats was my favorite part of it. Because of Wesley, who is MINE. And a lot of other people's too, of course ( Read more... )