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I wonder if we'll ever understand what happened that day in 2001:

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/06/flight-of-capital.html

A book already on the shelf caught my eye as I was putting books up, because it had a colorful bookmark sticking out of its top. The book is called Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid and is a collection of "Scary Urban Legends." I pulled the book out to look at the cover, and saw a blurb by Orson Scott Card on the back that I feel I have to share. From the ( Read more... )

Apartment hunting week began at 9:15 on Monday morning. Each day before heading off to work at the library, I've driven criss-cross stripes through Birmingham, called randomly-spotted "Lease" or "For Rent" numbers, and even gotten in to see a bunch of places, for anywhere between four(Monday) and six and-a-half yesterday: no library work)hours each ( Read more... )

I spent this morning apartment hunting, and I'll do the same every day the rest of this week and as long as I need to to find a good place for me and Jenni to live. I was coasting on my own nerve earlier today, but now that I'm off my scooter and sitting here behind a desk at work, I feel a bit nervous about it all. I realize that going out ( Read more... )

Sad.

Sick:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060530/ap_on_go_pr_wh/brf_bush_united93_1

Woot! At about 4:30 (slightly less than an hour from now) I'm leaving here to go meet jenni stright out of her workplace and we're headed on up directly from there to Huntsville to drop off the kitty on the way to Wiscon! It's Jenni's birthday to-day. I love her so very much! Wish us luck...

I was in good spirits today, until ( Read more... )

First off, American approval of Resident Bush has fallen to 29%. Let's see what happens after tonight's presidential address in which GW tries to make a case for sending 5000+ soldiers fresh (or not-so-fresh) from multiple tours in Iraq, to the US-Mexico border to aim guns at the desperately poor trying to get here from there ( Read more... )