I don't participate often in car-to-car conversation - for various reasons. But the opportunity presented itself and I was feeling audacious ( Read more... )

I have the "conjunction junction, what's your function?" song stuck in my head. It makes me miss summer.

( things that keep my eyes starry )

"Or maybe he's stoned out of his GOURD" - driving with my dad

I have this little sticker that says "don't worry" on it. I've had so many opportunities to lose that thing, but it always comes back to me somehow. I kind of like that.

( 'You know it's a bad sign when you start relating to songs on the radio.' )

"After hearing the news that Pluto had been demoted from its full planetary status in the solar system, Meg and I decided to hold a contest to find a new mnemonic device for the planets, replacing the old "My very elegant mother just served us nine pizzas" (among others). The mnemonic could work for either the new 8 planet line-up, the 8 major + 3 ( Read more... )

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"The hoses were attached at spigots that stood out of the brick foundations of the houses. The nozzles were variously set but usually so there was a long sweet stream of spray, the nozzle wet in the hand, the water trickling the right forearm and the peeled-back cuff, and the water whishing out a long loose and low-curved cone, and so gentle a ( Read more... )

You know how there's that rule against standing on swivel-y chairs? It's common sense. But every so many people you get someone like me. Who gets too cocky with their balancing skills, who thinks they have it figured out. And at first it seems like you do. Perhaps a couple months pass, accident-free ( Read more... )

Hah, I am such a twerp.
and I'm really sad that Dan's Joanna Newsom site has exceeded its bandwith limit
A version of peach, plum, pear that doesn't make me wince

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"Nowhere is the college admissions mystique made more manifest than in the workings of the College Board-Educational Testing Service ( Read more... )