Here I am, slinking back to livejournal mostly because my lil sis is in bern and this way I can keep track of her. 

Using the most recent data available, a Times tally showed that hundreds of Gates Foundation investments - totaling at least $8.7 billion, or 41% of its assets, not including U.S. and foreign government securities - have been in companies that countered the foundation's charitable goals or socially concerned philosophy.

This is "the dirty secret" ( Read more... )

Attention Choral Nerds:
Did you know there was a Choral Wiki???!?!?!!

http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

so fucking cool.

It has been the most ridiculously quintessential fall that I can remember.  Perhaps it's this way every year but this fall has seemed overtly, archetypically beautiful.  Coldly sunny, cloudless days full of shockingly vibrant leaves and then, finally rain and wind and those shocking leaves flying around in the air, dancing with the rain.  Its so ( Read more... )

It's interesting to be so busy that I forget to care about things like doing the dishes and fixing the pillows on the couch.  Though, now that I write it, I'm compelled to fix them.  Anyway.  School started on monday which feels like it was about three weeks ago and although I'm not overwhelmed I think this is easily the busiest I've been in recent ( Read more... )

I usually don't have a problem maintaining friendships and understanding those that I consider friends.  When I suddenly do have a problem and it becomes alarmingly clear that I have been totally misinterpreting another's actions and friendship level, I get upset.  And then when I realize that I've been totally wrong about a person for YEARS, its ( Read more... )

While in NYC I bought a set of salr and pepper shakers at the moma design store.  I love them- they are highly anthropomorphosized and adorable - they look a little like ghosts and they hug eachother, but now, whenever I seperate them, I feel bad that they can't continue hugging each other.   Sometimes, I got to have my salt seperate from my pepper ( Read more... )

Who loves movies?  Who thinks they can run an art-house movie theater?  Well I have a job for you!  The Grand Cinema is looking for an executive director and I think it might be a pretty sweet job.  You!  Yes you, make movies happen in t town.

I really really want this ( Read more... )

Proto-Indo-European dorsals ( Read more... )