Ok, so I know some of you have been wondering if I got hit by a bus.  Well, yes, but only metaphorically.  Basically, I cut myself off from the internet during the election because I wasn't able to concentrate on my dissertation while reading polls 24-7.  Unfortunately, I thereby missed an essentially life-or-death email from GW.  Their response ( Read more... )

 Was I the only one who noticed (and I confess I might have been) that this country elected its first African-American president EXACTLY forty years and seven months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr?  Just saying.

 Will be at Slainte in Fells Point this Saturday at 9:30 am for Wales game.  Second game is 12:15.  Third is 2:15.  First two games are $20 (total), as they are live.  Third is free (as is the 4:15 game, but I'll be on my way to Bowie before then.)  Anyone who wants to join me is welcome.  WHEE!

 Saw a You Tube video of Michele Obama on Jay Leno, in which she said she'd gotten the outfit she was wearing at J Crew.  I thought, "Hm, I guess they've branched out from chinos and jeans.  I'll have to check out their website."  Now, I haven't shopped J Crew since maybe college (or even high school), because you could get similar things elsewhere ( Read more... )

(Feel free to sing along!)

Jill told Bill that it was lots of fun to cook.
Bill told Jill that she could bait a real fish hook.
So they made ooey-gooey chocolate cake,
Sticky-licky sugar top
And they gobbled it and giggled.
And they sat by the river and they fished in the water
And they talked as the squirmy wormies wiggled.
Singing...

Glad to have a friend ( Read more... )

 My neighborhood has acquired a new grocery store to replace the Giant that expired from neglect long before the company pulled the plug.  I went in last night because I was curious and I needed soda.  I am announcing that I walked in to the land of every-Asian-food-you-can-imagine.  So, if you want something Asian, let me know and I will endeavor ( Read more... )

 May I add to yesterday's election-coverage fueled rant that I am sick of being told that I am not a "real" American.  Apparently, you can't be a "real" American if you are any of the following ( Read more... )

 But, DAMN.  I am so sick of hearing about the moral quandary of Catholics who have to decide whether they can vote for a pro-choice candidate because the Vatican espouses a "Culture of Life".  PLEASE.  I'm certain that rank-and-file Catholics and even their priests and the church hierarchy truly believe that life begins at conception etc etc.   ( Read more... )

 
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...
Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.

10 Impressionist, 6 Islamic, 1 Ukiyo-e, -24 Cubist, -12 Abstract and 2 Renaissance!


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 I don't want to work on the dissertation today.  I want to work on the original story I started writing randomly a while back.  It's on the old (mostly dead) laptop.  It won't get out of my brain and has nothing to do with anything I need to be doing.  Damn it.  *sigh*  Back to 1968.