I'm in Oregon visiting family, and watching the local news. The last day was all sorts of dire warnings about the dastardly weather -- after watching it and getting freaked out myself about a trip to visit my family in the backwoods at a higher elevation where snow can really fall, I see why my mother freaks out so much about the weather. My poor ( Read more... )

anyone have good experiences with cruelty-free traps or electronic mice repeller noise-makers? i have a mouse (or 3 -- don't know how many) and refuse poison and killer traps. and can't have a cat in the place because of baaad allergies. but i have to get rid of the mice. it's gross. has anyone else conquered this problem?

I don't have really conventional tastes in men, I guess, since Russell Crowe is supposed to be so hot but doesn't do anything for me. Nevertheless I'm watching Oprah's Oscars show (too exhausted to do anything of use, not quite ready to sleep, that's my excuse), and Nicole Kidman asked Crowe, "What was the most significant kiss of your life?" And ( Read more... )

it sure looks pretty, but it took me 2.5 hours to get home and i hurt my back shoveling. which is the only exercise i'm getting cuz i'm not going back out in that for tai chi class. *sigh*.

Happy Samhain and Happy Halloween, all!

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i hate chain letters of all kinds, and i pretty much always break them. maybe that would explain certain forms of bad luck that plague me. but today i found a very sweet link via The Skeptical Inquirer. i have a love/hate relationship with that journal. my mentor in college used to read it. i love and miss him so much. he was so loved at our ( Read more... )

i'm still stuck on the concept of "free will." this sht has been bothering me since approximately 1982. what does it mean? what does it mean to make choices? by the time we take an action, were there really other courses of action we could have taken? what does it mean to "decide" something ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to Effeminasculine!!

i'm really excited because i just took a tai chi class and the teacher said "i was a natural" and she had never seen a first time student do so well. i told her i had taken some tai chi a long time ago, and also done some qi gong. but i didn't do it for a very long time before. i did do a lot of karate, at which i was definitely unnatural ( Read more... )