Dear November ( Read more... )

We've been repainting the exterior of our house, and it is almost done. It has been almost done since last fall. It has seemed since then that we could make it rain by being able to paint. We were single-handedly responsible for the easing of the drought earlier this summer by being home, only to selfishly plan things on weekends that made ( Read more... )

I've had some thoughts about politics lately, mainly about the Republican party, that I want to get "on paper," mainly for my own use, although (serious) counterarguments and reported flaws in my reasoning are always extremely welcome. It's long. To make it easier for everybody to avoid entry into a political discussion (always a dicey ( Read more... )

( Point Blank didn't originally mean exactly what it has come to mean today (firing at extremely close range), although it is pretty clear how it came to have that meaning. )

My robot overlords protectors have asked me to share. So I share!

The art blog of ego_likeness.

Lyrics quiz!

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Due to user error, it looks like I'll have to wait until Summer or Fall to graduate.

Marylanders, sign here.

Please. For the children. (The grown up, wine-swilling children.)

"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."

I love listening to Barak Obama speak. But I find myself tensing up whenever I see him, as some part of me anticipates the voice of those afraid of change spoken through the crack of a rifle. Still, he gives me hope that maybe things will get better. I am a realist (but not that kind of realist, Ceciskittle) and know things aren't magically ( Read more... )