I guess I no longer feel like the same person I did when I started this journal. I used to change journals every year, but it's been years since I've done that. I'll miss teir_garten, but this new one promises to be hot.

contre-danse. Add it si ti piace.

http://www.projo.com/news/content/E_Cigarettes_04-15-09_UAE0J6L_v14.273682d.html

PROVIDENCE - The last time Frank Meglio smoked a cigarette he had to plug it in and charge it. Then the 38-year-old Providence man inhaled through the white ( Read more... )

For the first time in what seems like years, I put down a nonfiction book in favor of something fiction. Not only that, but the subject matter - vampires, teen angst, and twisted romance - could not have been any father from the subject matter of my recent reading explorations; topics such as Iran-USA historical relations, capitalism, ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7897802.stm

A teacher in Italy has been suspended after some students complained that he removed a crucifix from his classroom.Franco Coppoli, a literature teacher from Umbria, took down the crucifix in his classroom arguing that ( Read more... )

Found this via a friend in the UK. It's a quote from Tony Blair on his speech to Barack Obama. In this particular portion of the speech, Blair was discussing his spiritual awakening and how it effected his presidency.

"I do not mean by this to blur the correct distinction between the realms of religious and political authority. In Britain we are ( Read more... )

I need movie recommendations. I've slowly been outfitting my collection with some of my favorites, but I'd like to build it up some more. And considering the depressingly few movies I've seen, I'm at a loss.

LJ: Top 5 favorite movies of all time. Post haste.

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I constantly alternate between person and social fulfillment. One day I wake up and decide that I need more books, so I'll scour the $3.99 bin at Border's in search of some book, usually non-fiction, that will somehow broaden my understanding of the world. I've bought a lot of books recently.

The one I'm reading now is called Dead Certain: The ( Read more... )

I can't help but do these stupid surveys every year. I know how dumb they tend to be, but I can't resist.
( Survey Under Cut )

I made Jeff a mix tape the other day (a real mix tape. As in, from the 80s.)
( Track Listing Behind the Cut )