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I Win At Life
Just thought I'd point that out ( Read more... ) -
The Art of Improvement
Something's been bugging me lately. All day long, everywhere I go, I hear my acquaintances make elegant and proud speeches about some amazing thing they did that morning. "I can't believe I woke up at three in morning to finish this!" "It's a long drive to get to work, and sometimes I don't want to take it, but I take it anyway, because I'm ( Read more... ) -
The First Eight Propositions on the Ballot
I'm running late. :P Time is running out for me to figure out what all these propositions are, so I'm looking them up in digests. Cuz research is more fun when you blog about it afterward? I dunno.
What are YOU voting for?
PROPOSITION 1:
Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century
Will not be appearing on the ballot. But ( Read more... ) -
Things I've learned this month
As some of you may know, I've been a personal blogger since I was about 12 years old. I've been going to Ex'pression College just about four months now, and so much has happened that, as with most major points in my life, I feel obligated to stick it into the chronicles of my life, aka a blog somewhere. This is often all I can do to help people ( Read more... ) -
BART Rappers
If you've lived in the Bay Area long enough, you know who they are. You can hear their music leaking out of low-quality earphones set on full blast, or sometimes out of old-school boomboxes two seats away from you, also full blast. It's scratchy, the beats are weak, fake, and synthesized, and the lyrics are, to put it as politely as possible, crap ( Read more... ) -
Fatherless Homes
People think that by labeling myself a Feminist, I am silently proclaiming to the world that I hate men. I don't. Feminists aren't all lesbians. I love men. I'm in love with a man. I can't generalize the other half of the human race into a bunch of dogs who do nothing but fuck, eat, drink, and beat on their women when the urge hits them. No good ( Read more... ) -
I Do Not Approve of: Anti-Choice Activists
Last Monday there was some news in The Oregonian about a man intending to build a Planned Parenthood in North Portland, Oregon ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme!
Because I am a library staff person, and I liek bookz.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strikethrough the books you will go out of your way to avoid reading.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I avoid her because Lifetime loves her so much.)
2 The Lord of the ( Read more... )
