Dedicated to all of my amazing friends who teach.This is one of the best things anyone has ever shared with me, and I feel compelled to share it with everyone that I can (and delirious enough to think posting to my lj is a good way to do that). Taylor Mali is an 8th grade teacher who also happens to be a slam poet, and this is one of my favorite ( Read more... )

Has a nice ring to it, does it not ( Read more... )

I think I will always remember today as the absolute moment when I knew for sure that my relationship with my current flame was over, as he had found another. I've tried to be supportive of the motorcycle thing, and I was genuinely excited for him about his plans to upgrade to the bike he REALLY wanted. However, at 3:47 p.m. (EST) this afternoon ( Read more... )

Words rock. Derh. Do any of you guys (I like to pretend sometimes that more than 2 people actually read this thing) have favorite words? Care to share?

One of my all-time favorite words is Cadence. Something beautiful about it, I think. I also particularly like ennui and fuselage.

Also...fun with BOOBS!

During a conversation about thongs, I made a comment that I cannot understand the "point" of T-back, string thongs. Thongs have so little material as it is, but with these, you might as well just go commando. I also expressed my impression that these T-back string thongs might actually chafe something fierce since it's such a small string of ( Read more... )

It's the Bourne Identity in real life!

This is for those of you who say you feel "safer" having to take off your shoes, etc. when going through security checkpoints in airports or federal buildings. I post this because I think it's more an example of the NORM, rather than an exception. Do you still feel comfortable giving up certain liberties for the sake of "security"?**

The GAO also ( Read more... )

I have always thought I'd have been a better man than I am a woman. I just found a love note that I wrote for someone awhile back, and it totally affirms what an awesome guy I would have been. Chicks would totally fall for this stuff:

Sometimes I just look at you when you're not looking back and I fall so deeply in love with you in that moment ( Read more... )

I was NOT selected today to be a federal petit juror for this case today (the one listed at the bottom of the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_and_Elaine_BrownRead more... )

Getting close with someone -- be it during conversation or a make-out session-- is really hard when the other person's breath makes you nauseas. It is one of my biggest turn-off's, yet it's something that everyone deals with sometimes (myself included) and one of the hardest things to tell someone about. You can tell someone if they have ( Read more... )