I'm listening to my World Music station on Pandora, and suddenly this song "Road to Benares" by Thunderball comes on. And I think, this song would be the perfect background to a video montage of me, here alone in my sweats and with my mug of coffee. The screen would flash pictures of me in various uncomfortable positions in our office chair, typing ( Read more... )

As some of you know, my past job was working with a non-profit agency that helped many people with economic, educational, and advocacy issues. Through this job, I met a few incredible people my age or younger who would benefit from the DREAM Act, which will hopefully come up for a vote sometime next week. The DREAM Act would provide a way for ( Read more... )

An update: Before the Arizona law has even gone into effect, a US citizen has been stopped and taken to jail for not having sufficient documentation on him. I feel so bad for these people. The husband was stopped and asked for his identification, and showed his commercial driver's license and gave his social security number, but was taken to jail ( Read more... )

Still working on finding a job/figuring out what I want in terms of a job-to-school ratio, so I've been at home (except for a few lovely days in Florida!) doing random paperwork things for Ben's work, school, and moving, and then doing/procrastinating doing homework. But I have been reading a lot (for pleasure, even!), so that's been nice, although ( Read more... )

I *just* realized today, as I was walking out the door, that I didn't know the Spanish word for muffins. Is that not crazy that I've been studying/speaking Spanish for 11 years now, and I didn't know the word for my favorite food?! That blew my mind. Doesn't seem like there's a fantastic translation out there either. I got "mollete" from the OED, ( Read more... )

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I thought this might interest some of you. It's an article from the local on-line paper about a former fire marshal's experience with ATS. Very curious indeed.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/01/the_marshals_st.php

So I'm risking my life by attempting to come home tonight by train. Crowded, crowded, sold out train. Hopefully 5 hours of standing is not on the holiday-fun agenda. ''XD
But I am coming back to VA. And you know what that means, friends who live near me. Oh yes you do. So call me. :D

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I will update with five sentences so that this is not a complete waste of a post. :D ( Read more... )