Dear Adam ( Read more... )

     Lemme expand on that ( Read more... )

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you do for others and let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
And may you stay forever young.

--Bob Dylan

It embarrases me to do this but I think I kinda got some decent stuff out of it:

LJ Interests meme results

1. breadmaking:
   I'm a microbiologist, and I don't drink alcohol, so its either this or cheese. And I'm fond of bread, the texture of dough, the process of zymoculture to get the right rise, the way the house smells, having something complex and ( Read more... )

     Some other opinions of the Other Annie Proulx Movie®: Eherensteinland, David Ehrenstein at HuffingtonPost, and Adam Mars-Jones at Guardian Unlimited.
     For the record: I haven't seen it, so I really have no opinion as of yet; however I'm probably gonna wait on this one -- I'm just not a fan of Westerns.  Even though its really a movie about ( Read more... )

     The problem with writing in the middle of the night to ward off sleeplessness (which I've bourne since April, when UMD let me go -- my schedule's flipped completely around) is that you affect a Bret Easton Ellis style of storytelling (start in mid sentence in medias res, end in mid sentence with only a few items really resolved) to consceal ( Read more... )

    Shower.  Teeth.  Strong coffee.
    There is a familiar mixture of hope and dispair and ( Read more... )

    I had a delayed insight tonight, at the Batchelor's Hall, watching the guys spin and swagger to "Atlantis". It went like this.
   I was driving back from my therapist with my aunt in the passenger's seat (long story, when I feel equal to it). We were talking family stuff.
     "Oh, your mother used to go everywhere ( Read more... )

I'm linking to dhpbear's site for the photo, as I have none of my own.

Cherish your friends. Do the work you must do as quickly as possible. Be well, everyone.


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Ladies and gentlemen, there are two things I'd like you to do. Trust me, honest, trust me, I wouldn't steer you wrong ( Read more... )