this NIU thing... why does these keep happening? It seems like I remember NIU starting a psi chapter when I was active and being part of our district, which just makes it hit closer to home. No one loves a college campus more than I do, and any of us that went to Kent know how much a tragedy like this puts an indelible blemish of horror and pain ( Read more... )

It is winter, it is -20 which means staying home or making all traveling short and deliberate. I've gotten stuck in the cycle of letting Ella watch a fair amount of the five or six kid shows I let her watch. Which means lots of Wow Wow Wubbzy, Yo Gabba Gabba, etc, and the simplistic songs get stuck in my head along with the equally simplistic ( Read more... )

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Friends Only Kids!

I have to say that nelly furtado is a talentless hack. I saw her on SNL and she was such a blatant ripoff of that Fergie girl from black eyed peas I can't believe someone hasn't kicked her face in. She's disgusting.

These babies are constantly in the news here and I have to admit that I'm fascinated with them too.

http://www.in-forum.net/collections/index.cfm?collection=carlsentwins

how true...

What does your future hold?

You will eat lots of cheese


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"The lover of flowers may derive deep pleasure from flowers through his senses without knowledge or thought of the physics or chemistry of their structure. So it is possible to enjoy and perform music without insight or knowledge of its true nature; but the musician who knows his medium and thinks intelligently about it has a vastly greater ( Read more... )