Enough of abstractions - mere chronology instead

In autumn of 1999 I was in Barnes & Noble where my selfish restiveness often took me of nights being single and thus "having no responsibilities" when I wasn't teaching CCD (but my father had sneered at me that I didn't really have a vocation, did I? and I couldn't just become a nun because I was " ( Read more... )

A repost of Night Watch Lessons for the day.

nenya_kanadka reminds me that a notable day is coming up on the Discworld calendar, and since I live in a place with a plethora of lilacs (it being the state flower, and brought over very early on from England, so that there are 250-year-old stands of lilac bushes trees, in the older settlements) so I snapped some photos over the weekend. Peak lilac was or ( Read more... )

or, EVERYONE expects the Omnian Quisition

[Crossposted from dKos. In response to ellisande's suggestion there, I also put all the Night Watch lectures into a single page on Odd Lots, here, for convenient download.]

He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn't that he's evil, but that he makes good people do evil. You can't help it. You catch it ( Read more... )