Hello, LiveJournal.

It is true that my plans, as such, have faltered, all over the place, so much they almost can't be charted anymore, so I just have to make up some new ones and try to chart new territory.

Observing a documentary about the presidential candidates I noticed that in comparison all of my grandfathers have either passed away and/or ( Read more... )

My mother had told me so much about how hard that project was for her.

Maybe I'll wait for another time. I am somewhat happy with my Hadrian's Wall in the days of the Romans book. The drawings are admirable, although sometimes I do enter a strange hypnotic state while looking at them. I have only vaguely heard about, like, the Picts and stuff, but ( Read more... )

Hello LJ.

My Indian-American colleague Arjun was in my Latin class in high school, but I stopped talking with him a long time ago, BUT IT IS NOT BECAUSE OF RACISM.
(He may have been also in my middle school class when I was yea-high when it seemed to me like EVERYONE AND THEIR MOM was taking Latin. At least, MY mother kept telling me how extremely ( Read more... )

In 10 days, which is two hundred forty hours, or 14,400 minutes, or 864,000 seconds, I will have a book from England that I had ordered because the copy from the library was damaged beyond recognition.

My thinking was that the seller would package what I purchased well enough to protect it from the journey, while what I had loaned from the library ( Read more... )

Like m, M., and ... I THINK Magikarp...?? I just remember surfing up and down that 8 or 15 square grid extremely persistently when I was this little eight-year old, hiding my GBC deftly among the pages of my textbooks and notebooks as the days passed, with the sound turned off, to conceal my movements.

I did that since I read on a guide somewhere ( Read more... )

Often I elect to participate in surveys on the Internet, but they end quickly after asking for my age.


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Dollar stores, according to the article I just read, have been struggling in comparison with the other places out there such as Walmart (and it left out Amazon).

Also, some woman was set aflame by an ex, which is a bit more startling.

I am going to fly off soon enough to the library when it opens in about half an hour. I have some holds to pick up ( Read more... )

Here is an article: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/model-embryo-from-stem-cells

I have been staring at it for the past two days, somewhat dumbstruck, to be 100% honest.

As I wrote before, I don't fully understand it as is, but I am excited for when I am able to ( Read more... )

Maybe I had just missed Mandatory Naptime. The other bafflement was that I continually had not been spelling things as well as I had intended to do in a personal message. My second hypothesis is that I have not been able to eat as well as I had in the past. The null hypothesis is that I am, in fact, Getting Old. *thundercrash, lights flicker, ( Read more... )

I am reading my library's ILL policy in depth now. For example, item E. It reads:

Borrower Re-requests: Requests for the same item, from the same patron will not be accepted for 30 days from the date of return of the item. This shows a recurring demand and the borrowing library should consider the item for purchase (if it is available).

I am trying ( Read more... )