Today's Ask Polly column is so, so great. Read the whole thing, but here, have a quote ( Read more... )

So, to balance out my (okay, yes) slightly bitchy post from earlier, I bring you these delights.


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Once again, provided courtesy of my father ( Read more... )

I loved this quote ( Read more... )

One of my friends had this quote in her signature line, and I thought it both beautiful and very descriptive of where I often find myself. (Although I would say that my capacity is for wine, not beer.)

"When I get honest, I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about ( Read more... )

I loved this because I think it's so very true.

"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough--that we should try again." ~Julia Cameron

Law review today sucked gravel through a bendy straw. I quit a little earlier than planned, mostly because the impending tension headache was like to kill me. Evil, evil, evil ( Read more... )

I managed to finish "Cold As It Gets" tonight, thereby reaching my goal. I wanted to get it done, but I also wanted to keep it to 12 chapters. Typically, when I write a story, I have a general idea of where I'm going, and then I let the story take over from there. This time I knew that I would have six voices, and each one would get a chance to " ( Read more... )

Today's quote: "I am really looking forward as I get older and older to being less and less nice." ~Annette Bening ( Read more... )

Today's quote: "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'" ~Mary Anne Radmacher ( Read more... )