And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
     "For hate is strong,
     And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
     The Wrong shall fail,
     The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."

So a few weeks ago qtrnca thought she heard a mouse in the kitchen. I made a cursory search and discovered no evidence. Would you like to guess which one of us was right?

If you said qtrnca you have impeccable judgement. Thursday night I saw a brown shadow dart out of the pantry and run behind the stove. Saturday I cleaned the kitchen floor, the pantry ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner was chicken in a pot, cooked by yours truly. I used my woefully underutilized le creuset pot. It took me about an hour and a half longer to get dinner on the table than I had intended, but some things will go quicker with time or preparation. More carrots, fewer potatoes. I also need some practice breaking down a chicken. But ( Read more... )

So last week we had an earthquake and hurricane. I was struck by the idea that these were clear signs of an impending apocalypse, and that the apocalypse would be underwhelming.

I'll shortly be doing something very uncharacteristic for me. I'm taking the last two days of this week off on a lark and going to the NCAA tournament in Cleveland to watch GMU play. It's going to be an adventure.

I have been planning to post an entry for a while now. We are 365 days from what was, if not the worst, one of the worst days of my life. But a funny thing happened along the way. While it may be trite to say, time does heal all wounds.

I've been dating qtrnca for a couple of months now. And the weird thing is there is no weird thing. We like ( Read more... )

Nine years and a couple of hours ago we were all very different people. At least within my group of friends LiveJournal seems to be a dying medium, but I thought I would reminisce today about that day nine years ago. I remember hearing the news while still asleep over my clock-radio alarm. V called me on my dorm phone and woke me up. He told me ( Read more... )

After Friday night I have done nothing productive this weekend. Unless you consider downloading and playing Deadliest Warrior on X-Box to be productive. Well, I suppose it's been relaxing at least.

So yesterday I fell out of a perfectly good airplane. Was worried that the weather wouldn't hold, and that I'd have to reschedule again. I won't lie, I was scared before I went out of the plane. I won't say that I jumped exactly. The guy I was strapped to was quite professional. We got up to the edge of the door and I was out before I knew it ( Read more... )

This past week I've seen more people I haven't seen in years, and people I never thought I'd see again. It makes me happy to see my old friends and acquaintances doing well. Either where they always wanted to be or back on track.