There are just so many things wrong with this article opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that it would take a graduate thesis to touch on them all.

For right now, I just want to say that I keep wanting to bang my head at the existence of an article (in a major publication!) which starts out with an anecdote about how there are no "light" books ( Read more... )

I haven't written much about health care reform because it's been really hard for me to watch and talk about.   I haven't even done the whole "repost if you support health care reform" thing on facebook because I didn't want to get into it with my family.

I bitch about my family a lot here, because here is where I feel safe doing so.  But you need ( Read more... )

I really want to share more about my vacation, but I have a car that still needs some unpacking and an application for $ that is nearing towards overdue that I need to write an essay for.  So that will have to wait*.  Instead, you get ( a long-winded introspection about my job, in the hopes that getting this out will help me write the application essay I need to write. )

 The first two assignments for my XHTML/CSS class felt extremely basic - mostly html stuff that I had already picked up from simply posting on blogs/journals//forums.  So much so that I was getting a little worried that I should have just skipped on ahead to the next level course ( Read more... )

"Why didn't you tell....?"

My parents are watching CM tonight too - I wonder what they are thinking about that scene...

(unresolved issues? me? never!)

if I was to make very hungry caterpillar mobiles for the two mothers-to-be whose showers I will be attending, which of the following absolutely MUST be on them:

moon*
leaf with egg
sun*
itty bitty caterpillar**
one apple
two pears
three plums
four strawberries
five oranges
piece of chocolate cake
ice cream cone
pickle
slice of Swiss cheese
slice of salami
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I'm a year late to game, and lots of people have already said lots of stuff about how awesome Wall-E is already. However, there really can't be enough praise for Wall-E, so I'll add my 2 cents anyway ( Read more... )