I forgot my New Year's Day song!

I mean it from the bottom of my heart when I say that it's not personal. I'm trying to be good at graduate school and I'm working and I'm just trying to streamline my act here. So if I dropped you or a friend or your comm, please don't be offended. And if you are, please feel free to drop me a line and let me know about it ( Read more... )

If you rec or crosspost anything of mine on facebook? Where it might be connected to my actual identity? This journal will disappear faster than you can say "WTF LJ".

I work really hard to keep this life separate from my other life where there's full names and pictures and job interviews and shit.

Sorry if you've already read a ton of these

Y'ALL! Tomorrow I'm skipping town for TWO WEEKS. I'm going to Texas for the 4th to celebrate with my bestis, and then on to Haiti from the 6th-13th. I will be getting on a very small plane with just the one engine. Twice. So if you could think good thoughts about this, that would be awesome ( Read more... )

The picture is of Marine Corporal Jacob Leicht of Kerrville, Texas. Leight is the 1,000th American serviceman to die in Afghanistan.


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Why is the census so groovy hip cool, you ask? Because it determines federal funding for hospitals, roads, schools, etc. It also determines the number and location of Representatives in Congress, since those are based on population.

The information in your census form is NOT SHARED. Not with immigration, not with the cops, not with anybody for ( Read more... )

The Countdown to Reform Wire from TPM is the fastest updating site, as far as I can tell.

Daily Kos is a close second with more on a potential executive order deal with Stupak. (In a perfect world, we'd be able to do this without Bart and his selectively anti-choice stance.)

The AP breaks down the bill. The link goes to HuffPo, but the article ( Read more... )

Good morning!  Thanks to jet lag + time change, I am awake before eight o'clock now without even trying.  It's madness.  And since I'm taking care of the dog, I'm even out of my pajamas.  And it's not even nine. Crazygonuts ( Read more... )

Thanks to your generosity, I'm heading off to Haiti. Tonight, I'll be in Miami. Tomorrow, I meet pinkfinity! Eeee! And then I meet up with my uncle and second cousin and we head to Port au Prince ( Read more... )

As you probably know by now, I am currently jobless and living with my parents. [I've applied to International Studies graduate programs and am waiting to hear back. Keep your fingers crossed. It is a big ass applicant pool out there.] Otherwise, I spend time volunteering with a German Shepherd rescue group and doing Bikram yoga--either way, I ( Read more... )