out on the Cape this weekend, we were disappointed to hear that Nauset beach was closed both Saturday and Sunday. it had closed briefly two weekends ago due to the nearby hurricane, but this weekend's reason was much more fun. and it wasn't a barracuda. *g*
Beach Patrol radar shows five large sharks near Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge Thursday ( Read more... )

usomitai has provided me with five associations. this is a fun meme - in Iz's words: we ask each other to associate us with things, we post talking about them, and the meme becomes the living undead! in the comments, you can give me your own set of associations to do, and/or ask me to give you five associations.

Neil Gaiman- *g* like my Delirium icon ( Read more... )

this weekend I celebrated my birthday in high style. on Thursday evening my mother, brother, and I headed up to Northampton to see Solas perform at the Iron Horse. one reason I adore having my birthday in March, and four days before St Patrick's Day, is that the surrounding weeks have more celtic music concerts than you can shake a stick at. XD ( Read more... )

this afternoon my friend Natasha and I saw Coraline in 3D. it was awesome and such fun! I had not been to see a 3D showing of a film before (that I recall), so that was neat, and I'm very glad I made the effort to see it in 3D. exploration of the Coraline website yields lots of interactive goodies (the mouse circus spells my name!). ^_^ if you ( Read more... )

I was reading this week's NEWS of the WEIRD, and found a story about the Oxford Junior Dictionary under the heading of "Questionable Judgments". I'm two months behind, here, but I do think it is interesting, so let's go to the source, The Telegraph, and the 12/8/2008 article- "Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", " ( Read more... )