When I said I couldn't really talk about it, "it" was something like this: I was sitting there half listening to the pastor's sermon, which was about reaching out to others in love and clasping their hands and the hands being the hands of Jesus, and half thinking my own thoughts, which were about how I got to make the hardest, craziest decisions ( Read more... )

I'm in a good mood now because I just spent two hours reading Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris aloud to my mother, and it's one of the best books I've encountered lately, and I feel I've discovered a friend and kindred spirit in the author, and reading aloud is one of my favorite activities. Jeremy won't let me do it to him because he, like me, has no ( Read more... )

I write a lot more short, dull entries when I'm chained to the computer writing a paper ( Read more... )

I just got the order I placed to Skindazzles while we were in Florida. Six Whipped Body Frostings, six assorted bath bombs, four Jumbo Soy Tarts, and a Pomegranate Sexy Golden Goddess Shimmer Lotion in a pear tree. I love to sparkle.

I also got a bottle of Bastet, which smells exactly like the character Bastet in American Gods. Wow ( Read more... )

1) Skindazzles bath bombs are deliciously scented and moisturizing.

2) I just found two books lying around the house, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. I haven't done a deep enough scan of books in the house to locate these since I read House of Mirth and Of Human Bondage, both of which I utterly adored, ( Read more... )

1) got skindazzles order everything is divine skin so silky wheee holiday order

2) yule scents be up on bpal site by oct 17 bounce

3) minestrone soup best food ever

4) need bigger tea strainer

5) no house until nov 1 BAD BAD BAD DEATH FU NASTY BASEBALL

6) sleepy go bedtime now nice

Mystic Theurge
11% Combativeness, 20% Sneakiness, ( Read more... )

Still love teaching.

mineownaardvarks: The best thing ever is when this tiny seventh-grader raises her hand and squinches up her eyes and goes, "Okaaaaay, sooooo, the subject is what's, like, doing something, and the direct object is what's getting something done to it" and I say "Exactly" and she pumps her fist in the air and goes, "YESSSS ( Read more... )

Mondays are not going to be fun. I have three preps, one study hall, cafeteria duty, bus duty, and class at the college from 4 to 6 and 6 to 9. So basically I leave home at seven-thirty in the morning and get home at nine-fifteen at night, without a break ( Read more... )

So that order I placed with Skindazzles last night? I just got an e-mail from the woman who runs it.

Hi Savannah! Thank you very much for your website order. I’ll have this shipped out to you within 3-4 business days and will send you an email to confirm shipment. Have a great week!
Candy

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is effective customer ( Read more... )