Turning on CNN and seeing your neighborhood: NEVER A GOOD THING ( Read more... )

In-class writing exercise from Thursday ( Read more... )

I made a new icon! It is about New Mexico, and how everything that lives here wants you to die a horrible death. Because I often find myself having to explain to people how this is a hostile, angry state antithetical to human life, and people don't believe me, and then I have to look up pictures of horrible insects on google to prove it, and that ( Read more... )

This was going to be a post about why CoE wasn't good television even if you ignore Day Four and why RTD is a adolescent douchenozzle, because I am still filled with bitterness and fan-rage, but...I don't really have the energy to get back into that discussion right now. So have a pretty picture instead!

Not taken by me, obviously: I found it on ( Read more... )

I made the mistake of watching the local news for a few minutes tonight, and came away properly mind-boggled for my trouble. Schools in New York and California close because of flu outbreaks. Schools in New Mexico close because of outbreaks of the BLACK DEATH. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not. They had a five-minute overview on the symptoms, when ( Read more... )

Dear New Mexico: what the hell is up with all this rain? I don't know if you got the memo, but it is NOT JULY YET. Thunderstorms belong in mid-July, not June! And this is just getting ridiculous ( Read more... )

God, I get homesick for the weirdest stuff sometimes ( Read more... )

New Mexico Abolishes Death Penalty

I actually hadn't been folowing this story, on account of NM news mostly doesn't make my news sources, but my dad mentioned it last night, and then it turned up in Daily Kos this afternoon and I did a happy dance.

Go Bill! I have (justifiably) criticised you before, and even called you an opportunistic carpet- ( Read more... )

9AM Mexico: Hey, We Warned You!
CSR, on speakerphone: And where would you like this order shipped?
Secretary: 123 Main St.*, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
CSR : We don't ship out of the country.
Secretary: That's fine, but this address is in the country.
CSR : No, you said to ship it to New Mexico.
Secretary: Yes, New Mexico is a state in the US.
CSR : Sorry, ( Read more... )