I genuinely can't tell if I really am this anxious or if I've just overdosed on caffeine.

*jitters*

To all the men on my flist who are fathers of sons and fathers of daughters, a Happy Father's Day. Thank you for the immense love and effort you put into raising your children, the time you give them, and the restraint you show in letting them grow up into young men and women separate from yourself ( Read more... )

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SETEC ASTRONOMY.

That is all.

Happy anniversary, Spouse!

It's been an honor living with you this decade-and-a-year. Even if your experiments sometimes explode.

*hugs*

Secret to my musical attentions:

1) Jangly guitars
2) Female vocalists with a bit of catch and reverb
3) Interesting harmonies
4) Triplets
5) Ambiguous but meaningful lyrics

You know there is something bad wrong with you when you realize that you get a much greater sense of coming home from visiting your alma mater than from visiting your matris domus.

So I owned this album on vinyl when I was in my early teens. (Actually, I think Dad may have bought it for me.) And this was always my favorite song on the album. Yeah, it wasn't terribly philosophical, but when you're thirteen, it's deep for radio airplay ( Read more... )

So my father called me tonight. When I found out it was him, I was steeled for bad news - usually my mother is the one that calls me, and his sister - my favorite aunt - has had first breast cancer, then lung cancer, for a while now. But no, he just wanted to talk about stuff ( Read more... )