I witnessed the coolest little hook-up yesterday. I stopped in Walgreen's to buy the little saline packets that go along with my neti-pot as I ran out last week when the warming weather sent my sinuses into a tumult, and when I got up to the front the line was pretty long and slow moving. As I got on the line, I caught the end of a conversation ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago I went on a date with a friend of a friend ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, as usual, was Teaching College Composition class. We discussed our reading which was a couple of essays on issues of grammar and correctness, and their primacy (or lack thereof) in teachign writing. The general consensus, of both the reading and the class, was that grammar was actually secondary to being a good writer. That is not to ( Read more... )

Last week I posted about the difference in cathartic value between writing in a private paper journal and writing in the public forum, like a blog, but reading back through some of my old entries on here, I realized that one of the benefits of the blog is that you can avoid the overly self-indulgent aspects of the paper journal, where the total ( Read more... )

Since I love album covers and this thing makes a nice little presentation of them, I have made a second set of albums.

This one is ( Albums I Never Thought I'd Like, But Now I Love )

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I am not so much bored as I am aimless. Nothing of an immediate nature that presents itself to be possibly done holds any interest for me at the moment. Even my normal desire to simply be home instead of at work brings no solace in its familiarity, because if I were home all I could think I wanted to do was sleep ( Read more... )

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, SUCKERS!!!

I got nothing new for you at the moment - so check out last year's entry instead.

Here I am stretching the strands of a cocoon again. How many times has this worm sought the solitude of darkness, to have my shell of interlocking rings desiccate and crumble and change, change, change - To find the strength to break free and out and be what it is I have become. What will I become? Each time it is harder and colder and longer ( Read more... )

This is just another day.

Today, my co-worker asked, "If you could have any one super power what would it be?"

I replied, "The ability to love."

"I would like to be able to teleport anywhere in the world," she said.

"Oh yeah, fuck love, I want to teleport, too."