I discovered this song when my family sent me on a spa weekend getaway for my fiftieth birthday.

I have been playing it a lot lately, when the wish for a Time Turner starts itching at me again, as it has a lot lately.

But hey, I'm not wishing for a Resurrection Stone.

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Tell me about ways you are living in the moment ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot for escape lately, but reading has been difficult. I've had bad luck with a crappy succession of mindless escape fiction I've been taking out of the library, so I went out on the internet looking for fanfiction ( Read more... )

How do you pamper someone going through chemo ( Read more... )

For quite awhile, while I've certainly enjoyed my Lord of the Rings mood set, I've wanted a mood set of Harry Potter icons, especially as I've been getting engrossed in Alternity. I've started working on it! Unfortunately, the program which I used for to make my LOTR icons, which I liked extremely well, doesn't work on my Mac. I have been using a ( Read more... )

Well, nuts ( Read more... )

I think I've hit upon what I'd like to blog about for the 100 things challenge. I've picked #56 on this list: 100 Things I Tried for the First Time. I've officially contracted for the challenge hereI chose this because 1) I'd really like to do the challenge, to spark more blog entries; 2) I've been thinking I need to find something new to absorb ( Read more... )

"There are three ways to make a living in this business:
Be first
Be smarter
or cheat."

I ran across a reference to the movie Margin Call a couple of times in the past few weeks, in the course of my obsessive reading about the Occupy Wall Street protests and the larger issue of how this country got so off track in the financial markets and ( Read more... )

An interesting article in the Washington Post about an internet meme springing up, which photoshops the image of the cop spraying the protestors at UC Davis into all sorts of famous paintings. See the Tumblr here. The closest similar example I can think of were the various photoshop jobs that added pictures everywhere of Princess Beatrice's hat, or ( Read more... )

Now that I'm thinking about this, it's instructive to look back at this post I made back in 2003, about making a life list/bucket list. Here's an excerpt:If I'm really serious about doing this, it means that if I put something on the list, I mean to be really determined about wanting to do it. Some considerations: I am, perhaps, a bit more limited ( Read more... )

Good luck to all my friends on the East Coast who are set to ride out Hurricane Irene (including my brother Chet's family in New York ( Read more... )