1.) Forty-seven days until I am done with my job, including weekends ( Read more... )

My posts have been coming in pairs.

I just read this article, about a couple who decided to stop buying things for an entire year ( Read more... )

I am mailing on the 1st of February (11 days) and this time I am on track to actually do it. I could use all the kind thoughts sent my way, though ( Read more... )

Day Two of being a high school teacher. So far I haven't had my class alone; today was supposed to be the first day of that, but because of various confusions, now it's going to be tomorrow ( Read more... )

I spent this past weekend walking 22 miles with two Buddhist monks (and a small group of other people).

I shall explain.

August 6th is Hiroshima Day. Every year for seven years, two monks from this order of Buddhist monks have been walking from a site that manufactures some component of nuclear weapons to the last plant in the nation that still ( Read more... )

Trying to concentrate on paper-writing. Failing. So instead, I fiddled with LiveJournal. After this I'll be sleepy enough to read the article I need to finish ( Read more... )

My Unitarian
Jihad Name is: Sister/Brother Sword of Warm Humanitarianism.

Get yours.

No, really. Join the "Unitarian
Jihad".

::snicksnort::

Wow. So the holidays are finally winding to a close, and I am pretty much no worse for wear ( Read more... )

Where are my IWTW people? ::gazes around, sighs:: You know, even now i feel nostalgic when speaking of IWTW . . . I wish the memories were clearer, because they're so beautiful. I was writing about it today on Kristine's boards, yanno, TWD . . . and they were talking about the same things we used to . . . there community is falling apart like ( Read more... )

At the end of one of my classes today, we all started chatting about smoking- how bad it is for you in general, but also how hysterically funny it is that the government thinks that the carcinogens and highly addictive drugs found in cigarettes are safer for us than the mild mind-altering substances in marijuana. This was all quite the normal ( Read more... )