I know I'm mostly keeping lj for my own posterity nowadays. Most people have left and I have so much on here I don't think I'd feel comfortable adding anybody new even if I knew anybody who still used it. But I've had it so long I just can't let it go!

So. Osama bin Laden. What is there to say? For a split second I thought it was an April Fool' ( Read more... )

Please shape up your act.

Sincerely,

me

*sigh* How fucking hard is it to just lay down the law and get these perverts out of the priesthood and somewhere where they can get help? It's an embarrassment to Catholics, an appalling insult to the victims, and most of all, an invitation to an endless cycle of abuse.

That's all.

I'm generally not a metal fan, but this song just tickles me. Not sure why. I wish I could find more like it, but the only other metal I've liked is by DragonForce, which my brother informs me is not "real" metal ( Read more... )

WE. WIN.


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I like this newish layout I've been using, except that when you scroll below the header, it's basically just black text on a white background. Tres boring.

That was an inspired opening, I know.

So I think I'll just hit all the highlights in life since it's been really a good two months since I did a real update.

• school: I was having a hell of a ( Read more... )

Hello all.

It's updating time!

• I made it to the Foreign Service Oral Assessment.  *proceeds to tear hair out*  Anywho, I'll be off to DC again on April 24, got my exam on the 25, then I'm staying about another week so I can schedule interviews w/ other places.
• Related to that, the UT diplomat-in-residence is hosting an information session on the 8th, ( Read more... )

Days after essentially every last media outlet had written her political obituary (to use the popular parlance), Hillary Clinton "turns it around" (surprise surprise) and the Associated Press gives us this. They really do treat this competition as a horse race.

What pissed me off about this article most was this:
Obama, for his part, has been ( Read more... )

I haven't been this twisted up about an election in... ever. Which, okay, is saying effectively nothing, but you see what I am trying to say.

California is pissing me the hell off. WTF HOME STATE. If anything this teaches me not to believe polls. I think a Zogby poll had Obama actually ahead of Clinton, which is not how it's shaping up to be ( Read more... )

Hillary's "Experience" Lie

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