About a week ago, an interesting event occurred, which i keep meaning to ponder in written form ( Read more... )

Nothing earth shattering, but i guess i've been busy ( Read more... )

Stolen from scirocco . Thanks, mang ( Read more... )

Never in all my thanksgivings have i ever eaten so much i felt sick, or even uncomfortably full ( Read more... )

Stolen from frozenrhino !  I like this one, for different reasons than i like the monthly updates :)

I am seriously dating myself here :|

( every 4 years.... )

Last night was fascinating for me, and i'm dying to see how the general public reactions.  But it wasn't all that emotional for me, since politics are just so far removed from my daily life that i really don't feel affected by them ( Read more... )

The school at which i observe is, based on the 65 odd students i've been exposed to thus far, about 10 % white.

I wonder if those kids have any idea how momentous this is.

Dear gods, i hope so.   I hope tomorrow is chaos.  I big a GIANT BIG HUGE DEAL is made of this.

Tomorrow......

Many thanks to
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So, like most people with depression, sometimes you don't know you are depressed until after it starts to go away again.  I spent a long time getting off  my meds, and have no plans to get on them ever again.  So i deal with it myself, which at my current level of mild (a vast improvement over severe, like i was about 3 years ago) only interferes ( Read more... )

There come points in your life when you realise you have passed from one stage to the next, without realising it. The point when i realised i was no longer an impoverished grad student, but in fact a decent wage-earning adult was when my biking gloves were hole-y and impossible to clean, and i spent the $15 on a new pair really without thinking ( Read more... )