I just spoke to Howard Dean ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't heard yet, most of Jayna's house burned down. Including her room, all of her clothes and books, their appliances, Gavin's clothes & stuff, her parents' stuff, plus pictures and other assorted memorabilia ( Read more... )

Essay Topic #3: Reflecting on Experience ( Read more... )

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

from Monty Python's Flying Circus

I am the proud owner of a pair of shiny new crutches.

Another chapter in my eternal quest to be unpopular ( Read more... )

Higgedly-piggledy,
Benjamin Harrison,
Twenty-third President,
Was, and, as such,
Served between Clevelands, and
Save for this trivial
Idiosyncrasy, Didn't do much.

John Hollander

Now that my life feels more under control, I actually feel like I have something of myself to give and free time in which to give it. Too much free time = bad because I think about all the people I love who aren't really in my life right now and depression/anxiety ensues. In the interests of keeping myself crazy-busy and possibly improving the ( Read more... )

So I need a bio for a cadence-ish publication. Any takers?

Take the quiz: "Who's Your Harry Potter Lover?"

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