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You Are a Visionary Soul


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New Years Day marked the first anniversary of my more intensive foray into vegetarianism. It isn't entirely accurate to call me a vegetarian. I play don't-ask-don't-tell with certain foods, especially in restaurants, with regards to ingredients like chicken broth and gelatin, and I eat fish sometimes, when my other options look bleak. I call ( Read more... )

The Great LiveJournal
Outage of 2005

During the outage I laughed at people who didn't have a backup journal on another site.

What did you do?

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What do you believe is true even though you can't prove it?I believe that human beings are ultimately inherently good, despite their sometimes disgraceful display of ignorance and hatred ( Read more... )

I spent part of my winter break entertaining my three little cousins while my mom and uncle worked on installing a door. It was... well, I'd call it an extended process, really, so there was a full day or so of cousin-entertaining. We took Sophie down to the bay (where the little girls played in the tide and got their pants wet), then went for ice ( Read more... )

Growing up in south Texas, it always seemed to be a tossup whether we'd be able to wear sweaters on Christmas Day. We're known for our temperate winters, and true to form, more years than not, Christmas Day is a good day for a hike or a birdwatching expedition. I've spent, to the best of my memory, every Christmas of my life in Corpus Christi ( Read more... )

It's fairly safe to say that I tend to be a music snob. I'll listen to the radio when that's the best option, but I like the music I like, and that almost never includes the Top-40 stuff. My computers at work and at home are chock-full of the folky and funky alternative stuff that I like to listen to, and I seldom have to subject myself to the ( Read more... )

I hiked into paradise this morning, in the scrubland of the Texas Hill Country.

Hidden near Hamilton Pool, Westcave Preserve is less-known and more regulated than its neighbor, but it was Travis County's first nature preserve, established in 1976 when the land was purchased from a private owner ( Read more... )