With this summer being arguably the most bizarre of my entire life, my impending trip to France has not really been at the forefront of my thoughts.  Even though I know I'm going away, gotten my visa and even bought my ticket, this trip has remained sort of a strange abstraction in my mind.  But now that I look at my calendar and realize that I ( Read more... )

I've decided. On my wedding day, I'm going to look up (I imagine he'll be really tall) into my husband-to-be's eyes and in lieu of vows sing "Something Good" from The Sound of Music.

Perhaps I had a wicked childhood ( Read more... )

I just got in from my first ever proper swimming lesson. Yes, I’m 26 years old and can’t swim to save my life-literally. But since this summer I found myself newly single and with a lot more free time on my hands, I decided to throw myself into fitness. I began jogging daily (I’m up to 5.5 miles/day); I took up yoga; and I decided that I finally ( Read more... )

This story made me sad. :(

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/11/kitten.obit.ap/index.html

Well, it's been five days since Theo left for Japan. To echo Theo's sentiment, watching him leave was quite hard for me, especially after the week and a half leading up to his departure that we spent together. I miss him very much and think about him often. Too much perhaps. It will take some time to get used to not having him in my life. He ( Read more... )

Listening to NPR, I heard that Dr. Ross Lence, who taught political science and political philosophy at UH (primarily with the Honors College), died on Tuesday, after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. I took him for Honors political theory, and while I wasn't sure what to make of him, I certainly thought of him as one of the most distinctive ( Read more... )

Pour toi, a_just_society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-0LlOUqME

Je préfère la VO, mais c'est marrant ...

1. Why won't the market rebound? I want to transfer money between investment accounts, but doing so now might mean selling at a loss. I should have acted back a couple of months ago when the Dow was flirting with 12K. Stupid me.

2. I'll probably be going underwear shopping today, as a lot of mine seem to have gone missing. sonofthor, I'm looking at ( Read more... )

Well, the last couple of days or so have been generally crumby, what with my losing my pedometer, another one of my tires blowing out, being ripped from my sleep by a bad dream this morning, and various other unpleasant distractions, but there have been some bright spots. I just got my grade for the Experimental Methods in Psychology class I took ( Read more... )

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