I thought the recitations would keep me on a quiet and unobtrusive course: 'in my father's house there are many 'dwelling places''- (they aren't 'mansions' anymore apparently, or maybe that was the Episcopalians)...'this do in remembrance of me', that one really famous part of ecclesiastes: a time to this and a time to that ( Read more... )

the black fuzzy goes anywhere in cool weather, it has big pockets. I am not required to wear all black. shoes, they'll be the same shoes I always wear, the ones I have. I'll shave my head sometime in the next few days so it doesn't look too awful when I get there ( Read more... )

I have now been asked, for the first time, whether I still menstruate ( Read more... )

what is success ( Read more... )

Something is playing 'Keep-Away' with most of 'sync separator'. Strangely, it has left a lot of swf files and some mp3's and most of the guestbook. I don't have an explanation for this yet, but am hoping it's some sort of Ordinary Server Event and not a Terrible Accident.

and this time i will remember to bring enough sheets to cover up the bivouac so we don't get

braised
fraised
or
crazed
by the sun.
excuse me. I have to squish someone's head.

unless you expect to be able to open things by beating them against the curb. For values of 'open' which evaluate to 'destroy' or 'mangle', this works fine, but last time I opened a melon that way it was messy. Of course I could have opened the melon by digging my thumbs into it hard and pulling it apart. It would have been messy this way also, but ( Read more... )

[jeremiad ( Read more... )

someone told me

'if you are going to punish people because you had to experience some of your feelings, you might at least let them see some of them. it's only fair'

I thought about this. I am still thinking about it.

in conversation my partner mentioned a friend who'd recently visited Malaysia. This friend said that Americans are hated there, and that there are many Americans there who are pretending to be Canadians ( Read more... )