Let this be a statement that depression sucks! I wonder whether happy people have the same thoughts that I do. How can one be happy and see the world as the way I see it, what I see as true, have the questions I have about everything that's supposed to make me happy ( Read more... )

Stolen from Melvillian.

1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet or long and detailed, all is good.

2. Comment here with your answers and repost the questionnaire on your own journal.

01) Are you currently in a serious ( Read more... )

1) Ice dancing is seriously lame, watching videogames really never gets old 2) you can open an entire box of magic cards and get no rare blues 3) and I found an actual theridiosomatidae (crazy cool spider) in Costa Rica and they really are as awesome as I'd imagined ( Read more... )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 10/2/07). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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I dreamt last night that I broke up with you because you were eating bats, and you couldn't see somehow how contradictory it was to be vegetarian for moral reasons and EAT LIVE BATS. You didn't know they were alive at first, but when you found out you didn't demonstrate nearly the required amount of horror, and instead left the remaining bat alive ( Read more... )

Thanks for your input, guys. I liked a lot of your names, but I guess my parents had other ideas. Whatever his name, he's the Sebastian of dogs. For those in the dark: he's complacent, cuddly, ragdollish, adorable, soft, friendly, playful, inquisitive, and adventurous.

Oh, and tiny.


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I haven't announced this because I didn't want to talk about it at the time, but Cody, the dog my family got when I was in 4th grade died two months ago at age 14. He had a dog version of ALS, and it was necessary to put him to sleep. We still miss him, but my parents have decided to get another black standard poodle puppy, and they need help ( Read more... )

I've had requests for pictures of the map. So here are some fuzzy-and-incomplete pictures. I'm hoping to get a non-fai picture soon.

In the upper left is Russia and Alaska with airplanes and boats representing Trade and Diplomacy going back and forth. Upper right is The Rest of the World, a tiny blue blob, from the US perspective.


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Last night started out with a feeling of complete anticlimax. Really there was no question, but in our minds, as soon as Pennsylvania was called for Obama we new his win was certain. The only debate was by how much, and what the other races would result in ( Read more... )

Bugs like me. And I like bugs. Most of them, anyway. Spiders in particular, as you all know. What I don't like are biting bugs. Bugs that make you itch. I'm ok with a sting here and there, but itching that lasts long past the point of encounter, and leaves a disfiguring welt just in case you forget? Forget it ( Read more... )