Grades are in for 3 of my 4 classes. The Rehab class took 4 weeks after the course was over to post final grades, only admitting that there were "delays" in the final grades after the 2 week mark ( Read more... )

Stale news is better than stale bread, thus I present some of the former instead of any of the latter.

Primarily from skreidle:

Thousands Upon Thousands of Hummingbirds

They're adorable! 'Nuff said.

UK Ministry accused of having repeatedly lied about rising gun crimes...official figures showed that gun-related killings and injuries had risen more ( Read more... )

From my f-list:

The NY Times, bastion of defeatism, has published this op-ed piece by two of their reporters. I'm in shock."VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all ( Read more... )

Six years ago on this date, 13 July, I created this lj and made my first post ( Read more... )

Near the beginning of the year 2005, I made a list of ten goals I wanted to reach or at least work toward throughout the entire year. Here's the latest and final look on what happened:

1) Become better at speaking, writing, and understanding German (ie, work on achieving fluency).I'm still nowhere near becoming fluent, but I usually managed to ( Read more... )

There was a base-wide email sent out two weeks ago, saying that any Squadron that had personnel interested in observing the Super Bowl would be allowed to come in to work late today, ie 1200 noon. This is intended to account for the relatively large difference in time- because anything broadcast live to us here in Germany is still six hours ahead ( Read more... )

I am so delighted, amazed, and proud of them...

acidic_eidolon says it all:

The people of Iraq have freely cast their ballots! (with pictures!)

"Am I scared? Of course I'm not scared. This is my country," said 50-year-old Fathiya Mohammed, wearing a head-to-toe abaya.

"This proves that we are now free," said Akar Azad, 19, who came to the polls with his ( Read more... )

Well, here's a nice realization: I am actually making progress on my goals.

1) Become better at speaking, writing, and understanding German (ie, work on achieving fluency).
I've at least been doing things with my vocabulary, as in expanding it. For example, berufliche Werdegang fuer Offiziere means "Officer development," which is incidentally ( Read more... )

Here we go, another post about something oh-so-controversial: homosexuality and marriage.

( Don't Read If You Don't Want to Get Even Remotely Wrapped Up in It )

In the office. Again. Less than seven people in the entire shop today, and three of them are in this office. And one of them is me.

Thus, I have the time and capability to actually write something instead of posting constant links.

( Stuff to Read )