excerpt from a conversation after morning prayer ( Read more... )

What happened to autumn? It feels warmer here in Boston today than it did all weekend in North Carolina.

(Edit: 84F [feels like 83F] at 2:45pm, says weather.com. Predicted high of 68F tomorrow -- and overnight low of 56F tonight and 52F tonoght -- which I feel better about.)

Scott suggests I move to Chicago.

Apparently it's ~40F there.

It's in the mid-70s F (and ~humid) here. And has been for days (with ~rain).

I just went over to Spangler to get some eggs (forgetting they take breakfast away at 10:30) 'cause I'd decided that the cereal I had at home this morning just wasn't gonna hold me until lunch ( Read more... )

Change and freedom are both excellent rewards for voting, but so is free ice cream.
- ilanabean42

Also: sex toysMy state's gonna go blue as far as the Presidential election, so I want to vote 3rd party (that seems so weird to say given that I have 6 parties to choose from), but I'm really not excited about any of them ( Read more... )

The nearby Episcopal church says on its signboard: "Forgive like there's no tomorrow."  Huh ( Read more... )

This afternoon, everything was melting.  I actually really enjoy that when it's seasonable (it was bright sunny and everything), but it felt very unseasonable.  And then tonight everything froze, so the sidewalk of the street I live on is a little dangerous ( Read more... )

Hai, it was freakishly warm out this morning. weather.com said 60F at 8:25am.

( gym )

And glad to be so ( Read more... )

Word Origin Calendar: February 1

February This month of midwinter takes its name from the Latin februa, which refers to ritual cleansing. Normally the coldest month of the year in southern Europe, the time was ripe for illness---whence the related word "fever"---that required prayer and magic if it was to be driven away.
We've had such a mild ( Read more... )