We got a bunch of free passes at work for a preview screening of Julie & Julia tonight. I took my mother ( Read more... )

And then just some random other pictures.

( Randomness )

Gut yontif, one and all.

If I were Observant, everything I'm doing right now would be considered wrong -- typing, using electronics ... but at the moment, the only things that feel really wrong are that I'm not at a seder, and that I have to be apart from aaronbenedict for three days ( Read more... )

After yet another online exchange with a friend whose pet has cancer, I think I need to ask:

Is it just me, or do an awful lot of animals seem to be getting cancer lately?

In addition to Opie, there's my neighbor's dog, who likely has the exact same tumor that Opie had (when she described her conversation with her vet to me, it was déjà vu all ( Read more... )

( Pittsburgh Vegan Meetup Group meetup at Udipi Cafe )

Slowly but surely, I'm getting the last few months' worth of pictures uploaded to LJ. Here, then is September:

( Labor Day )

After inventory yesterday (did I neglect to mention that part of the insanity? Ack!), work is a mess today. So to give myself some teeny tiny little sanity breaks, I'm gonna upload the pictures from before Billie's going away party. Yes, I realize I'm about two weeks late. I think we covered the recent pandemonium in my earlier post ( Read more... )

I wrote about this once before, but today is my anniversary. On January 14, 1971, I was delivered to my parents, not by a stork, but by a social worker in a taxicab. All the time between my birthday and now? I was in an orphanage -- a Catholic one, no less ( Read more... )

from: http://quakerclass.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-privilege-do-you-have.html

and based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you ( Read more... )