public service announcement:

this has been aproductive lately.  I've disabled email notification of pretty much everything from this site, and it's possible I won't be checking it for a while.  this may or may not qualify as flouncing.

please be well.

so I woke up at 6 in the morning for no apparent reason, and returning to sleep seems impossible.  I think now that I'm actually sleeping in a darkened room, I'm actually extremely responsive to light and am waking up naturally with dawn.  weird.  on the bright side, this song was in my head, instead of total eclipse of the heart (like the last 6 ( Read more... )

12 dead and 31 injured after a US soldier (a Major, actually) opened fire on other US soldiers in Fort Hood, TX.

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the military destroys minds, it destroys lives.

so I struggled out of bed for a job interview today at starbucks.  I was early, and the interview went pretty well, I think.  at least, it lasted for 40 minutes, I managed to get the manager to chit-chat with me and do two or three little bunny trails of conversation when he was trying to read me questions from a list he didn't like, and at the end ( Read more... )

I just ordered the Veganomicon, the cookbook which contains recipes for this, this, this, and this!  (not sure what order I just copy pasted in, but somosa stuffed baked potatos, pan fried seitan with vegan brown gravy, Smlove pie...egad, it's magic!)  I am unreasonably excited.

so, purely out of curiousity I added up the number from wikipedia's list of billboard top 100 songs from the past 5 years that I've even heard of.  37.  sheash.

 can I just restate how obsessed I am with this ballet?

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hmm.  if the general associate's degree thing at UALR is a bad plan by itself...why not knock out a few pre-reqs to a UAMS program at the same time, and then go into some health related field other than nursing?  their college of health related professions includes dental hygiene (no), diagnostic medical sonography (maybe, but not much in the way ( Read more... )

songs you can still discover new subtleties in after hearing more than 100 times in a row pretty much rule.