I've spent the day so far writing a paper that was due at eight and turning it in at noon, reading "The Time-Traveler's Wife" which was recommended to me by a friend with excellent taste (even if you can get just the slightest bit fuzzy when deliniating between "good fiction" and "good wriitng" hun) and being creative, which is a great change from ( Read more... )

Finally finished! Look at the pretty new layout, look at the shiny new icons, look at the pretty new Scrapbook space (which, yes, I'm not really using yet, but just give me time.) Okay, the ads aren't pretty, but LJ has sworn up down and sideways that they won't get terribly annoying (no blinking Flash ads, anyways), and look at all the extras I ( Read more... )

But I'm almost done and was taking a quick break and came upon this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/15/6556/58209. Now, I don't claim to keep up with current events as much as I should, I don't claim any particular political party having been disillusionned ( Read more... )

All right, so I will be the first to admit that the issue of immigration has recently become so over-discussed by the media that it's really impossible to follow all of it. I do not claim to know everything about it ( Read more... )

I was reading this article in Wired, which talks about the "Parkinson's Law" effect of music and how Ipods and the like are filling all of our downtime with sound.  To a certain extent I agree, and I've been hearing thoughts like this from many different directions and about several different things; including but not limited to cell phones, pop-up ( Read more... )

In the past couple days, I have rediscovered:

• the cheerfulness of the early Beatles,
• the excellence of the soundtrack of "Remember the Titans",
• the importance of chocolate,
• and total human depravity.

Which is a pretty weird list, I'll grant you.  The first two were due to random WinAmp shuffling issues, the third to my (admittedly ( Read more... )

I'm a little sleepy, as I felt like crap this weekend and spent a lot of time (too much, actually) resting, but I may as well post anyways. History got cancelled this morning, which was nice, and I should be using this time to work on my Text to Sermon homework, but I'm posting instead. But look, I've been productive!
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1. Welcome to daylight savings time. Whosever's job it was to get the memo to me: you're fired.
2. My cousin's daughter, Willow, is now officially 3. The fact that this makes me feel old is incredibly disturbing. Also, my biological clock can just SHUT UP, thank you very much.
3. Chris H. is quite the effective enabler. Thanks Chris! He has ( Read more... )

Ahh, it's a good idea to drop in here every so often, even if it does have the occasional awkward moment. Happily (for those of you who read this and aren't here) everyone seems to be doing comparatively well... although yeah, surgery would be a pain and a half ( Read more... )

Try listening to a historian try to explain the ontological argument for the existence of God. Don't get me wrong, I like my advisor, and she's great in her field, but ouch ( Read more... )