Swiped from whyvette:
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of ( Read more... )

It's almost 1 AM, and here I sit in my hotel room, having wolfed down a cup of chili around midnight (after getting back to my room close to 11 PM), still with lots of work to do. But I'm stopping, because I have a long day tomorrow here at my program.

As stressed as I am with the overload of work I have going on (my current program here in Philly, ( Read more... )

And on a happier note than my previous post....

My step-brother's band is coming to town! He's currently playing drums for an Afro-beat group called Chris Berry & Panjea, and they're coming to Smith's Olde Bar on November 3. As of yet, I WILL be in town - and since the band is paid based solely on ticket sales, consider this a plea to come out and ( Read more... )

My stomach is fluttery and I don't know if it's because of

A) The greasy food I had for breakfast on Sunday with my mother at Waffle House

B) Learning that my mother had been stabbed in the heart, figuratively speaking, yet again by my psycho sister and her psycho husband aided this time by my psycho brother-in-law's psycho brother (she came THIS ( Read more... )

Thanks to
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I'm trying to find something nice to send my father for Father's Day - he's not really into "Hallmark" holidays, but I like to at least acknowledge it, because I love him and it's an opportunity to remind him that he's loved.

But it's very hard to find anything - cards or presents - that suit him. He doesn't wear ties (he's retired from teaching ( Read more... )

Hello all!

As my usual chorus goes, I'm swamped. However, wanted to do a quick post about what a lovely weekend I had, and to update folks on the termite situation. (It's actually a long post, so it's LJ-cut for your pleasure.)

Yes, we have a termite situation.

After figuring out that we actually have one company for regular pest control, and a ( Read more... )

Forgive me father for I have sinned. It's been over a week since my last confession - sorry - blog post.

Oh wait- I'm not Catholic - never mind.

Why has it been so long, you may ask?

Well, a number of reasons. This is long, so let's go with the subheadings, and you can pick your poison...

( I DON'T WANNA WORK I JUST WANNA BANG ON THE DRUMS ALL DAY )

Because I need to take a moment to breathe...

*whew*!

So, everyone likes the hair? Yah? It's actually far less "corporate" than it looks in the photo - it's nice and choppy, angled in the front, cut higher and choppy in the back so I can even spike it a bit. The color is kind of fun and uneven because I covered up more of the gold chunks, and now I ( Read more... )

My dear friend John gave us season one of Veronica Mars on DVD.

miatuc gave us a nice bottle of wine (lots of nice wines were given at our party, but most were drunk right away. This one was safely stashed ( Read more... )