It's been six months, and I've never been this happy for this long in my life. The girls are abed, the laundry is in the dryer. Brian's playing a game in our room. And I'm about to turn in beside him. It's funny, apparently I don't have much to write about when I'm happy. But I was looking over this journal and realized I hadn't been here in ages. ( Read more... )

so when the fall out happened in 1991, it really was like a breakup, and Bri got custody of all the friends in the "divorce." Everyone thought I was a bitch who led him on and broke his heart. ( I wasn't, and I didn't, and I spent months crying and sick over it and asking anyone I ran into if they'd seen him and how he was doing.) but anyway... ( Read more... )

So everyone is posting about the Olympics over on FB and I cannot move myself to give a damn or to even feign interest. It's like basketball season in Louisville, but on a world stage. Everyone's all excited and I'm like, oh, is it that time again ALREADY? Wake me when the winter ones come and there's ice dancing.

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

How many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, crepe makers, electric woks, ( Read more... )

So I'm making dinner, and I've got sweet potatoes in the oven. I'm making conversation w/ my kid about the food, and start talking about new world agriculture...Tim puts me in my place, posthaste. "I'm trying to get dinner, not a degree, Mom." Sigh. I'm as bad about boring my audience as he is, sometimes.

Originally posted by lk737 at House Passes CISPA: Make Sure It Dies In Senate
CISPA would give the government and corporations vast new powers to track and share data about Americans’ Internet use.

But our hundreds of thousands of emails and tens of thousands of phone calls have had a real impact:

Amendments were adopted that made CISPA (marginally) better ( Read more... )

So I thought this was a stupid idea when I read about it. Especially with the wiseass comments I figured it'd get...

But I've sat here for the last half hour reading through and I find myself weeping into a handkerchief. I know it's hokey, it's dorky, it's only semi-historical. Don't care. Still bawling like a baby.

So I'm checking my archaeology news, and I come across this. I have never heard of such a thing- I have a degree in this shit and I have, to my knowledge, never encountered description (or even mention) of a bed burial. In the last couple of years,  have seen photographs of stone lined tombs, where it is theorised that the deceased may have lain on ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/wookiee-invasion-at-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade.html?_r=1

An interesting civics exam online- I thought it was pretty evenhanded, a decent test of ones civic literacy...
http://www.isi.org/%28X%281%29S%285uzobn45f2h23l55qnf12cvu%29%29/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1