A note to say that this journal is being semiretired; it's a lot easier to have journals for specific headfolk and have hem all belong to a community rather than having one journal and trying to overload on icons. This journal may still be used for folken who aren't around enough to merit individual journals/don't have enough group to merit a ( Read more... )

...and perhaps the most concise I've ever been about why archangels in beyondtherift have about a 75% chance of skeeving me the fuck out...

3:55:30 PM magi: Archangels just tend to hit my "righteous bigoted zealot" buttons.
3:55:53 PM magi: They tend to take me back to sitting in my African-American History classes and learning about lynchings.
3:56:17 PM Jae: ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I take my second final of the year, and with that out of the way, I will have completed everything I need to do for my undergraduate degree.

Everything.

I'll be done.

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This is terrifyingI've been pretty spotty about everything online, and that will at least hopefully clear up after this. It'll be nice to see if I can get some of ( Read more... )

Robot Programmed to Love Goes too Far"After some limited environmental conditioning, Kenji first demonstrated love by bonding with a a stuffed doll in his enclosure, which he would embrace for hours at a time. He would then make simple, but insistent, inquiries about the doll if it were out of sight. Researchers attributed this behavior to his ( Read more... )

So, I've been sick. Not massively, debilitatingly so, but it's an annoying lingering cough that makes it difficult for me to do things like, say, get that audio recording for PodCastle done. So I decided that for dinner today I would make a nice, brothy stew in the style of Jonas' meals: throw some lentils and bulgur into a pot with some boullion ( Read more... )

Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then- ( Read more... )

Knitting.

I haven't taken up knitting yet.

Okay, I could have stood to know that earlier. Then again, I could have figured that out earlier, so perhaps I just suck ( Read more... )

Anyone around?

Fledgeling, this is you being thrown from the nest.

Of course you will see the ground comng and ferar, and you will hit the dirt and ache, and think that your father is disappointed in you.

He is not disappointed at you. But he will throw you from these branches until you learn to fly.