I was reminded by teapot37's 12 of 12 post that for once, and completely without planning, I actually took pictures on the 12th. Yesterday I spent a wonderful day up in Portland, ME with three lovely people (scripted22, adinarj, and avipedia) and I had a few pictures from the day that I wanted to share anyway, so I figured why not pick twelve pictures and make it a 12 of 12 at ( Read more... )

Seen at Commonwealth Books, home of scholarly and antiquarian books.

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Back in September I was browsing the local real estate listings just for fun and I stumbled upon a cute little house in a nice nearby town. Now, I don't want to go into a lot of boring detail of what happened, but basically that spurred me to talk to my parents, who said I should call a realtor we know, and I officially began house hunting early ( Read more... )

About a month ago the Westboro Baptist Church announced that they would be picketing Canton High School, where I work, as part of their day of protests in and around Boston. They chose to picket Canton High because our theatre club is putting on The Laramie Project as the winter/spring play. As soon as the announcement was made, students began to ( Read more... )

This is an easy meme, and I haven't posted in a long time, so I'm doing it ( Read more... )

This makes two now. I must be stopped!

Anyway, the book meme (stolen from
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Today I got a kitty!  My student's cousin's cat had kittens, and I got one of them.  I think it's a girl, although I'm no expert at sexing kittens so I could very well be wrong (I'll find out for sure soon enough when I take her to the vet).


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She's all better!

Most of you will recall that I was in a car accident in early September and that my precious baby was hurt pretty badly. Well, just under three months later, I've got her back. She was finished last week, actually, but I couldn't pick her up until today. I talked to the body shop guy for a while and he apologized for taking so ( Read more... )

This post is a small gift for iheartbridges. It's a bunch of pictures I took of the Millau Viaduct on my recent trip. Enjoy, bridgey. And you're welcome to take any of them that you like.

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