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The good news is that I didn't have a heart attack
The Bad news is that I have yet another unneccessary trip to the emergency room to put on my credit card bill along with a ride in an ambulance and a hospital stay. It really sucks to have nuisance ailments whose symptoms imitate the warning signs of a heart attack. Carried out on a gurney in the glow of those flashing red lights, people looking ( Read more... ) -
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I am rediscovering, as I do every year around this time, that I am never so interested in getting cleaning projects done around the apartment as I am when it's time to sit down and do my taxes. -
Book talk
Hey, x_ice. Noticed that, as predicted, you weren't able to make it to the March meeting for the Speculations group at Elliott Bay. Did your kitties eventually accept the intrusion of The Lonely Werewolf Girl into your world? How long did it take you to finish ( Read more... ) -
Gunslinger Girl
I've been having an anime orgy this weekend with the various titles available to me via Comcast's On Demand feature. I want to see as much of it as I can before I have to cancel my digital cable and bust myself down to rock-bottom basic ( Read more... ) -
Chapter title found in a book at work
"Old McDonald Has No Farm: He Dies, She Dies, Sold."*
Clever. Depressing as all get out. But clever. -
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Hey purple_mark...
Maybe those apocolyptic images are making the rounds in people's night thoughts. I also slept in this morning culminating in a dream that Mt. Rainier was starting to erupt. There was black smoke coming out of the top of it as we looked south and the pumice that was falling out of the sky was also black like little lumps of coal. -
snow...
How weird for it to be snowing when half the sky is blue. -
Lonely Werewolf Girl
The March book for the Speculations book group at Elliott Bay is The Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar. Just started it this morning. I was kind of hesitant about the choice -- it's so much fatter than his other book that we also looked at (The Good Fairies of New York)-- but now that I've started reading it I've realized it's going to be ( Read more... ) -
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Jimmy Kimmel at his after-the-Oscars show: "Slum Dog Millionaire won best picture this year. It was the favorite going in. Looked like the only way it might lose was if it picked Sarah Palin as a running mate."