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just a friendly but tired wave to whoever sees this
So, while suffering through a horrid cold, I thought to myself today that it surely has been several months since I last even read LJ. Maybe I peeked at it once or twice in April. Maybe ( Read more... ) -
on earworms, and humanity's next 100 years
I have an unpleasantly drippy head cold today, which is keeping me resting in front of a computer screen instead of completing some much needed chores about the house. (I hope that the other three humans with whom I share a roof won't mind this too greatly. So far, they all have been most kind.)
So... I figure I might as well break my long LJ ( Read more... ) -
coming up for air
So... It's been a very long time since I made any non-private entries here. I've been very extremely overwhelmed ( Read more... ) -
just a quick check-in
I've made it to Hong Kong ( Read more... ) -
travels, and bits of miscellany
It's sure been a while since I've written anything here. Life's distractions have been... well... distracting. Without going into the multitude of reasons why, let's just say that I've generally been very stressed out lately-- especially so in the past month, even though I did just one full day of summer teaching. (A lot of it is worry about the ( Read more... ) -
practicing the physicality of laughter
I've been stressed from many different sides lately. Some of it is bad, some okay, some quite good even, but mostly just getting rather overwhelming ( Read more... ) -
perfect earthquake timing
This was funny enough to me that I want to share ( Read more... ) -
This upsets me...
The Catholic Pope, who exerts considerable influence over more than a billion people worldwide (with half of those billion living here in the Americas, my home) has declared homosexuality and transgender acceptance to be very grave threats, equal in concern to environmental destruction such as deforestation, global warming, and so on ( Read more... ) -
Chilean hero dog
I hadn't known about this until reading a very short news story saying that the Chilean authorities have pretty much given up searching for the canine hero shown in action in this clip. (I imagine they want to reward this dog for showing such fearlessly attentive compassion for another!) I searched for and found this clip on YouTube, and I felt ( Read more... )
