NUMBER FIVE: I have never noticed my mom complaining or whining about a difficult situation. She has never tried to weasel her way out of a problem or try to fix it in an unethical manner by lying and trying to protect your own image. My mom taught us that when an unpleasant event or conflict approaches, one should solve it in a direct fashion ( Read more... )

I was listening to Assassins tonight, and for some reason possibly connected or probably unconnected to the musical, it gave me great happiness to think that out of the money I paid for the soundtrack, some percentage of it will go to Stephen Sondheim. It may not be a physical coin or dollar, but at least some unit of mine will become some unit of ( Read more... )

Sadie grows less and less impressed with all this moth catching, measuring, studying, photographing, and photo editing.


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Very, very alien.


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With the Harold and Maude soundtrack as motivation, I just downloaded a Cat Stevens album with a Christmas gift card (Thanks Aunt Sally!). His voice sounds strangely familiar, which bugged me for a while, until I realized who he reminded me of. I wonder if Cat Stevens and Nina Simone ever duetted; when he goes high and she goes low, it's pretty ( Read more... )

I hardly ever get cereal for breakfast, and now I remember why. I was grocery shopping and someone handed me a coupon for a box of cereal, so I bought it, and now I am eating 2-3 bowls at a time. Yum, but also ouch.

I knew I had gone irrevocably plebeian when I started recording episodes of Extreme Home Makeover and weeping off and on throughout the whole show. I know it's somewhat - ok, completely - exploitative, and overly maudlin, and what we see on screen is a lot of fabrication. But despite this list of bad traits, I can't help enjoying it ( Read more... )

Here's my first big moth on my first night of setting out a light for moths!


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Does baby corn in stir fries have any nutritional value? Those things gross me out. Not as much as olives do, but close to it. Bleurgh ( Read more... )

When I look for alligators during a nighttime nature walk, I always have known that the best way to do this is to shine the flashlight along the water's edge, looking for a golden reflection from the eyes. I feel rather dumb now, because I didn't realize this would work for all creatures, not just alligators. I discovered from a book that if you ( Read more... )