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Taurus: The daytime TV soap opera The Young and the Restless has been the most highly-rated show in its time slot for more than a thousand consecutive weeks. First appearing in 1973, the show ascended to the top slot in 1988 and has never slipped since. I'm happy to announce that in 2008 you have the potential to begin a comparable run of success, ( Read more... )

Friday
I ran errands in town and then went to Austin for Carly (gwenevre1) and Peter's Ostara Party that night. Where I got to meet Kat (evegryffindor) for the first time in three years of off and on talking online. Aside from a handful of disconcerting conversational revelations, the night was purely amazingness. I was glad to see Carly again, plus meeting Peter and ( Read more... )

Articles
* "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature" by Abdul R. Jan Mohamed
* "A Very Very Short Story" by Earnest Hemmingway

Books
* The Empire Writes Back (Introduction, Ch. 1 Cutting the Ground, Critical Models for Post-Colonial Literatures ( Read more... )

Tuckered. Bought two dresses. Bought two Christmas presents. Shipped three packages. Took far too long. Hate shopping.

Hate shopping at Christmas time.Next door neighbors are surprisingly talking really loud through the livingroom wall. Either that or playing a movie loudly. Am not really perturbed by this, just surprised. I haven't heard a peep ( Read more... )