Well. I didn't get into grad school. I guess I have another year of recreational reading, eh ( Read more... )

Favorite spam subject line of the day: "Don't be a moron, Deirdre."

Hooray, Cate Blanchett!!!

And Beyonce, please go away. (Seriously - during the song from The Chorus I was saying to myself, "Did they wait until yesterday to give her the music or something?")

I hope you're spending it with someone who loves you ( Read more... )

My boss, who is a sweet lady but sometimes I swear must have a brain the size of a kumquat, went all by her lonesome to select the firm's Christmas cards this year and came back with an adorable selection featuring a partridge, a pear tree, and envelopes that are TOO FUCKING SMALL FOR THE PRINTER. So yours truly now gets to address approximately ( Read more... )

My journal is called _____ because _____.

I've called my journal "Thoroughly Unprofessional" because, well, I am, since I insist on playing with my LJ at work when I should probably be filing or typing something.

My friends page is called _____ because _____."Snazzy", because it is a collection of the LJs of Snazzy people. What a great word, " ( Read more... )

Back from a field trip to the bank. Crazy Lady in front of me was harassing the tellers - reprimanding them for being new and not having any of the more long-term employees up at the window because she apparently likes "to do [her] banking with familiar faces." Um, okay ( Read more... )

So, let us not be blind to our differences -- but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small ( Read more... )

Right now I’m reading Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann (Yeah, I had kind of been hoping that by this point it would be more of an exercise in history and less applicable to the current situation, but oh well. Know thine enemy, and all, I guess...). Very well written. Last night, I was struck by a particular ( Read more... )

Not my final political post, obviously, but my final with regards to the outcome of Tuesday:

Go to the BBC website's electoral college map, click on the Past Elections tab, and check out how things have changed and the colors have shifted over the years. It makes me feel better when I remember that nothing in politics is ever all that permanent ( Read more... )