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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps!
wow, only 10 steps needed to go from democratic, free, open society to a closed, fascist potential dictorship! who knew!?! i know its easier to just poo-poo this for being a wee bit extreme, but frankly, i would not put anything pass the people who are running this country today...
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the b-mother saga continues....
as if getting an email out of the blue that says "hi, my name is lynnei think i might be your birth mother..." is not bizarre enough, my life continues to get even stranger!
the news i got yesterday, you can call it serendipity, call it fate, call it karma, call it life's strange little ironies, call it god...whatever, its just weird, wonderful, and ( Read more... ) -
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i spent the past 2 days trying to wrap my brain around the events that have transpired over the weekend. i replied late saturday night to the woman who apparently gave birth to me and then waited for a reply, wondering all along "is this real!?!" i obsessed over did i say the "right" things!?! i mean, what do you say to a woman who you do not know ( Read more... ) -
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today i opened my email to find the following message:
"My name is Lynne. I found your name on this website. I believe I am your birth mother."
as i read further i realized that this was not a mistake. she knew enough of the details of my birth and subsequent adoption to not be mistaken, or at least i can say, it is a reasonable assumption to ( Read more... ) -
busy busy busy
*phew*
i had thought for some reason that life would be slower and a wee bit calmer once school was done, but at least for the past month or so, its still been on full throttle. (hence the lack of paying attention to things like LJ and missing out on things such as
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testing the waters of the "real world" again
monday i start a part-time gig with the WI DOT. its a GIS position, indeed, a job utilizing the supposed skills and knowledge that i was to aquire this past year...needless to say i am nervous. i feel significantly less than prepared for this kind of work, which is both furstrating and disheartinging given the +10K i just dropped this past year on ( Read more... ) -
Tired of feeling like your voice isnt being heard? STEP IT UP!
this saturday has been proclaimed National Day of Climate Action. and a very grassroots movement called Step It Up 2007 is looking to turn this day in to the largest protest specifically against policies that are week on climate change EVER!
i just learned about this a few weeks ago when the amazing environmental writer bill mckibben spoke here ( Read more... ) -
book nerd, big surprise!
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd
Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's ( Read more... ) -
happy pi day!
yay 3.14.....!!!!
