And i am now scared shitless, having tons of second thoughts. Not about sexual predators or that sort of thing, but about even putting myself out there like this ( Read more... )

Been a while since i posted here, but eh ( Read more... )

So last year i started working at the local new age shop as an unpaid intern in exchange for attending workshops. It rapidly moved from a Sundays-only thing to a "whenever we need you" thing, and i was working. As in, running the register, cleaning the store, and doing whatever else the owners wanted ( Read more... )

That i don't qualify for financial aid this semester - my last, i might add - because the financial aid department has decided that a full degree should be only 110 credits and i already have that, and the school has a policy of not allowing people to take any extra classes at all ( Read more... )

"You are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours . . . was lost and is found."

I do understand the point of the parable of the prodigal son. I do. Honest.

( And i hate it. )

When you're trying to use the old "i'm a published author, so i totally know everything about writing - how dare you criticize what i say" line, it is probably a good idea to make sure that the person you're pulling that line on is not emself a published author, with more (and more widely known) books to er name than you have ( Read more... )

A reasonably popular deconstruction blog, where the blogger repeatedly shuts down any "off-topic" comment, because this violates "safe space ( Read more... )

Was a part of the prayer room of a mosque (according to the plaque; i do not know the proper term), set into the wall of one of the Freer's* galleries ( Read more... )

So these past few days i've been down with cluster headaches, and then recovering from the swarm, and so in between bouts i've been catching up on my reading. The theme this week, entirely by accident, has been on race and the media ( Read more... )

Only because ABC Family was showing it and nothing else was on tv. I was bored and in desperate need of mindless entertainment, and the film at least satisfied the "mindless" part ( Read more... )