Perhaps writing an anxiety down makes it go away: since I wrote about Artemis's excessive salivation problem the other day, I haven't seen her do it once, nor have I found evidence that she has been drooling anywhere when out of my sight! Maybe she's just chewed on a bad blade of grass in the backyard once or twice, or something like that.... **** Chris has a desk calendar that celebrates Monty Python...

Amazingly, I never saw Four Weddings and a Funeral until tonight, when it was my DVD/PVR pick (I'd "taped" it a couple of weeks ago); I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I'm writing here because of the poem John Hannah's character recites at the funeral of his lover Gareth, by W.H. Auden. It was extremely moving, but I didn't know it, and so I went looking in my general poetry books to find it. Couldn't find...

Not as busy as textualdeviance , but then I'm not preparing to sell a house or anything like it {g}! But we have had some activity sort of related, i.e., moving stuff around inside the house that we have. Our handyperson K was over last Tuesday, when he replastered all the cracks in the alcove in our bedroom on the third floor - I don't think the cracks were dangerous, but I was worried...

textualdeviance hates Texas because she "can't imagine living in a place where I couldn't be sure that my neighbors wouldn't decide to lynch me if I adopted a child from another race, or traded in my husband for a wife" , because obviously all Texans are racist lynch-happy homophobes. She's formed this opinion because she's zomg "been to Texas". There are soooooo many stupids in that entire...

I am so goddamn tired of people right now. Between THIS jackass in ontd_p shitting on Texas like she knows anything about it, bitches in ffa, and the people I've had to deal with on the phone at work today, I've had enough to handle me the next few days. I was supposed to go to the Austin Adventure Club mixer tonight to meet our fellow adventurers, but I don't feel like it at ALL. I'm sure everyone...

Quotable Quotes Get Medieval - The universe doesn't hate you.   It just likes to tease.  "I've spent my whole life stickin' it to the man.  I don't think I can be the man." -- Jack O'Neill, Stargate SG-1 Random observation from me:  Men seem to have four hands when you're dating, but as soon as a baby with a dirty diaper is around they suddenly lose the extras.   "Mass genocide...

textualdeviance on sex ed classes: I always loved that little bit about how abstinence education is there to teach you that sex is a horrible, dirty, evil, nasty thing that you should save up to do with someone you really love. Rubber Context

Here's another entry for the "issues ontd_p actually disagrees about" file: Whether sex offenders deserve to be randomly beaten by angry vigilantes . Round 1: loathingfear argues in favor , but gets shouted down. Round 2: lonestarpheonix joins the fray , and if you guessed that her argument would have to do with race... well, that just means you know who she is. I guess the idea...

So this week's award for most facepalm-inducing comment goes to textualdeviance , for implying that anyone who's ever been in love would understand the virtues of income redistribution . Well okay then.

One good thing about going away on vacation for a week is that when I come back, I've got lots of work coming at me. Actually, I had two reports coming in the day before I left for San Diego, but I decided to leave them until I got home because I was dealing with too much other stuff right at that moment. So when I got back, I had those two reports waiting to be done, and email from Ellen, my boss's...