It's going to be another *loooooong* night. I can feel the tug-a-war between my circadian rhythm and Hypnos already. Who will win? A no-brainer. I'm going to be up for a while. And even though aI need to sleep, I'm going to go back to writing again. I'll have the brain equivalent of walking funny the morning after when I get up to hang with my wee one, but them's the breaks, methinks. I'll take an...

Thanks to Natalka's awesome ability to score the last available room at the Hilton (yeah, there were probably rooms across the street anyway but still...), we're going to be able to go. It will be just the two of us, but we've been working out plans and comparing schedules of conferences we want to attend. So far, we're pretty scattered, though we both want to attend lectures and presentations by...

Adding a few bitch points since I'm sick, recovering from hosting friends all last week, and the clusterfuck of the in-law situation, I am providing the following link with a fair bit of cynicism. Nonetheless, I stumbled over it while putting together my "volunteer" discussion topic for church tomorrow morning. I decided to take the advice of lokhi  and leave out the vampirism bit... Until...

A - Attentive B - Brutally honest. (So much so it takes two words.) C - Considerate D - Delicious! E - Esoteric F - Fierce! G - Gutsy (You thought I was going to say goth, didn't you?) H - Hermetic I - Intense J - Juvenile (according to some) K - Kinetic L - Luscious M - Me N - Noir O - Opinionated P - Psi Q - Questioning R - Relentless S - Spiritual T - Thoughtful U - "Ungroundable!" Lol V - Voltaire...

I don't know, but we appear to have an infestation. *grin* I'm never very good at wishing farewell to the darker half of the year, save for the brief reasonable environs of spring. So perhaps that's the cause of my angst. Next year is going to be made of win, and helping lead ritual last weekend was much easier than I'd thought. It's great to be able to do what I want to do without worrying bout whether...

I'm so sick of the Conners rating scale, MRIs for my intervenously sedated toddler, DSMIV classifications, genetic testing, red flag behaviors, pediatric psychiatrists, school bullshit, teacher consultants who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground... The whole nine yards. I am a parent and it is my job to do all I can for my babies. Just getting through the whole warning signs to an evaluation...

This one was entertaining. The site is full of these and I am going to click away from it slowly and get my shoes and gardening gloves on... I have work to do... The Extreme Sexual Purity Test The extremely long and in-depth new sexual purity test. Not for the faint of heart. You have earned 523 points out of a possible 780 . The test is based on a point scale, where you earn...

I got this from Izazoo and am a sucker for these things. So... The Life Experience Test Overall, you have partaken in 116 out of 174 possible life experiences. Your average life experience score is therefore 67% . The average score is 49% , making your experiences more than 92% of the people who have taken this test. The average for your age group (26-35) is 52% ...

And it loves me so much it's absolutely refusing to leave my head with a steadfastness that rivals any Eurotrance Happy Hardcore number. But it's great and like in my top rotation at the moment. So here you go; the song you won't be rid of from a little creepy girl. The gift that keeps on giving, and a kickass vid to boot.

As one of the many who went to see Twilight this last Friday, I couldn't help but think about how in vogue vampirism and the goth look seem to be this season. There have even been poorly written puff pieces designed to shock and/or frighten the unassuming public into the reality of our existence in local papers all over the country, doubtlessly inspired by the starry-eyed infatuation of Bella Swan...