Dec 17th
Debt vs retirement
Q: Is it more important to pay off debts or to save for...
Dec 17th
In an effort to break up the tedium of my life I like to ask...
Dec 16th
Oatmeal Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes
1/2 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup low-fat milk 1 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose...
Dec 16th
the moon is not only beautiful it is so far away…
Dec 16th
no, the moon ain’t romantic, it’s intimidating...
Dec 16th
etsy
Dec 16th
Listen
Dec 16th
Resolutions for 2010:
1. Keep track of every movie I see in the coming year. I see so few, it should be easy. 2. See more...
Dec 16th
8:54 pm: Chewing my nails
Dec 16th
This is so Strangers with Candy!
Geoffrey Jellineck: You...
Dec 16th
I like cranky* people.
There’s no pretense. (*Not mean people. I hate it when people are mean to me).
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
Franklin Expedition
1845: Franklin expedition sails from England1845–46: Expedition winters on Beechey Island. Three crewmen die of tuberculosis and are buried.
1846: Ships trapped in the ice off King William Island.
1847, May 28: Date of first note, says "All well"
1847, June 11: Franklin dies.
1848: Date of second note, saying 24 men have died and the survivors plan to start marching south on April 26 to the Back River
1851 (?): Inuit hunters see four men still trying to head south, last sighting of survivors (as reported to Charles Hall)
1854: John Rae interviews local Inuit, who give him items from the expedition and tell him the men starved to death, after resorting to cannibalism
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How did they go from "all well" in May to Franklin dying a scant 2 weeks later? I guess that's British optimism in action.
Dec 15th
Copyright Act
Does anyone understand it? In addition to being confused by it, I accidentally printed the whole...
Dec 15th
12:44 pm: Gingerbread man and tea
Dec 15th
I was looking forward to snow this morning. All we got is...
Dec 15th
My Cold:
My cold has progressed to stage 2. The gross stage. Lots of nose blowing. As long as I take lots of...
Dec 15th
I saw that fat guy too! (before I saw this rendition)
...
Dec 15th
Doesn’t it just feel like this sometimes?
Dec 15th
I will not buy a kindle.
(That’s to make it easy for the market researchers.)
Dec 15th
It’s depressing to get old and realize that you will...
Dec 15th
I like it when things are neatly segmented, knick knacks...
Dec 15th
Way to sell it. Who would want to go anywhere in Canada this...
Dec 15th
winter boots
Dec 15th
Today my coworker told me I looked like...
This gal. I always knew the day was coming when someone would say that though I didn’t think...
Dec 15th
Hugs
A new Canadian study has found that people who get hugs regularly are more likely to report better...
Dec 14th
I made it to work
Even though my head feels like a snot balloon and I’m all hopped up on decongestants (which so...
Dec 14th
Dec 12th
I woke up in a funk
I think I’m coming down with a cold…but then I have moments when I feel ok which makes...
Dec 12th
Pigeons and letters, together at last.
Dec 12th
“He kissed her hard; she kissed back and then bit him on the...”
— NYT
— NYT
Dec 12th
I am making a korean pancake
because there is nothing else to eat. This is a gross injustice when sick - won’t someone come...
Dec 11th
O, el stomacho
I feel like I’m coming down with something.
Dec 11th
This morning it was -5
Still no snow. We live in a really old place that doesn’t have central heating except in one...
Dec 7th
Hamster in the tree
Dec 6th
We got a tree - only slightly deformed. It was the cheapest...
Dec 6th
Watch
I just bought this HBO special.
Dec 6th
Scratchy turtleneck sweater
Why are you ruining my life?
Dec 5th
Things that make me laugh
Janeane Garofalo describing herself as “looking like a fetus” when not wearing eyebrow...
Dec 5th
I’m not really one to peddle products, but I just...
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
Peanut Update
Crap - the crows found them.
Dec 5th
Here is my dilemma
I can take Monday and Tuesday off but then I have to work on the 29th & 30th - breaking up my...
Dec 5th
Peanut Update
Ok, a car just drove by and pulverized some of them into peanut butter.
Dec 5th
I just spent 15 minutes trying to lure this guy out of the...
Dec 5th
Listen
Don’t know who sings this.
Dec 5th
I'm so cold I'm having a hard time...
My feet are the worst. Blocks of ice. I put a pile of peanuts outside for the squirrels. I...
Dec 5th
Dec 5th
These days I'm almost constantly in...
Is this normal? Well, not normal…but you know - abnormal normal.
Dec 5th
Jesus walking on the water Sweet Jesus walking in the sky
...
Dec 5th
____day
Dec 5th
I just bought this book. Here is a writing sample of Ms....
Dec 5th
This dog was disbelieving that I wanted to take his picture...
Dec 5th
How I want my hair to look. Maybe I should style my hair...
Dec 5th
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
An advent calendar.
The person who gave it to me told me to...
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
Christina Rossetti
“When I am dead my dearest, sing no sad song for me, Plant thou no roses at my head, nor shady...
Dec 4th
Apparently there is snow arriving on Sunday. It’s cold...
Dec 4th
Could this be the most famous line in literature? Other than...
Dec 4th
Crappity Crap
I’m tired. I got up early. I want to go back to bed but I have to go to the dentist to get my...
Dec 4th
Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Dec 4th
Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Dec 4th
Solved: Where the Wild Things Are
I confess that I don’t often understand movies. Unless they are obviously about one thing or...
Dec 4th
The main purpose of the Malleus Maleficarum was to refute...
Dec 4th
My buns. Don’t they look like mis-matched slippers?
Dec 4th
“Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance ages ago;...”
— Robert Browning
— Robert Browning
Dec 4th
I ordered this, clean wood box Square as a chair and almost...
Dec 4th
Listen
I song I love so much.
My friend (KG) transferred it from a record and put it on a CD for me. I...
Dec 4th
Snow!? Were supposed to get snow?
Dec 4th
I saw this tonite.
The monsters are very dysfunctional. One...
Dec 4th
I need a book
that’s as good as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials that’s not as heavy as...
Dec 4th
I don’t know what this means.
I will ask my friend...
Dec 4th
Science corner
Yes, those two pieces of wood fit together...
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
I spent some of almost every day of my undergrad on the...
Dec 4th
What I really want to do is fall asleep
but I should go see a movie or something -part of my plan to take advantage of my time off and not...
Dec 4th
Mulder: You have to be willing to see.
Scully: I wish it were that simple.
Mulder: Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.
Scully: I wish it were that simple.
Mulder: Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion.
Dec 3rd
Beatrix Potter and Benjamin
Dec 3rd
Frogs are dumb
Dec 3rd
Library Hotel
Dec 3rd
The truth is I hate Roald Dahl
Even though his last name is an Indian dish I could eat all day. Even though Wes Anderson is a great...
Dec 3rd
calligraphy mice
Dec 3rd
The world's most lethal bridge
Dec 3rd
Now is already over.
Dec 3rd
Descartes' rotten apples
Suppose [a person] had a basket full of apples and, being worried that some of the apples were...
Dec 3rd
This bunny agreed to pose for a photo.
Dec 3rd
I love getting Christmas mail. It’s probably the best...
Dec 3rd
Bad dreams
Last night I had nightmare that actually woke me up at the crescendo of fear. It was the kind that...
Dec 3rd
Listen
Henry Hall - Original Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Dec 3rd
I'm eating a knish
That’s Jewish for “It burns the roof of my mouth”
Dec 2nd
I put this in the useless but colorful category
Dec 2nd
Has anyone stayed at the Chelsea Hotel?
Is it as bad as the reviews on Tripadvisor say it is?
Dec 2nd
Listen
And the snow Though it falls It never falls hard enough It masks the smooth Exposes the rough
Dec 2nd
Dec 2nd
-2 this morning
Winter is creeping in.
Dec 2nd
Dec 2nd
Money
Even though I had used up all my extended coverage way back in August and I don’t have more...
Dec 2nd
50 points to anyone who can identify what this is from.
Dec 2nd
Dec 2nd
Today at lunch
Today at lunch a gang of us walked over to the lunch place, inviting another girl to join us who...
Dec 2nd
Dec 1st
Orient yourself.
Dec 1st
The thing that I don’t get about this book is that the...
Dec 1st
flightofthekings:
First day of December. 9 days until I’m...
Dec 1st
Maybe we were always broken, fragile things. Who knows?
...
Dec 1st
Yes Ma’am!
nuclearsodapop: via appleonastick
Dec 1st
Reports
To write a good report, one should read all the material available on the subject, choosing the best...
Dec 1st
“Originally just a pile of books like those in so many other...”
— That’s the kind of...
— That’s the kind of...
Dec 1st
I’d be happy too.
Dec 1st
Things I'm looking forward to about...
I don’t feel right about delving into these prematurely. I need to save something for when I...
Dec 1st
On a scale of 1-10
My family uses this scale to indicate to other family members the severity of their feelings about...
Dec 1st
“Green Metropolis, a recent book by David Owen, a writer for...”
— I would say this is somewhat...
— I would say this is somewhat...
Dec 1st
Get that Christmas stuff out of storage.
Dec 1st
a tiny acorn
Dec 1st
Tuesday Morning
Off to work I go. This is my last day before VACATION! (For some reason when I say that, in my head...
Dec 1st
It’s 3 degrees this morning. But not sunny. This...
Dec 1st
Dec 1st