tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50725182012-02-16T20:19:09.258-08:00As a Christian, I am born of the Water and the Blood of Christ; diluted wine. But I struggle and fall, succeed and fail. I forget who I am. I become deluded wine.Joihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07757013732505715189noreply@blogger.comBlogger4111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072518.post-8819863082477614202009-01-22T09:42:00.000-08:002009-01-22T09:43:45.997-08:00

A Dream of MarsIn 2008, thousands of people fell in love with a robot, far from its home, out in the cold of space. No, not Wall-E: the Mars Explorer, nicknamed “Phoenix.” Aside from its obvious purposes of space exploration and study, the Mars Explorer was also a new step for NASA when it became one of the most followed accounts on Twitter. In early November, the Explorer ceased communicating

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It's time again for my traditional New Year's blog post. I heard this song sung at a New Year's service at church years ago; the pastor read the names of all those who had passed away during the year. A woman then got up, and sang this song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne:It singeth low in every heartWe hear it each and allA song of those who answer notHowever we may call. They throng the silence

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An open letter from a young conservative:I am proud to call myself a conservative. Even when my views have made me unpopular among others my age, I am proud to have stood for my beliefs. But at the moment, I am very angry and almost ashamed to identify with conservatives. Why? Because the other conservatives that I see are acting like spoiled children. Every time one of your fellow conservatives

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In honor of the Mars Phoenix, now shutting down in the Martian winter. www.twitter.com/marsphoenix.The frigid wind whipped the icy sand against her helmet as she rounded the small rock outcropping. She staggered for a moment before regaining her balance and pushed forward. Her communicator crackled. “Eagle1, you ok out there?”She activated the transmitter, and responded.“Everything’s fine out

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I could survive for 54 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

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very funny vid! The news media does remind me of hyenas, these days...

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Palin: Do NOT mess with the Barracuda!http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l242/Joitheartist/Political/libertybelle.jpgAgain, I don't normally do politics on my blog. But after Sarah Palin's fantastic speech last night, I want to put out a few words. Mostly in response to this bit of silliness: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/biden-on-palin-whoa/Most notably, to this paragraph: “It was

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Absolutely fabulous program on Media Lizzy’s show today. You can check out the podcast here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/HeadingRight/MediaLizzy/2008/08/12/The-Political-Affair-and-Election-CultureI am proud of my country, and I love America. Neither popular sentiments nowadays. It’s much “cooler” to be snarky, sarcastic, and critical. And God knows, America has her faults. But America

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Most people who read this blog know that while I’m interested in politics and have definite stances on many issues, I don’t really follow things that closely. While I vote Republican, I’m not that thrilled with either party.But anyone who’s looked at this blog in the past week knows that I’ve become involved with the #DontGo Movement, www.dontgomovement.com and http://dontgo.us.In the past week,

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Open letter to my representative.To the Hon. Gary G. Miller, 42nd District.Dear Sir;I am writing to state my extreme frustration with the House; it is unconscionable to leave on a paid vacation after blocking debate about the American energy crisis. While our representives are writing off their gas expenses, the people are paying out the nose, cancelling vacations, etc.Some members of the House

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In case you haven't heard, many of the House Republicans have given up their paid vacations to work towards a solution for the current energy crisis. The House Democrats left the House, turned off the lights and the mikes, and left town rather than even allow the issues up for debate.Speaker Pelosi has actually refused to even allow this topic to come up for debate. http://abcnews.go.com/video/

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These are just some thoughts, in response to current affairs within the Anglican Communion, the Catholic blogs I've been reading, and the service of prayer for the Anglican Communion recently held in many Anglican churches around the world (the sermon National Apostasy was preached during this service at my church--this astoundingly timely and relevant message can be found here: http://

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Cool looking contest here: http://www.youtube.com/funnelproductionsMight be worth looking into!

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OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

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more graph humor and song chart memes

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more graph humor and song chart memesOh, this site is fun...http://graphjam.com

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It CAME. My 3-cd set of a dramatic reading of Beowulf. UNabridged. In the original Old English.   *DROOOOOOOOL*   P.S. Hey, would anybody out there be up for a Beowulf party? We could get English translations and follow along with the cd! How cool would that be???

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Ok, trying the whole Classical Ed blog thing again. www.classicalbookworm.blogspot.com   Come and comment! Join the blog! Throw tomatoes at it, or something!

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This article is long, but it is really worthwhile to read the whole thing. trust me.   Part 1 is here: http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000172.html Part 2 is linked at the end of part 1, or here: http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000171.html

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You Are a CommaYou are open minded and extremely optimistic.You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything.You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests.You find it hard to turn down an opportunity, even if you are pressed for time.Your friends find you fascinating, charming, and easy to talk to.(But with so many competing interests, you

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331313,00.html   This story should creep out anyone who's read The Mountains of Madness, by Lovecraft.  

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The Origin of the HumorI was just thinking lately about how senses of humor develop. I don't remember much about my sense of humor as a child, but I'm fairly sure it was based on very bad puns (thanks, Dad!) and very dry elephant jokes (thanks, mom!). I also enjoyed parodies and verbal sparring, but am not so skilled in those fine arts. I hardly ever understood the humor of my peers: I still

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Of all the commentary I've seen this morning on the announcement, I think (no surprise) that John C. Wright says it best.   http://johncwright.livejournal.com/2008/02/19/   Sic semper tyrannis.  

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I've been reading the headlines here from work (shh, don't tell!) and thinking. For anyone who missed it, here's the text of Romney's speech to CPAC: http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/CPAC_Address   I can't help but wonder if part of Romney's problem in campaigning was that he was too much of a gentleman. He wouldn't stoop to smears like McCain and Huckabee did (Hey, I actually

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Romney is suspending his campaign. SIGH. But I think he's probably doing the right thing, since the conservatives continued to split their votes between Huckabee and romney on Super Tuesday. Maybe next time....Romney for 2012? Sounds good to me!   I'm keeping the Romney banner on my blog until I know for sure who the GOP nominee is.

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A rare politcal postI almost never talk politics on this blog, but with it being Super Tuesday, I couldn't resist. This comes from Fox News (link here) :Huckabee’s accusation followed Romney’s remarks to FOX News last week, in which the former Massachusetts governor said: “A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, and if they want John McCain as their nominee … that’s exactly what the vote would

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This is a meditation I've been working on for several days. I was recently able to spend several lovely rainy hours reading T. S. Eliot on my balcony. That sort of environment is very conducive to odd strains of thought while reading the Four Quartets, and this piece is the result of that. Please feel free to critique!Reading Eliot in the Rain I sit out on my balcony, with an old copy of the

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Shamelessly stolen from Julie at HappyCatholic.blogspot.com!   Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Well, until last year, it was Pride and Prejudice. But then I finally read it and liked it, so...hmmm. Have to pick a new irrational dislike soon. If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon

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I am re-posting this, because I want some of my writing groups to see it, and don't feel like moderating comments that far back in the archives Four years ago, in my friend's English class, the prof was talking about the idea of the sublime, and said that some things, such as elephants running off a cliff into the sea in a rainstorm, could not be sublime. Liz, of course, took this as a

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I have fallen in love with this group! (h/t to Anne for telling me about them). They are...well...i guess you could say Renaissance rock, or something like that. This is a video of them doing a lovely version of The Times They Are A-Changing.

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http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?Sumdaywellfin128454186630468750.jpg

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A much-neglected author I suspect that many people have heard of the books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but that relatively few remain who have actually read them. After all, to say that you are reading A Princess of Mars, or God forbid, Tarzan, tends to bring a laugh in reading circles, and outright derision in regular social circles.But Burroughs is a wonderful pulp writer. (if you think I mean "

Joihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07757013732505715189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072518.post-60589930418484041862008-01-09T09:15:00.000-08:002008-01-09T09:35:09.137-08:00

I just finished reading one of the oddest books I've ever encountered (other books on the list include The High House, Canticle for Leibowitz, the books of Charles Williams and George McDonald, Dune, etc). It is also, like the other books on the list, one of the best books I have ever read. The book is Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn. The book has a rather bizarre premise; it tends to make

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Vote for my LOLcats!http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?Maiturfuiso128440732631093750.jpghttp://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?gotstasneez128440733740156250.jpghttp://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?3WiseKittehs128440735130468750.jpghttp://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?uisgettindesp128440738334687500.jpghttp://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?

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When I was a young child, perhaps 7, I attended a church service that affected me deeply. It was around New Year's, and the pastor read aloud the names of those in the congregation who had died the previous year. After he had read the list, a soloist sang a song that almost made me cry with its loveliness and sentiment; I made a point to memorize the song. It is my practice to think of this song

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moar funny pictures

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I've been thinking lately about my co-worker. She is a very devout follower of a religion that I consider to be a false one, but I simply have to admire her actions. In the office she never participates in any of the holiday celebrations, since they are not observed by her faith tradition, but she never makes a big deal about it, either. The office radio is right behind her, and she never

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Ok, I really am going to try to keep up with my blog.   For those of you who don't know, on Saturday, I went to a community theatre performance in South Pasadena. There were only 80 seats in the theatre, so it was a pretty intimate crowd. The plays performed were based on short stories by my favorite living author(and one of my tope three fav of all time), Ray Bradbury. Mr. Bradbury himself

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I met him on a blustery day in late October. I was sitting on a bus stop bench, reading the day's newspaper, trying to ignore the damp chill sinking into my bones. The South is incredibly beautiful, but humid beyond my usual tolerance. It was a gray overcast day, so I was surprised to see a thin young man wearing sunglasses walk out of a coffee shop across the street. His green scarf was

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Last night, at approximately 9:33pm, I hit the golden 100,000 words on my novel.   Oh. Yeah. Baby.   http://www.viddler.com/explore/SaintJoi/videos/63/ingroup/nanowrimo/

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...but I've been busy noveling. My current wordcount is 55,000 words. In 12 days. For anyone who doesn't know, that's flipping insane. My brain is starting to feel a little fried right now, but no more than usual for NaNo. That's kind of the scary thing--writing an average of 5000 words a day has not been that difficult. It takes effort of course, and some days it takes a lot to push through

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This is getting distracting...you ever see a fractal? I feel like my story is like that: whenever I look at a part of it that looks simple, it suddenly into this complex thing with way more history and story than will ever appear in the novel. Yikes.   I've decided what my novel is like: think Swiftly Tilting Planet meets Babylon 5. That sums it up oddly well, actually. I've got things very

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AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I'm dying to start writing!  

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You'll love this book! http://www.lulu.com/content/1310566   NaNoisms, compiled by Wrimos.   NaNoism: to quote one Wrimo: "A cross between a typo and a grenade. A normal typo is just annoying, but a NaNoism is a typo that smashes everything in the vicinity into nonsense."   Wrimo: participant of NaNoWriMo   Examples: "Adam ran through the chicken and bumped into Justian. " "-- the highest

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I love the NaNo forums...   We have the Christian thread, the atheist thread, the agnostic thread....   And now the Pastafarian thread. All hail the noodley appendage!   I love the NaNo forums.

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Payday! This means I can finally donate to NaNoWriMo and get a pack of merit badges! Huzzah for the halo!   Yes, I know I am making no sense. It's the pre-November incoherency.

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After a lovely few hours in the kitchen earlier in the week, I've decided that I want to learn how to can fruits and veggies! Fortunately, it looks like the boiling water bath method will do what I need, so I won't have to mess with a pressure canner. Huzzah! I love the idea of making my own preserves! Even better if I can learn how to do it by Christmas and give some as gifts.  

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http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/pixar-developing-john-carter-of-mars-trilogy/   This makes me so happy! Dejah Thoris done by Pixar! John Carter on the big screen!   *bounces around in happy little circles*

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One of the oddest pleasures of NaNoWriMo is that you have no life during November. This sounds weird; why is it so much fun to spend practically every spare moment working like crazy on a book that will almost certainly never be published, and only rarely seen by anyone else?   The death of your social life means that you end up very focused for one month. It's astounding what you can

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If any one ever needs a gift idea for me, I'm trying to collect the works of Chesterton, published by Ignatius Press. The only volume I have so far is the one with Francis of Assisi, The Everlasting Man, and Thomas Aquinas.  

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...your boss and the IT guy get into a war seeing whose little plastic Halloween witch has the scariest cackle.   So not kidding.

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Just a quick post, to let everyone know about a very cool webcomic: www.crimsondark.comNicely done, great dialogue, intriguing story, and one of the most gorgeous ships I've ever seen: the Niobe. Go check it out! (And thanks to Adam for the heads-up!)

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  I have cavemen, an Atlantis-like island, a watery world with few continents, 2 renaissances, future guilds of evil historians, and at least 200,000 years of history, economics, ecology, and geology to juggle!!   AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (This is either going to be a ridiculously fun story, or ridiculously excruciating.....)

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IT'S BACK!!! The site is back up, ready for signups!!! Only one month till insanity! Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dances the dance of joy*  

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Ha!!! I rule! Shiny! *dances the dance of joy*

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This is so awesome."Your hair is reminiscent of a self-digesting yak in heat."

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This past weekend, I got to sit and read the first few pages of Tarzan (reading Princess of Mars made me want to read more of Edgar Rice Burroughs' work). Talk about a rollicking good tale! It seemed like a very entertaining book, and even in that short section had one line that made me laugh out loud! I'm hoping to read the whole thing soon, and go on to reading more of his work. I haven't

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It's amazing how soothing a cup of hot, sweet, strong tea can be.

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I have been reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' Princess of Mars lately. ERB tends to get laughed off a bit, since he authored Tarzan, and most people don't even know about his sci-fi.   Why didn't anyone tell me that Burroughs is such a good writer?? I don't think I've enjoyed a pulp book this much since I went on my H. Rider Haggard jag! (and yes, I loved both She and King Solomon's Mines.)  

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So I got a gift card to Barnes and Noble, and decided to get a whole stack of books yesterday. I went into my two favorite sections (Literature and SciFi/Fantasy) and ended up with these: I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe The Idiot, by Dostoyevsky Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs Shadow and Claw: The First Hal of the Book of the New Sun (two books in one volume) by Gene

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The first movie poster for Prince Caspian! It gives me the shivers just to look at it!   http://www.cinematical.com/2007/09/17/exclusive-the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-official-o/  

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So, as some of you know, I recently concluded a practical joke (for lack of a better term) that lasted a little over a year. Now, this wasn't a mean type of joke; it actually involved anonymously giving gifts to people at my workplace. (No, I'm not giving more details than that)  At a recent company-wide meeting, I had finally revealed then identity of the secret giver, causing much uproar,

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It be National Talk Like A Pirate Day today! Tell all ye mateys!  

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It's started....I'm in a Christmas mood. I have no idea why. Maybe it's the predicted rain this weekend, maybe it's the idea that I could get an actual Christmas tree this year, who knows....But I'm in a Christmasy mood!   Now, where did that Joni Mitchell CD go, I want to listen to River......  

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This blog is probably my favorite blog right now. It's excellently written, often funny, and always worthwhile. Here's the great post from today:   http://johncwright.livejournal.com/119334.html#cutid1    

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Hello all! My sister may be visiting me this Thanksgiving Day, and we are looking for someone to share it with! I'm perfectly happy to have the meal and my house and do the turkey, if someone else (or lots of people; heck, I'd be happy if a bunch of people wanted to show up) wants to join us and bring side dishes.   Let me know if you're interested!

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About a year ago, a lot of people from a certain Torrey class became obsessed with the Russian filmmaker Tarkovsky. I was not one of them; I have to date only seen one of his films (Andrei Rublyev, which I loved). However, on faith, I purchased the book he wrote about his films and art in general. It is fantastic. He has quite a few really excellent things to say. He maintains that art

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As most of my readers know, my dad took a vacation and came out to visit me: his account of it is here: http://tuliacoc.livejournal.com/   And he's right; we see the LA area through totally different eyes. Even after 7 years, I love it out here as much as ever. I love being able to hop on the freeway and see a show in LA. I love being able to hang out at Forest Lawn. I love being so near to

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Yesterday was not a great day for me. I was tired, and somewhat depressed (note: this is very normal for me, just annoying) and by the time I got to Bible study, I was not in any mood to be around large groups of people.   I was too shy to share my struggle in the time for prayer requests (maybe next week), but prayed anyway that God would get me out of myself (oh dang that sounds so weird

Joihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07757013732505715189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072518.post-85811705709348574152007-09-12T10:55:00.000-07:002007-09-12T10:58:21.823-07:00

*munches* liquor-filled chocolate cake......yummy.....   Good thing I brought the leftovers of the cake to work. If it stayed in my house I'd eat it all!

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Jersey Boys is going to the OC Performing Arts center, and the nosebleed seats are only about $30! Anyone want to go with me???   (what do you mean, you don't know who Frankie Valli is?  Everybody knows who Frankie Valli is!)

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...that you are a geek and your friends are all geeks when:   you go to the store to get fish to make fish and chips, and all three of you stand in front of the frozen fish freezer, reciting Lewis Carroll's "Lobster Quadrille":   "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail."There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.See how eagerly the lobsters and the

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..is exactly what it sounds like. It's yellow cake mix, with chocolate pudding mix stirred in, 1/4 cup each of Kahlua and vodka, and a glaze made of butter, sugar, and rum.   It's delicious.   (the recipe is in the Red Hat Society cookbook. The cookbook is almost worth it just for this cake alone)

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I'm sure you remember where you were. You may even remember the time. I do. My roommate's mother called her to tell her to turn on the TV: I rolled over sleepily, and looked at the clock. 7:32 am. We turn on the tv, just in time to see the second tower fall. No-one knew what was happening, only that it hadn't been an accident. My roommate calls her boyfriend: he is panicked because his

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I'd been expecting this for a while; I knew her health hadn't been good. But I'm still sad. It's hard to accept that someone who taught me so much about life is dead.   I think I picked up Wrinkle In Time when I was 10 or 11. I knew I'd never read anything like it before, and read straight through the whole Time series. Some of her books, I had to grow into (An Acceptable Time, and Many

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I colored my hair with henna a few months ago; I'm a big fan of henna body art, and had heart it does marvelous things for the hair. It did make my hair very shiny, along with intensifying the red tones in my hair.   Also, I wanted to cover up a few grey hairs that I had recently found.   Of course, the problem with coloring to cover up grey is obvious: you have to keep doing it regularly

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Sorry for not blogging much lately; my dad has been visiting, and I haven't gotten on-line much. Hope to be blogging vacation photos sometime soon! Although come to think of it, I think my dad has most of the pictures...   Anyhow. Dad got here on Wednesday, so we didn't do much that day: I took half the day off work, picked dad up at the airport, then stopped back by work to show him the

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Is she not the CUTEST BABY EVER??

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And the award for most disturbing, odd, over-the-top, hysterical cartoon goes to....Invader Zim!   I got the first disk from Netflix yesterday...so funny!   Miss Bitters: "Zim, there's a pigeon on your head. You have head pigeons. Go see the nurse."

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My wo-workers think I'm funny today, because I'm so fidgedty (how DO you spell that word?). Can't wait till 1, when I get off work and go pick up my dad from the airport, yay! Stupid time, doesn't go by fast enough....*fidget fidget*

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...little plot and world creation things keep popping into my head.   For instance, I've realized that my evil historian will have names for ages, but since he is so far in the future, his names for different ages will probably be different from ours. For instance, we call our current age the Information Age. He will refer to it, and several hundred years after now, as "The Age of Isolation

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...this song has been running through my head a lot lately. I like the song a lot, but it took a while for me to like it at all. I'm no huge fan of Michael W. Smith, but I do think his music of late is a lot better than the songs that built his career (for instance, the song Friends Are Friends Forever should be taken out and shot. And burned.)   But this one...this one is good...My

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...I'd be sorely tempted to make her middle name Mevrian.   The lady Mevrian is one of the most noble women I have ever encountered in the lovely land of fiction.

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About 2 years ago, I read a book that really impacted me: Wendy Shalit's controversial A Return to Modesty. Now, many people think that this book is why i started wearing long skirts and growing my hair out: Not true! I started growing my hair about 6 years ago, and started wearing my skirts a good 6 months before reading Shalit's book (which, incidentally, does not necessarily proscribe

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Odd things have been happening with me lately. I've been more nervous, more unsure about my relationships with others, less sure about when my company was actually desired and when it was merely tolerated, etc.   This made no sense to me. I haven't been like this since I was about 11 or 12. I've got a job I generally love, I'm in a great house, with a lovely private room, and a church that

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If you think the Mythbusters team is cooler than any set of actors in Hollywood.....you might be a geek.   If you can watch ads for new shows on the Science channel and think "OOh, I need to watch that!".....you might be a geek.   If you get excited over documentaries....you might be a geek.   If you can have an entire conversation consisting of nothing but movie quotes.....you might be a

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Alpine Vanilla non-fat frozen yogurt. It does a body good.

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So as many of you know, Wendy Shalit, author of Return to Modesty, is one of my very favorite authors. I read her blog, and sometimes comment on it. I was FINALLY able to locate a copy of her latest book, Girls Gone Mild, and settled down to read it on Saturday. Lo and behold, when I reached chapter 5, and began reading the quote at the top of the page, I realized it was mine! That just made

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Do these results suprise ANYbody?? :) No, I NEVER would have guessed that I'm a complete introvert!

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So I've been studying Wheelock's Latin lately. It's really tough; people who know me know that I am no great shakes at languages, though I do ok with the written word. Also, my last real language training (A Beka grammar) was probably 8 or 9 years ago; it takes me a while to remember how an indirect object functions in the sentence. So yeah, it's pretty tough for me.   It's also an amazing

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UpdateSo we found out what happened to the dog food...Last week, when our air conditioning went out, the heat must have caused the dog food to eplode. All over the inside of a cabinet. We're not sure when the maggots moved in.Oh someone please tell me it's Friday already...(on the plus side, at least my X-files DVD is coming from Netflix today. On to season 2!)

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There's been an odd icky smell in the office for the past few days. No-one could figure out what it was.   Well, today we found it.   Maggoty dog food.   So now we have the door to our call center closed, and we're all smearing scented lotion on our hands and faces to try to block the smell.   SIGH

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Co-worker: *setting her purse on her desk during her lunch break* I'm gonna leave this in here; the table's crowded, and I don't want to put it on the floor of the lunchroom in case there's a mouse.   Supervisor: What? There's a mouse in there??   Co-worker: I don't know, I just don't want to chance it.                       Later....   Me, to coworker: So, no mouse attacks during lunch?

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Most people who were in Torrey HATE this question. We have no list of things to recite, because the method and content of our education is not conducive to it. When a classical education works, it sinks in deeply, and becomes a part of the person, not just a compartment in his mind.   But, I finally found a decent answer to the question! I ran across a quote in an excellent fantasy book

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So, it finally stopped raining in the office. Turns out that someone had left the ancient air conditioner running overnight, and it froze up. We couldn’t turn it down, it kept blowing cool air, and letting water seep into the floor tiles. Oh, and the fridge and water cooler had leaks too. “Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.” So we shut off the power to the A/C, and set up as

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Still at a different computer at work. The ceiling is repaired, but we still can't turn on the a/c. So to face the heat today I wore a fancy tank top and jeans. I've never worn jeans or pants to work before. My co-workers were slightly shocked, and made me stand up so they could see. :) It was funny. How many other girls get such a reaction from wearing jeans? Hehehehe. Be a better

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    So the rain in our office made us turn off the a/c, and move the computers away from the rain. So, I don't have my work email, don't know for how long. Please send all emails to tinidril_of_perelandra@yahoo.com for now. Thank you! Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links.

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