From "Following the Equator: A  Journey Around the World", as a quotation from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar". (I can't reread Pudd'nhead Wilson without doing serious damage to my teeth.) "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom th...

As you can see I did decide to prostitute my blog.  Might as well make a little $$ while I'm talking anyway.BlogHer requires their ad to be "above the fold" so it's now first in the right hand column, everything else is still there it's just lower down on the screen....

I'm not so egotistic as to believe that anyone would be swayed by something I wrote about racism. But since silence is inertia, I will say something. I'm a sheltered Midwestern woman who grew up in the sixties and seventies. I know racism is wrong. I've known that since I was a child. So is outing p...

Saw the Watchmen last night. Watchmen + Imax = LOVE. I love imax theaters, it's so crystal clear that I don't need to wear my glasses! But what I love more is the imax trailers. It was a packed house, and they had us vote how which movie should be shown next at this imax theater. I voted for Star Tr...

*** Regression Therapy...Last Sunday Andy brought over the new Streetfighter 4 video game. I am in still playing it a week later teaching my litle brother all my moves. It's a pretty awesome game, they don't stray away from the old Streetfighter formula (2-d side scrolling fighter, Hadoken, Ryuken) ...

Emergency trip to mall today, as my computer apparently did not feel the need to acknowledge the connection to my cable modem. I optimistically decided that the problem was the cable, so it's constantly falling out of the jack on the laptop and I've figured for a while that it's kinda broken but hav...

So, did any of you ever share this particular neurosis: when the phone rang in your home, even if (especially if?) you knew who was calling, you had to wait for the second or third ring before you picked it up, because you didn't want to look like you had nothing better to do than sit waiting by...

Today was one of those days.  We went to pick up Max's meds and I had to tell the vet to move Alex's file to the no longer here portion of our family file. We met our friend Deb - I FINALLY got my earrings that I didn't realize I had so much "invested in" back.  But...

Oh, man. Here is my stupid snow story, since everyone else has one: For the second Monday in a row and third Monday overall, my Western Civ class has been snowed out. We also missed a class because the professor was ill. We are FOUR classes behind in the kind of basic framework history class that ne...

I woke up yesterday morning to snow, and day three of the evil sinus headache of doom. Hold up, make that EVIL SINUS HEADACHE OF DOOM, yeah that sounds more like it. If you read it in the same voice as the big green headed WOO. Today the snow has departed the southlands and I'm at work, drinking the...