“Sorry for freaking out,” he said. “You didn’t freak out,” I told him. “You had an emotional moment. That’s okay.” “I guess so.” “I have them all the time. The strangest things just set me off.” “Yeah,” he said. “Sometimes, I’m just sitting and thinking and suddenly, I’m just a wreck.” “Happens to me, too,”…
(from The New York Times) Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the grants. “There is no explanation for it being left off…
My magical alter ego, lordstrange, has something to say about the “demotion” of Pluto.You can read about it here.
Check it out. Of course, this puts a crimp in all those astrological charts. Not that a whole host of crimps were already there. This just adds one. The symbolic demoting of Pluto will be discussed later today on lordstrange. PS Edit: I like the over-reaction. I think it puts a proper focus on the…
The door opens and she’s standing on the other side of it, looking like she just stepped off an album cover. “My kitchen light is burned out,” she tells me. “Can you fix it?” I tell her I can fix it, but it’ll take a minute. I have to get the correct lights from storage.…
(from m-w.com)Main Entry: cel·i·ba·cy Pronunciation: ‘se-l&-b&-sE Function: noun 1 : the state of not being married2 a : abstention from sexual intercourse b : abstention by vow from marriage ___ I’ve gotten more than a few questions about this, so here’s the explanation. My current activities include: Apartment Manager Writing a second novel Writing a…
She said, “Oo la la!” when she saw me. She told me to sit down in the chair. She washed it, combed it out and then asked me, “What do you want?” I said, “To get rid of it.” So, she started cutting. The first cut, by my request, was all my hair pulled back…