I’ll blame my general fog on getting pretty much NO sleep from the time I woke Friday morning ’til I went to bed around 10:30 Sunday. Yep, that’s the reason. So—I didn’t think I would be going to GaFilk. I…
Growl!
The trustee for Katie’s trust fund just informed me that he doesn’t want to pay her health insurance premiums anymore because “it’s just wrong” for us to be covered under curiousmay9‘s benefits. Those are domestic partnership benefits, and the asshole…
Far Away Birthday
I’m not sure when she’ll see this, so I want to go ahead and wish veryty a very happy birthday tomorrow 🙂
Navel Gazing
How do I reconcile treating people with respect with enjoying snarking at them when I think it’s deserved? Damn. I’m not sure that I can. Do I have to give up the snark? It’s possible that I should always communicate…
Distrait
Another new word! Word of the Day for Tuesday, January 4, 2005 distrait \dis-TRAY\, adjective: Divided or withdrawn in attention, especially because of anxiety.
Antiques Magazine?
This is yet another publication that arrives in our home for inexplicable reasons. First person who says he or she wants it, I’ll switch the subscription address to go to you.
Any Latin Readers?
I found free online translation stuff, but the results aren’t very good. Could someone pretty please translate this quote from Catullus for me? Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior Edited to add…
Life Interrupted
Plugged into it all, we’re stressed to distraction Today, we can do more. And do more, faster. And do more, faster, from anywhere, all the time. You can work at home or the coffee shop or even at the beach.…
Another Loss
Shirley Chisholm is gone.
Skookum
I subscribe to several different “word of the day” lists. Some are technical, like the whatis.com list. One is from Buzzwhack. Several are just “normal” lists. Every time there’s actually a new-to-me word on one of them, I get all…