Oh yeah. Girl Scouts. When the “round up” was held last month, they said they needed someone to be the secondary leader “on paper only” for G’s troop. I agreed. Well, the primary leader seems to have skipped town or…
Book Joy
Friday Fiver – Names
1. What does your first name mean? CYNTHIA f English Pronounced: SIN-thee-a Means “woman of Kynthos” in Greek. Cynthia was an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, given because Kynthos was the mountain on Delos on which she and…
Crash
I have to wonder if I’m getting hypoglycemic or something. I’m really bad about forgetting to eat, and have had two horrible headaches in the last few days due to going too long (but not an unusual amount of time…
Hematite
Just General Stuff
School Uniforms—and Not
Hey shadesong—this was in my e-mail this morning and I thought of Elayna’s school. ============================ SCHOOL UNIFORMS ON THE WAY OUT In 1994, Long Beach, Calif., was the first big-city public school district to adopt uniforms. When school crime rates…
Dialects
Interesting—http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html I’m rather annoyed that the maps are offline at the moment, though.
Bad Influences!
To every one of you posting Dork Tower links: You are evil. You are completely ruining all possibility of whatever productivity I could have managed despite having Jackson around and the piano seducing me.
Love
Swiped from freyjaw: “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything…