Oct 29 2009
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My new niece (Syd’s daughter) is Cthulhu. Your sanity is futile. Prepare for the Apocalypse.
May 12 2009
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The Worst Phishing Expedition Ever
House Of The Senate House
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Feb 27 2009
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I be a "published" artist.
I promise I won’t drop my husband to run of with some heroine addict actor…
Check out the picture… though, seriously, I think it’s nothing special at all.
<You’ve been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:
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:: Schmap London Sixth Edition: Photo Inclusion
Hi Kathleen,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released sixth
edition of our Schmap London Guide:
Old Royal Naval College
http://www.schmap.com/london/sights_outandabout/p=4817/i=4817_40.jpg
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link
will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version
of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see
exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the
iPhone version of our guide at:
Old Royal Naval College
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=london&sid=sights_outandabout&p=4817&i=4817_40
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check
out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap
London Guide, complete with your published photo:
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Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - please
enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides>
Jan 03 2009
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… So, I’d like to learn to knit, and found this a bit silly, but informative for anyone else who’d like to learn as well.
Dec 23 2008
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My favorite place.
Ok.. so I went to London two summers ago, and fell in love with the city. There was this one place by the Queen’s Walk along the Thames where I felt absolutely and completely… blissfully content… I can’t explain it. There is no turn of phrase… or hackneyed amalgamation of words or syllables to give that feeling justice… without making you think that I’m some melodramatic, certifiably insane, wacko nutter. I wanted so desperately to take a picture of it so I could have something in return for the little bit of me that stayed right there… but my shutter button had popped off outside of 10 Downing St, so Tony Blair got my shutter button, and I got the memory.
Anyway… when I got the chance to go back with E and G, I knew… if it was the last thing I did (and it just about was) I was going to go back there and try to recapture that place. It took me a couple of hours before the sidewalks were clear. It was a chilly, schizoid afternoon where the clouds would look like salvation from on high one moment, and judgment and doom the next. And although I missed the Doctor Who museum, and meeting Kenneth EFFING Branagh… I took some photos that I don’t hate.
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I hope that snazzy link for “Return to Me” worked. If not, then please listen to my plug for Glen Philips’ new album. Glen Philips’ Reveals the Secrets of the New Explorers which is an awesome departure from his norm. He continues to impress me with his musical diversity and poignancy. Listen to him and throw lots of money his way so he can continue making worthwhile music and support his awesome family.
Sep 30 2008
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The Bailout... or What Is and What Can Never Be.
Well, I’ve not professed to be a staunch Republican since I was 19 or 20—blame it on young idealism—but I figure we can’t have it both ways. We can’t laud ourselves as being a capitalistic society… and have everything backed by the government. We’re either capitalists… or we’re not, and we need to accept the responsibility of our self-definition in either case.
However, my opinion may not be a valid one; I am an English teacher and not an economist. Unlike my future-phobic husband, I DO have money in 401 K’s and various other stock market based programs, but I’ve got time (20-30+ years) to make up the slack here. But that’s not the only effect of the situation. Banks aren’t loaning money to other banks, banks aren’t granting short term loans to businesses, and the commercial paper system is at a virtual standstill, effecting just about anything financial.
… And that could be a ginormous trickle down…
Finally, my last concern, and I don’t really want this to be from my words to true action, yet I post this here because I hope, that like a wish, speaking it aloud will keep it from reality. The situation that troubles me most here is… as I was discussing with the Social Studies teacher a few minutes ago… this would be the absolute PERFECT opportunity for any Anti-USA groups to launch an assault. Financial chaos, political chaos, and the teeniest bit of civil unrest… We just might tumble like a Jenga tower. With that vision in mind, let’s each of us hope that taking off our shoes at the airport does the trick.
Sep 27 2008
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Palin's Words Raise Red Flags
I’m sure that this columnist is one of the demon-liberal-God-hating writers from The New York Times that Senator McCain and his camp were talking about. I’m sure that just about anyone who does research on him will find he more than likely doesn’t support McCain. I don’t really know… nor do I actually care… because his political leanings aren’t the point. He brings up some very salient points which I feel are important to consider regardless of party.
I was, and continue to be, torn on my views about Palin.
When I first saw her, I was emotionally effervescent for the simplest reason that the VP candidate was a woman. I am old enough to vaguely remember the 1984 election and Mondale and Ferraro running against Daddy Reagan. At that time, the entirety of my mother’s side of the family (who I spent the most time with) were Republicans, and Reagan was like a big, squishy, TV grampa. I’m not sure if I realized how important… how precedent-setting that was. Actually, I’m sure I didn’t grasp the full scope, but it did make an impression on me (enough that though I was 6 year old at the time, I remembered readily the name of the Vice Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party of 1984, but not the politician who chose her.)
But at the same time, I was unsure of Palin. The liberal in me… the one who recognizes that though, in my personal decisions, I am conservative, I do not have the right to force what is right for me on the decisions of every citizen of the United States… was uneasy about her. The internal voice, who cannot justify damaging the delicate ecosystem of the arctic (which immediately effects the ecosystems of the entire world) and relegating the polar bear and the beluga wale to exhibits in zoos so we can save a few dollars at the gas pump and put off the search for viable fuel alternatives for another few years, warned me to be wary. The part of me who feels that my friends Mike and Alan getting married today somewhere in Los Angeles, California enhances the sanctity of my marriage to Doug, not detracts from it cannot support her.
However, this columnist brings up one of the most important jobs of the vice president- the seriousness of which I’ve forgotten in my fortunate years of not having to experience it- Palin will run the country in the event that McCain… already fairly old and haggard from the life exposed to violence and war that he has lived… should become unable to lead… and she’s having a hard time dealing with the hard-hitting questions of Katie effin’ Couric. How does she expect us to believe she’s acquired elite foreign diplomacy skills with Russia due to a maritime border and trade agreements set up long before she was in office if she can’t handle the effin EVENING NEWS!
But this also makes me wonder… if she weren’t a woman, would we be concerned at all? If she weren’t being hidden away and avoiding interviews with prestigious news institutions… would we question her abilities? Would we even feel bad about questioning her qualifications?
It seemed no one felt bad about questioning Obama’s inexperience. It’s the major crux of the McCain campaign- “I’ve got 42,783 years of experience on Capital Hill, with war and with foreign leaders… Barack’s got jack, and he won’t be able to handle it.” So why then does he get a running mate who is less experienced than Obama. At least Obama has met some of these foreign leaders.
I think I’ve gotten to the saturation point with this upcoming (all too near) election. My loving husband may have seen my Obama ‘08 stickers and assumed that I had my mind made up… but I try not to close my mind to any information or choice available. Yes, I avoid a lot of the political debates and discussion because I feel for the most part, it’s too rehearsed and contains too much spin, but I can see some of the strategies at work… and I know what qualities I’d like to see in a leader… I’ve just not seen those qualities manifested in a set of candidates yet.
Sep 01 2008
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Hurricane Prep?
Q and I aren’t really doing much hurricane prep (other than filling up the cars with gas, eating the food that’s in our freezer, making sure we have non-perishables, and bringing in plants/patio furniture). We already have batteries, flashlights, and a radio. Loss of water isn’t really a problem here in BR. There’s not really much we can do. We thought about sandbags, but I don’t think flooding is going to be too much of an issue for us, although the fire stations are giving out free sand and sandbags now. We actually even went to Home Depot last night to get a couple drawers and cabinet doors to finish our kitchen cabinet project. We looked like a couple of idiots in there (seriously, we were the only people in the store that weren’t purchasing a $700.00 generator and/or gas cans [people were lining up like they were giving them away; it was insane]). This morning, I went to fill up my car again, just in case, and everyone else at the gas station had at least 4 gas cans to fill (presumably for their generators). We don’t have a generator because I don’t think it’s really necessary. We don’t have a baby, or tons of things that have to continue running (that, and having numerous containers of gasoline would make me nervous). We have a coleman grill and propane, which we can use to cook if necessary. Anyway, I don’t really have a point to all this, other than that I simultaneously do and do not feel like a slacker.
The problem is that I am anxious, and I am trying to think of things I can do, or how I can prepare for the unknown. I am worried about New Orleans, Donaldsonville, Houma, Morgan City…(this list goes on and on), and all of the people I know and love in those places (and the people I don’t).
Anyway, I will stop talking about it now. Please keep our state in your thoughts and prayers.
I reposted this because I identify with it. How else am I supposed to feel when everyone around is running around in a panic, swooping up every possible necessity within reach and I am not. I’m trying, for the sake of my husband who assures me that by the time it gets anywhere near BR, Gustav will be a little bit of wind and a bunch of rain, to not fall prey to the panic, but it’s so difficult with the aforementioned public craziness and television (not just the Weather Channel, but CNN and FOX News) constantly airing segments on Gustav, evacuation, possible worst-case scenarios, and Jindal going on and on about how if you’re down here, you better get out… NOW! I went to Albertson’s to pick up some soda for Doug… and seriously… I was in line for over an hour. There were customers with carts full of cans, containers of water, packages of batteries… there were no flashlights to be had (“not for love nor money”… I miss you Oscar.)
So, either everyone else is wrong, and they fed into the sensationalism… or, we’re wrong, and we’re going to be very very sorry.
