This is far more interesting than I had initially expected it to be: Movie Timeline. What is movies were true? What would the timeline of the past and future look like?

This is amusing. In a very, very strange way.

Also took me a minute to get, the first time I looked at it.

But it’s also strange. So don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Andy send me a link to Nemester.

You can’t sign up yet, but when you can, all things considered, I probably should. Just to keep track, you know.

Good Luck Gina!

It’s been a tough 5 1/2 years, but we’ve worked hard and managed somehow.

So in closing, one of my favorite exchanges:

We were explaining to a new graduate assistant how, because of the layout of the lab, we spent more time with each other than we did with our husbands.

Gina: We spend so much time together…
Michelle: …we even finish each others sentences.
Gina: It’s like being married…
Michelle: …only without the sex.
Gina: It’s exactly like being married.

So I’m not just losing a co-worker, I’m losing a wife.

Dear Eliot Spitzer,

Fuck you.

Appalachia is not an insult. It’s my home.

I never did get around to posting pictures of my bookshelf. Mostly because that would involve a LOT of pictures, since I have a lot of books.

So for your amusement, here’s my computer desk at home. Just to give you a tiny peek into my life. The part off to the left where the light is shining? That’s the table where I continually lose the battle of “keeping clean.” However. since you can’t see it, then for all intents and purposes, it is clean. Ha!
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Me: I’ve often thought that if someone tied me up…
Gina: WHAT?!
Me: …that I’d be mute. Because I talk with my hands so much.
Gina: That’s not where I thought you were going with that.

The Farthest Shore (1972) Ursula K. Le Guin

The final book in The Earthsea Trilogy, as A Wizard of Earthsea tells of the start of Ged’s life as a wizard, The Farthest Shore closes his adventures.

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I just decided that the song most UNlike my life right now?

Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”

If only I could get the song out of my head, where it’s acting like it wants to be a soundtrack to things that aren’t happening to me.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) Ursula K. Le Guin

Strangely enough, as much fantasy as I read, I’d never gotten around to reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy. I’ve had the books for a couple of years, but for one reason or another, never got around to reading them. It’s a short book, my copy has only 183 pages (same for the reprint I just looked up), so I kept putting off reading it until a time when I needed a short book to read. Well, that time seems to be now.

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The Tombs of Atuan (1970) Ursula K. Le Guin

The second book in the Earthsea Trilogy, The Tombs of Atuan tells the story of Tenar, who becomes Arha, the Eaten One, and High Priestess of the Nameless Ones. Tenar is taken from her home at the age of five becuase she is the reincarnation of Arha. The tombs beneath the city are her realm and her responsibility.

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And this? Made me laugh out loud.

Spring is on the horizon, so you know what that means!

Flower pr0n!

The heather and crocuses are blooming right now, but I haven’t gotten a picture of the crocuses (and now probably won’t). But I got two nice pictures of the heather. What I like best about these pictures is they look better than the heather does as an whole plant.

The heather has just limped along for the past four years, but it’s still there, and it’s blooming, so I suppose I don’t have much call for complaint.

Okay, are you prepared to be jealous?
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