I just had to go for a walk to check out the trees. Autumn sure announced itself with pomp, and announced it very early this year. We almost had a frost a couple weeks ago, so that must have pushed the ignition button. It has been so cloudy lately but I think that makes the colors pop more. Unfortunately, the camera produced a lot of drab pictures. I played around with settings and found (once I Full story...
Monday is a lousy day to have a bird day so we celebrated yesterday with friends. I tried a new cocktail with gin and Hypnotic which very bizarrely comes out tasting like a margarita.
I was confronted by this yesterday at one of the places I work. I'll translate for those who are clueless:
To the person who urinates on the floor
I'm not judging, but if it's impossible for you to urinate standing up without getting it all over the floor, and therefore making everyone else perform gymnastics in order to urinate without stepping in it, not to mention the odor that it causes,
Here's a picture taken long ago by a friend of a friend that we befriended on a trip to California. He later sent us a blow up of this shot.
I've been having a lively discussion with a blogger this week over ideology. He's a proud gay republican, and me, well we all know how flamingly liberal I am.
I felt the terrible tickle yesterday morning. Cold sore! I can't help but think this is somehow linked to the flu shot I got last week.
I'm taking a break from politics. Really, it's not good for me. Why practice having hostile feelings? It always comes back to my favorite adage: Holding on to resentment is like your eating rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
I was teaching a class this week in front of some blue collar workers. They were joking around after Obama had won the presidency and started talking about how the White house needs to change its name to the black house, ha ha ha, and that chicken and watermelon would be the new cafeteria staples.
I guess since it's easier to hide my minority traits, I shouldn't equate our struggle for civil rights to that of African Americans.
How is it that religious institutions are permitted to donate, not to mention campaign, for issues and candidates in US elections and maintain their tax-exempt status? What ever happened to separation of church and state? I'll bet those donations to Prop 8 in California would have been much lower had there been a chance the churches would lose their non-profit status.
Never pleasure without pain, right? I'm happy to see that America proved me wrong and voted a black man for president.
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