A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
It's Wednesday Already???
The time is flying by--far far too quickly. For the most part, I'm relaxed, rested, and happy. The only exceptions to those are when I have to talk to him on the phone. *SIGH!*
You guys were right. I was trying to make him getting set up in Kansas as easy as possible, and he's cleaned me out and thrown me into overdraft twice in two weeks. I can't pay any bills...well, I have some money that he has no access to that isn't part of my escape fund, thankfully, but I can't pay the rent. At least I can keep the utilities on until I leave. In the meantime, he's called to ask for more money several times--and he borrowed $400 from Nikki and spent it in a fucking day, for god's sake!!!!! He swears when he gets his check (should be today or tomorrow), he'll send it back to her. He better. If he doesn't, I will find a way to make him pay.
As for the kids, I spoke with all three today, so I'm fairly certain they're all alive and reasonably healthy or else one of them was clever enough to make a tape of whichever one is missing to play for me over the phone. (I'm almost certain that even if they are that clever, they don't have the resources....*slightly worried*.)
Given those real life intrusions, I'm not doing too badly. The only times I've had a headache or been sick to my stomach have been after speaking with him and/or thinking about how I'm going to cover what he's spent. Still, considering it's usually a daily thing for me, sick only a couple of times over the past 5 days is quite nice. Jerry has been wonderful to me, making sure I de-stress and relax in every way possible (He even got up out of bed to get rid of the menacing spider that was laying in wait to attack me--I saw it dash over to the laundry room and lurk near the hallway for me!!--without getting annoyed at me for yelping at the sight of the giant mutant creepy thing and waking him up). His kids (I've met 2 of the 3) are great--funny, sharp, fun. All in all, a wonderful vacation in spite of any Ferg-related intrusions.
Mmmmmmmmm....getting my back rubbed, so I'm off....
5:30 PM
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