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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Thursday, March 03, 2005
Time Flies When You Toss the Clock Across the Room...
I just realized I haven't updated since Feb 3rd. Oh, I tried one other time to talk about my new job (I'm "underemployed", as they term it, as a clerk in a convenience store--a stupid job, but someone overeducated and unemployed has to do it), but blogger completely lost my entry and I was too pissed off to retype it. I'm mostly working 3rd shift and I'm now getting full-time hours, so I'm working, typically, Mon-Fri, 10pm-6am. My poor hands are all torn up because all of the cleaning on 3rd shift keeps them wet and the weather has been so bitterly cold lately. Still, it's a job and thank goodness for that!
Just got my "Woohoo! I'm getting divorced as soon as I can find time to go to the pro-bono office" tattoo. It's on my right shoulder and it's Chinese characters in black. Since Chinese is traditionally read right to left, top to bottom, I have the character for "strength" at the bottom, "rebirth/new life" in the middle, and "love" at the top. I'm hoping to have a small phoenix done next to it, to go along with the "rising from the ashes to become stronger, more powerful, and hopefully wiser" theme of my life.
Not a long entry, but I didn't want anyone thinking I'd been shanghai'ed or had developed amnesia or something.
5:22 PM
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