They evolved. They rebelled.
The other day, for reasons too irrelevant to relate, I had to look through a bunch of LiveJournal mood sets. Tonight I feel extremely angry and remembered all those tiny icons for random emotions/adjectives like “exanimate,” “bouncy,” and “nostalgic.” The memory inspired a Google search for “current mood pissed off,” and that is […]
Today’s post is dedicated to Jessica.
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured […]
My sister sent me an email. The subject line read “Please to enjoy.” The email contained a link to this:
I suggest watching the full three minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
Tonight I should have cleaned my apartment. Instead I spent a couple hours putting together the following mp3 Christmas mix. It starts out a little melancholy, largely because December often puts me in a wistful and pensive mood. The mix gets peppier as it goes along. There’s Motown! And remixes! […]
Today the temperature reached 72 degrees. On December 10th. I blame the Heat Miser and his “imp-like minions.” Not global warming. No sir.
At this point, it seems rather clichéd to feel depressed at Christmas but on the other hand, cliché, true, you know what they say. And it’s hard for me to break out of the alone at Christmas stereotype when one of my favorite Christmas songs is “River” by Joni Mitchell.
I prefer Sarah McLachlan’s version […]
For me, the Christmas season officially begins after I have watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. This year I watched it with the nieces three on Thanksgiving, after dinner but before pie. The nieces had not seen the television special* before and thus watched it in almost total silence. My sister and I […]
