May 2012
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I’ve been practicing translating and reading...
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My cat has been sick for several weeks, and doesn’t appear to be getting any better. Normally an independent cat, he now follows my mom and I around, everywhere, like he’s velcroed to us. Like he needs us, and there is not much we can do to cure him. He’s an old cat, somewhere around 11 or 12 years old, with a tendency to become constipated. I’ve taken him to the vet, but...
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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is...”
– T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
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What is this wonderful, insane place?
Mom thought that today wouldn’t be busy.
HA. HA. HA.
Right after lunch, we were swamped - mainly with my family.
Two of my cousins appeared to help move two air conditioners out of the basement and into our grandma’s house. With that job done, I ran down to my house to pick up a card for two of my cousins who graduated from Purdue this spring. The boys said goodbye, and the...
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“Do You Want John Quincy Adams Who Can Write, or Andrew Jackson Who Can Fight?”
– Campaign slogan used during the presidential campaign of 1828, promoting John Quincy Adams as the more educated, cultured candidate compared to the boorish brawler, Andrew Jackson. It was a rematch of the election of 1824, but this time Jackson prevailed. (via retrocampaigns)
JQA all the way, baby.
“And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and...”
– New interview with Mitt Romney (via climateadaptation)
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“All the documents of “homesteaders” stealing land from Native Americans is...”
– We got a range of reactions to our recent series on the Homestead Act’s 150th anniversary - from angry to enthusiastic to, well, bummed out.
The Homestead Act is a difficult document. When we think of homesteaders, most of us probably think of “Little House on the Prairie” and not the Trail of...
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“And then there is North Dakota, which is sheer grandeur, but you have to get off...”
– Garrison talks about where in America he gets “carried away” in a recent Q&A in the New York Times (via prairiehomecompanion)
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In other news, a few days ago, mother decided to let me know that a young fellow at the greenhouse seemed “interested” in me, and that she needed to introduce us the next time he comes, because “he seems kind of shy.”
OH NO.
Is this something that happens when daughters who have never had a boyfriend turn twenty years old? Mothers start scouting out fellows for them?
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I dreamed last night that I was in a competition to shoot arrows at Cher.
Not with Cher.
At Cher.
And I’ve never even extensively watched Cher before in my life.
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WHAT IS MY BRAIN ANYMORE?
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My first semi-day off from an insane week of the greenhouse business and what kind of a day do I get? Sunshine so broiling hot that I could only manage an hour pulling weeds in a flower bed before crawling back to a shady oak tree.
Now I get to take a shower up here at Gram’s house (because our hot water heater died about a month ago and the well-water might as well have icicles in it),...
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Strange People
There is a fellow who has been coming to the greenhouse since before I was born, yet he has never ever said a word to me all my life.
Until tonight.
Either because I am now magically 20 years old and therefore an intelligent human being and worth his time, or today was just one of his good days, he decided now was the time to look up, smile, and ask how I’m doing.
That’s all he...
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spacecricket asked: O_O I just now realized you deactivated your facebook! I know you discussed doing it a bit before, but can you talk about it some more, and about how it's making you feel?
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