Quoting from this site: BALTIMORE – For the 57th straight year, a mystery man paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer’s grave to mark his birthday. Some of the 25 spectators drawn to a tiny, locked graveyard in downtown Baltimore for the ceremony climbed over […]
Forget the damn dog, beware of owner… I don’t know why I feel like biting everyone today. Not that I’m apologizing for it. If I damn well feel like snarling at every single person to cross my path, I have that right. I just don’t know why I feel that way. It can’t only be
I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. The people, the stuff, the money, the people… And shopping with a 7yo in tow! Who isn’t getting anything! Eeek! But I did it. I have friends who think Christmas should be celebrated, and gift certificates don’t cut it. So I went, and shopped, all flipping
Hope got sent home from school again today. She ran away from the assistant principal when she was supposed to be wiping tables for the trouble she got in yesterday, and hid in the bathroom and had to be hunted down. So I had her for the last four hours I was at work. I
From here, except the parts which are mine, and I think they’re pretty obvious.Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2005 Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2005 was: integrity Hmm. Wonder why? 1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY 2 : an
Isn’t it lovely? They’re calling for an investigation of the illegal–yes, illegal, just ’cause the President says so, doesn’t make it so, this is NOT a dictatorship no matter what King George would have you believe–spying on US citizens. Who is “they?” Well, them. You know. People. And who are they calling? Hmm. Haven’t heard
That’s how many kids I have to withdraw because they are moving or going to charter schools over the winter break. Seventeen children starting over in a new school halfway through the year. I hope, anyway. At least three, I wonder if they will go to another school at all. Let’s see. We’ve got one