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December 24th, 2015
03:40 pm - Merry Christmas!
A callback from Christmases past.
--- Happy Holiday Happy Holidays May the merry bells keep ringing May your every wish come true May the calendar keep bringing Happy Holidays to you --- Oh, there's no place like home for the Holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you want to be happy in a million ways For the holidays, you can't beat home, sweet home ---
Christmas Time Is Here From A Charlie Brown Christmas Lyrics by Shawn Colvin Christmas time is here, Happiness and cheer, Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year. Snowflakes in the air, Carols everywhere, Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share. Sleigh bells in the air; Beauty every where; Yuletide by the fireside And joyful memories there. Christmas time is here; Families drawing near; Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year. ---
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December 24th, 2014
11:43 am - Merry Christmas!
A callback from Christmases past.
--- Happy Holiday Happy Holidays May the merry bells keep ringing May your every wish come true May the calendar keep bringing Happy Holidays to you --- Oh, there's no place like home for the Holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you want to be happy in a million ways For the holidays, you can't beat home, sweet home ---
Christmas Time Is Here From A Charlie Brown Christmas Lyrics by Shawn Colvin</small> Christmas time is here, Happiness and cheer, Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year. Snowflakes in the air, Carols everywhere, Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share. Sleigh bells in the air; Beauty every where; Yuletide by the fireside And joyful memories there. Christmas time is here; Families drawing near; Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year. ---
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December 24th, 2012
11:39 pm - Merry Christmas
A callback from Christmases past.
--- Happy Holiday Happy Holidays May the merry bells keep ringing May your every wish come true May the calendar keep bringing Happy Holidays to you --- Oh, there's no place like home for the Holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you want to be happy in a million ways For the holidays, you can't beat home, sweet home ---
Christmas Time Is Here From A Charlie Brown Christmas Lyrics by Shawn Colvin</small> Christmas time is here, Happiness and cheer, Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year. Snowflakes in the air, Carols everywhere, Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share. Sleigh bells in the air; Beauty every where; Yuletide by the fireside And joyful memories there. Christmas time is here; Families drawing near; Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year. ---
Be well, be merry, be warm and dry and safe.
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December 24th, 2011
02:22 pm - Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
A callback from Christmases past.
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Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
May the merry bells keep ringing
May your every wish come true
May the calendar keep bringing
Happy Holidays to you
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Oh, there's no place like home for the Holidays
'Cause no matter how far away you roam
If you want to be happy in a million ways
For the holidays, you can't beat home, sweet home
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Christmas Time Is Here
From A Charlie Brown Christmas
Lyrics by Shawn Colvin
Christmas time is here,
Happiness and cheer,
Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year.
Snowflakes in the air,
Carols everywhere,
Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share.
Sleigh bells in the air;
Beauty every where;
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there.
Christmas time is here;
Families drwing near;
Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year.
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Be well, be merry, be warm and dry and safe.
Current Mood: Merry
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May 22nd, 2011
04:58 pm - Writer's Block: From beyond
If you died and became a ghost and could only haunt one place, which place would you choose, and why?
OK, so I haven't written anything here in a good long while, and today the writer's block prompt caught my attention. And the idea of writing for a bit just seems correct right now.
If I were a ghost, where would I haunt? Good question.
My old dorm? Always full of action, and let's face it - of all of the dorms on Purdue's Campus, the Quad is the only one with enough character to actually look like it could be haunted. Well, maybe Duhme - but the Quad even more. Lots of ways to entertain myself there, and I'd get to remember being younger and stupider.
Or would it be BNT? See, if I get to choose, I'm not really sure. BNT's future isn't certain, and I'd rather anchor myself somewhere that had a greater chance of being around for a while. On the other hand, the place is incredibly important to me, as are the people.
Maybe our Camp at Patoka. Spent a lot of time there as a kid, and it was one of the places where I spent the most time with my Dad. It's peaceful during the week, the wildlife comes out to play, and it's beautiful during the warmer months. Of course, it's basically deserted during the winter, and that could be depressing.
I suppose on a strictly practical level it would also depend on what I was able to do as a ghost. If I could actually affect things, I'd help out around camp or school. If not, and I was just observing, I'm not sure whether I'd be happier or sadder seeing the things I built go on without me. And if I could affect things, would I have enough control over it to not just scare the living daylights out of people? I don't know that I want to do that by accident. For a few people, I must admit I would do it on purpose to teach a lesson here or there.
Hrm.
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February 24th, 2011
10:11 pm - Seasonal Poetry
The February rain pours down,
Like drops of cold despair.
It wrests the warmth and color,
Out from the very air.
It drains the life away from me,
And from most everything.
But this is the price we pay, my friends,
For the comfort and joys of Spring.
-RS
Current Mood: chilly
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November 25th, 2010
12:48 pm - Happy Thanksgiving
Howdy! Here's hoping you have a fantastic Thanksgiving Day, and a great long weekend!
As usual, mine's a little over-scheduled, but I've kept it to a minimum. Lots to do outside of the realm of the holiday, though.
I have accepted the sad truth that ToDo lists never get shorter, they're either achievable in one defined time period or they self-perpetuate forever and ever ad nauseum.
But today is all about eating too much, playing with the kids, visiting with the fam and talking naps. So, I'm off to start on those activities.
Be well and happy and stuffed.
Current Mood:  relaxed
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September 26th, 2010
08:03 pm - As usual, and NOT so as usual
So, it's been a long while since I wrote anything here, despite having said I would do it more often. Homework sucks, so I'll do it as the mood strikes. I have several things to report.
The beginning of the school year was hectic, a little rough, but good overall. The renovation ran behind as usual. My office door was hung the first day of school. The glass wasn't put in the window until a week later, and the lock core a few days after that. Of course, had the lock been installed before the window, the irony meter would have exploded.
Things are different this year. Of course, we expect to evolve over the course of our first few years of being open, but this year we lost 4 of our VERY small faculty, some due to the state of the Ed budget in Indiana, some who took the opportunity to move on. All of the new faculty were involuntary transfers, so School Culture has suffered some. Add to that a difficult Freshman class, and things are a little wonky right now. There's a lot of good stuff going on, students banding together to effect change, etc, and my year has been pretty decent. If I do say so myself, without me taking on some planning and such that nobody else was willing to do, we'd have been totally scrod. I rock. Moving along.
Made attempt #1 to discontinue the Lexapro over the summer. It didn't go well - the resulting insomnia was crippling, especially since it was right before the NTN conference in Chicago. The conference is fast-paced and way too important to stumble through, so I went back on the Lexapro. Next time, I'll have a better idea what to expect, and can manage the scale-down of dosages differently. Irritating, as I'd like to be done with it, but bandages often take skin with them when they're removed, right?
In other news, I'm moving. Not leaving Bloomington, just moving residences. It's a great house just north of the IU Stadium, owned by friends. It needs a bunch of work done to it, so they're having a contractor come in between  gollumgollum's moving out and me moving in. I'm also assisting them with a long-needed purge of old stuff from the house. That'll include furniture and a whole mess of other things. There's lots of parking and plenty of room for people to hang out or stay. And, much to dividedbyzero's relief, there will finally be a sufficiently large TV in the living room (snob!).
Lots of stuff to do, it will be occupying a lot of my "free" (HA!) time. I'm also purging my own stuff and getting ready for the move. Fortunately, I have the flexibility of moving over time rather than having to do it all in one weekend. So I can do a room at a time, just transferring things rather than having to pack everything at once. MUCH relief in that. Much.
There's also just relief in moving. I don't like the management company of the local place, the rent is going up, and the area is going downhill. My car was broken into last year and the GPS stolen, and I filled out a police report on a shots fired incident in the next complex over. I hate to be That Guy, but there's a lot of Section 8 housing over there, and it shows. So I'll be glad to move. The new place isn't any farther from BNT, just different traffic patterns to deal with, so that's cool.
And now for a difficult admission, one which may cost me my Y chromosome: I am buying curtains and such. I know, I know, I'm a guy, but honestly - the sun pours in through the windows behind where the TV will go, and frankly I don't like staring out into Utter Blackness at night. So, curtains it is. I am NOT, however, going to tolerate certain knick-knacky type things, such as little glass boxes with no purpose. I'm looking at you, sexywitch when I say that - I can see the glimmer in your eye as you consider seeding the place with such paraphernalia. The Christmas Box is one thing - but else-things, no. No. Way.
And now, time to go. It's been a busy weekend, and I am tired. And I still need to do a load of laundry.
Rapture.
Current Mood: accomplished
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April 19th, 2010
04:01 pm - A reading from the book of Porcine
And on the morning of the 7th Day, God was hungry from all of his efforts. "Let there be Bacon" said The Lord, and thus was created Breakfast.
Satan, having sensed the brilliance of this, God's latest creation, could not stand idly by, and plotted to ruin Bacon for one and all.
And Satan said "Let there be coyotewatches."
God, seeing Satan's work and knowing that it would indeed spell the end of any ordinary food, was glad unto himself that he had created Bacon such that even ruined, it was still pretty damned awesome.
(Limited audience, don't sweat it if you don't get it.)
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03:50 pm - Hooray!
For stuff and things. It's been a good day, and for that I'm very grateful to the Universe.
Current Mood: chipper
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