biteythevampire

fun fun fun

2009-01-28T03:52:05Z

The first Seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year (2009).
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a mix CD. It may be a poem. I may draw or paint something. I might bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!

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Also, snow day tomorrow! No work! yay!

An Ignored Perspective on Late Term Abortions

2008-07-14T05:23:59Z

Not sharing this woman's experience, I admit that a situation like hers has never crossed my mind while thinking about legislation regarding abortion. Clearly, and most unfortunately, it hasn't crossed the minds of anyone in charge of that legislation, either.
Based on the title, which I am sure is all most people know about the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban" it seems like a good idea, doesn't it? Of course no one in their right mind would condone the murder of a baby who is practically being born normally, right? That's really what it sounds like the ban is referring to, however when we read stories like Lynda Waddington's we realize how seriously out of the loop most people are on this important issue. Please read her article in the above link, not only is it moving, but it will help us to become more informed about issues that we might think we know enough about. We cannot expect any laws restricting abortion to benefit anyone in any way if they continue to be proposed and passed without knowledge of, or consideration for, the many ways that different women are significantly affected. As we can see from this article, Barack Obama is not one bit more enlightened on the topic than anyone we would expect that from...

I didn't write this song...

2008-01-31T05:53:48Z

but I COULD have <3

There’s somethin’ about his kiss
That sets my heart aglow
And when he holds me
Gosh, I know

I’m the luckiest girl
In this whole wide world
Gee, what a guy

And when he talks to me
Soft and sweet
Or when he holds my hand
As we walk down the street

I’m the luckiest girl
In this whole wide world
Gee, what a guy

I knew from the moment I met him
That he was the guy for me
His tender smile, his warm caress
Opened my eye to see

Gee, what a guy I’ve got
I love him so
The things he does for me
Makes me know

I’m the luckiest girl
In this whole wide world
Gee, what a guy

I said my, oh my, oh my
Gee, what a guy

political quiz

2008-01-17T01:05:09Z

79% Hillary Clinton
78% Chris Dodd
78% John Edwards
78% Barack Obama
76% Bill Richardson
74% Joe Biden
70% Dennis Kucinich
68% Mike Gravel
54% Rudy Giuliani
47% John McCain
37% Mike Huckabee
36% Mitt Romney
29% Tom Tancredo
26% Fred Thompson
22% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

aww sorry Mike, look who ended up at the bottom...

Book meme from Librarything that I took from Meghan :)

2007-10-03T04:26:22Z

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
~~The Odyssey~~
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma (reading it now, sorta)
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations
American gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
~~The Canterbury tales~~
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Par
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela's ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The scarlet letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas
The confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger abbey
The catcher in the rye
On the road
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers

PS- all my italicised ones I just DIDN'T finish, not couldn't. I plan to eventually.

Fist City!

2007-06-24T15:01:04Z

I love Loretta!

(No, not dedicated to anyone, just a great song by an amazing singer!)

Truly appalling and saddening, what is British education coming to?

2007-06-06T16:28:19Z

I love England more than any place on earth, but they need to do something FAST about this. Almost makes me want to become a history teacher over there. When the line from political correctness to utter illogical stupidity is crossed, it's beyond unacceptable, it's dangerous. What a mess they've gotten into.

From the Telegraph

testing

2007-05-19T01:23:26Z

is this working?

Uhmmmm....

2007-05-18T10:19:15Z

How do you do an "LJ cut"?

someone please explain.... or show me where I can find out myself....

Thanks!