to Stan Rogers tonight. Balm for the soul. A Matter of Heart lyrics and music by Stan Rogers found on: From Coffee House To Concert Hall We live in fear of no one to love us Of feeling like an empty hole With no kind heart or strengthening hand To light the dark and secret…

I may not be as multiple as Slipperperson, but if I could be Dorothy Parker, I’d gladly give up Robert Frost and only give up Sylvia Plath with just a little tug of dismay Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz – brought to you out of boredom and pretention! Take the Which Poet are…

If anyone really, really, really wants to see my initial rant on this from last Friday, they can go to The Meaning of Words, which should open up in a separate window if I coded that correctly. Anyhow, a few more disjointed musing. A word of warning: do not presume by reading this that you…

The Adolescent Cat from Hell is really beginning to look more cat than kitten. She still acts all kitten though. She hasn’t forgotten how to play fetch yet (though I know she will grow out of it eventually), she still bats her rag-taggle furry mice throughout the apartment, and she still thinks she can sit…

D’uh? I chose my favorite color as grass green, my favorite container was a keg, and I noted that caffeine is necessary, and I get this?: Made by many not-so-well-known companies you really don’t get the praise or popularity you deserve. Fruit, refreshing, and orange. Now if you weren’t caffeine-free I might drink more of…

Thanks to MoonriddenGirl for this test. I wasn’t really sure where it was going when I answered the questions, but was amused and a tad amazed when I got the answer, since it did come up with someone I admire, though philosophically it’s not a great match. Anyhow, this is a ROLE MODEL PROFILER that…

Since my early twenties, I have been prey to a peculiar variety of migraine. Called “acephalgic migraines”, they involve no pain whatsoever, but result in diminished vision for a period of twenty minutes. Rarely, they can render me effectively blind for a short period of time, but more often they simply constrict the field of…

At least that’s one thing that went right today. Doesn’t exactly balance the scales with what went wrong, but I’ll take my victories where I can.

Wonderful. Now I have my boss pissed at me. As soon as I got off the phone with National Geographic, I called my boss’s office. He was in a meeting. No big surprise. He’s always in meetings. Better him than me. I told his secretary what was up, and said I’d wait till he was…

I just had what had to be the weirdest phone call I’ve ever gotten professionally. A representative from National Geographic called to ask if they could film Temple Grandin when she visited our company this coming Monday. They are doing a special on autism, and are profiling her as an example of a successful autistic…