huh.



(canadian furry dudes, she likes em)

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: You'll help a loved one get habits under control and will be helped yourself in the process. TAURUS: People want to work for you. Let your loved ones know how they can help you meet your goals. GEMINI: Your bright and sunny attitude is so attractive to everyone around. CANCER: You'll be given the star treatment because you carry yourself in a way that radiates self-esteem. LEO: You are not against anyone, but the things you are for might not be in line with what a loved one wants. VIRGO: Loved ones respect your time and will make sure to arrive promptly where you need them. LIBRA: Spending time with new people will bring out a very attractive side of you. SCORPIO: What you say will validate and empower another person. SAGITTARIUS: There is optimism in your walk, in your talk and in the sparkle of your eyes. CAPRICORN: Past relationships have shaped you. Whether it's for better or worse only you can decide. AQUARIUS: Your loved one is an ever-evolving mystery, and you are constantly cracking the code. PISCES: Someone admires the sweet way you talk, especially when you say this person's name.

beerjacket - dacning in the dark

VIRGO Someone is thinking of you! Of course, you'd prefer it if this person would stop thinking and actually do something to show the nature and degree of his or her affection. [exactomundo batman]

VIRGO Forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made, big and small. This is a day for starting over. Besides, you've also done quite a lot of things right.

(hrrmph)

bummer

"Pentheus was jealous so he did something to get even. On top of that his own mother kills him."

[English profs pass this stuff around like a joint at a party.]

lowell fulson - why don't we do it in the road?

VIRGO Why hide your talents? Bring them out in the open so people can see what you do. If nothing else, this is great practice. But likely, once people realize what you are good at, new opportunities will arise.

grading papers

“Another weakness that Hagar possesses is that she already has low self-of-steam.”

gypsy soul - superstition (stevie wonder cover) - [kinda my tempo, come to think of it]

someone loves you boris yeltsin - back in the saddle - for fph, just cz the chorus sounds like his tempo somehow

finally

VIRGO Your position is clear to all those around you. You see everyone as equals and radiate respect for all beings. It will definitely come back to you, and it won't take very long, either.

(update: eyeroll)

Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

--Beckett
Molloy

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: You'll make loved ones proud by solving your own problems and theirs, too, in one fell swoop. TAURUS: Many will want to get close to you, but your heart belongs to only one. GEMINI: Love relationships will be a lot more work than you thought they would be, but you won't mind it. CANCER: Ask around, and you'll find out just who shares your quirky interests. LEO: You'll spend a lot of time working alone, so don't play alone, too. VIRGO: Stay flexible.[ha] Remember that if one way doesn't work for your relationship, there is always another way to go about it. LIBRA: You want to know that another person is having just as much fun as you are in a relationship. So ask! SCORPIO: You'll offer comfort and encouragement as needed. SAGITTARIUS: You don't mind that someone depends on you from time to time, but it's too much pressure if you think they absolutely can't live without you. CAPRICORN: You want the other person to take control, but it might not happen because you're so powerful yourself right now. AQUARIUS: Share about what pleases you, even if you think the other person should already know. PISCES: Don't settle for a relationship that doesn't match up to your standards.



ann peebles - come to mama

laying here, doing nothing at all but thinking

Yesterday sucked ass. Those Madame President days, ugh. I mean, I love my job, I'm grateful for how much I can still care for it, but oy vei faculty are a bunch of divas. Running those meetings drains the absolute life outa me, and the "upside" such that is it comes downs to "wow, I can actually do this shit and do it well and not lose my mind, go figure." I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I grew up somewhere along the way and survived it. And I do like wearing those little suits, I admit it. But now, I gotta disappear for a day back into myself. If I possibly can, I always schedule the Thursday off after a Madame day, so I can have a fistful of hours in quiet (music probably, or maybe not), usually cleaning or some other 'self sorting' type task, along with a dose of laying here, just purely thinking.

ambulance ltd - yoga means union

for my rising sign this week: What is the wild and instinctual nature? Radiance magazine posed that question to storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Here's her reply: "to establish territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to." I would love to see you specialize in these wild and instinctual arts in the coming weeks, Capricorn. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are ready to tap into the deeper reserves of your animal intelligence. Your body is primed to make you very smart about what you need and how to get what you need.

kris delmhost - ain't no grave (my latest in-the-car howler)

t'was a gorgeious day. I took a ride out to see Bale's new barn project and to buy myself a humungo mum from the nursery nearby. on my way, a pheasant ran out right in front of my car. thank goodness nobody else was on the country road so I could slam on my breaks and then admire his cocky ass, strolling off into the grass slowly as if he was letting me check him out. they are WAY bigger than you think, with longer tails and brighter colors, like if Ru Paul was a turkey he'd be a pheasant.

Originally pheasants came from Greece, near the area of the Phasis River, from which we get the name pheasant. There they ran wild in the kingdom of Colchis.

Pheasant is most often linked to the energies of family fertility and sexuality. Most pheasants have splendid tail plumes. Tail plumes have long been associated with sexuality and the greater expression of it. The colors and kinds of feathers reflect much, and most pheasants have a variety of colors and feathers which should be examined. They all can reflect different aspects of the energies the pheasant symbolize for you. Pheasants are good teachers in how to set romantic moods through the warmth of colors.

If pheasant crosses your path, its medicine gives you the ability to attract love and creativity as the male pheasant does; he often has a harem of three mates at a time. Pheasants have strong libidos and are able to attract a healthy amount of attention from desirable partners.



I bought the red mum.

Mercury, the minister of communication, enters the mysterious realm of Scorpio today. As passions soar and interactions grow intense, words spill in the heat of the moment that may or may not be true, but they have power either way. Another thing to keep in mind during this transit: What is not said is usually far more telling than what is said.

quantic - snakes in the grass

bruno mars ft. damien marley - liquor store blues

yesterday started out serioualy bad. like if I were the type of person to make a phone call in a wa wa crisis, I'd have picked up the phone. then later, it was unexptectly good.

MEANING: Builder, Completion, Alternatives

To have a beaver cross your path means you are learning to look for alternative solutions and to see that you can create them yourself. Beaver's are builders and action-oriented animals, so they are encouraging you to work at the things in front of you. And there is always more than one way in and always more than one means of escape; in fact, Beaver teaches you that there are many alternatives by way of waterway channels. Beaver refuses to be cornered, caught off guard, trapped or blocked either.

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: bite me

the assheads are from Wisconsin, I know it's stupid as hell but, cmon

To see a jackhammer in your dream, suggests that you need to make some drastic changes in your life. Break away from your old outdated attitudes and habits.

I suppose I'll probably have to.

I had to give this big presentation on "writing across the curriculum" today to faculty at another college. I had no good reason to do it, it was mediocre money, but I dunno, I just said yes, that's all. I suppose I wanted to cheat on my college for a day, see how I come off to people who aren't used to looking at me. I stressed it for days and days. Then I wore the blue dress. I was mic'd up like Madonna (tee hee). Like many things I do, it was a ton of stressful preparation and then the thing itself was merely perfectly fine. They loved me. Of course they loved me. Self-deprecating jokes fly out of my ass like butterflies.

It was down in Olean, ie Chataqua, the northern Allegany area, a beautiful meandering drive in through fog and out past farmettes and hunting cabins. I love mountains. I love "Nowhere" places. I love Nowheres nestled in mountains best of anything, they're like the environ equivalent of a lover's armpit.

I was listening to: Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, "Sweet Emotion" (Aerosmith)

What would your wildest fantasy be, Virgo? For sure it would involve words. Today you will become very aware of all the subtle nuances of feeling locked into a phrase, or even a whole sentence. You usually seduce your lovers with sweet whispers, but today you may feel the urge to take this one step further and really test the power of grammar.

Ha. I cannot f'n believe that just happens to be my horoscope for today.

listening to: VIRGO You'll express yourself more fully when you're with one who really understands you. If you don't feel like you know such a person, keep casually reaching out. This is a lucky time for finding friends.

College Writing Class Assignments with Real World Applications.
BY CAMERON DODD (McSweeny's)
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1. Write a text message to a girl apologizing for the series of drunken text messages you sent her at 2 a.m. last night, which were just poorly composed requests for her to come over.

2. Write a justification for taking time off from work and school to "figure out what it is you really want to do."

3. Write an obituary for a family member who was, by all accounts, an emotionally distant asshole and unaccomplished poet.

4. Write an e-mail to your professor explaining why you've missed his/her class so many times. (Note: You've already used the "death in the family" excuse.)

5. Write a thank-you note to your aunt for the wedding gift she meant to send to your younger but already more successful brother.

6. Write a letter to your parents notifying them that you have decided to drop out of law school and they won't be getting back any of the money for this semester, which only started two weeks ago.

7. Write a Post-It note to your landlord with some feasible yet not cliché explanation for being late on this month's rent.

8. Write and practice reciting a monologue in which you explain to a girl that you aren't a scumbag like your friend(s), who slept with her and then didn't call her. Incorporate the phrase "I don't even know why I still hang out with those guys."

9. Write another monologue in which you apologize to the same girl for not calling her after you slept with her two weeks ago.

10. Write a cover letter to a bank manager that claims your B.A. in literature gives you advantages that people who have degrees in business, finance, or economics simply don't have.

11. Write an e-mail to your dad with not-so-subtle hints about how you're overqualified for the only openings you can find and how the job market is just not what it used to be.

The literary episode. The boys love this show (shut up, it's the age of youtube, kids can watch someone's grandma get dismembered as easily as they can get gum, ya gotta deal with reality). . . so, but, I have to preview the episodes because even I have to acknowledge that Cartman drinking vagisil smoothies in order to get whitetrash stupid enough to become a Nascar driver is inappropriate. The Adventures of Scrotie McBoogerballs, linked above, is also out of bounds. The Britney Spears episode, however, is popular cultural critique. Milk-n-Cookies always gives us her weekly Star magazine, she leaves them in the Buddha's lap, but since we watched the Spears episode, we've decided that my reading those on the crapper is immoral and I'm back to The New York Review of Books. (I know, you're appalled, but I'm serious nonetheless.)

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: You get closer to a workable relationship by deciding what is not workable. TAURUS: Go where you're the youngest, the oldest or the only girl or guy -- in other words, where you stand out. That's where you'll get the attention you deserve. GEMINI: A friend will introduce you to someone fascinating. CANCER: For a certain someone, your name is the first on the list of datable people. LEO: You prefer to spend some time alone, and that is perfectly acceptable to the one who loves you. VIRGO: A loved one craves your attention and needs to be acknowledged for special contributions. [Deal! Make a contribution to my funds of love, and I'll totally acknowledge you.] LIBRA: Loneliness is remedied by selfless giving. SCORPIO: Someone with a good deal of discretionary time and income will spend it on you. SAGITTARIUS: The graceful way you handle yourself favorably impacts the environment around you. Someone will be intrigued and want to know more. CAPRICORN: Give yourself what you deserve, and others will follow suit. AQUARIUS: Give a loved one points for all that is going right in a relationship. PISCES: Your opinions matter to a loved one -- maybe too much. Be sparing with them!

VIRGO, While you listen to music, relax, enjoy some light reading or just browse the pictures in a magazine, your intelligence will be increased with very little effort on your part.

So it begins again. Ears, in trouble at school. As per usual: He didn't have the worksheet, the worksheet, the worksheet. Does he not have the skill or knowledge necessary? O no, he can do it, he just doesn't. Well, if he can already, what is he LEARNING by completing the worksheet? (blank stares) And he sings. He sings? Yes, he sings in classes that aren't music class. Like, rude bar songs or . . ? No no, he just sings under his breath, it's distracting and shows he's not paying attention. (pause) Bru, were you singing today? Yeah (looking miserable), maybe. What were you singing? Probably smoke on the water. When you were supposed to be filling out a worksheet? No, I think it was in art class. Ok Bru, can you wait in the hallway for a second?

Insert here: me ripping his teachers a new butthole per.

Every teacher who can simply refrain from taking a piss on a child's natural curiosity is worth his/her weight in solid gold.

twins?

helenamaria - telephone (lady gaga) gets better as it goesgoes

repeat
repeat
this cheers me up

listening to: both our tender bellies wound around in baling wire la la (?)

mona zena - tonight

the only thing keeping me dry la lal a

shariff - the district sleeps alone tonight (postal service cover)

sam - peace

listening to: your back ain't strong enough

jeff - nothin (repost) - there's something slays me about him,

listening to: call your boys, they shot a buzzard off the chrystler

iron & wine - he lays in the reigns (live acoustic with italian opera? interlude)

listening to

jeff - johnny

I was tardy in planting my garden this year -- more than two months late. My batch of seedlings didn't find their way into my patch of dirt until July 2. I humbly apologized to them, then made amends with a campaign to provide them with extraordinary care -- organic fertilizer, regular watering, impeccable weeding, steady songs of encouragement. And by September the zucchini were booming, the pumpkins were thriving, the watermelons were unstoppable, and the cucumbers were riffing with abandon. Take inspiration from my example, Virgo. Your plans may have gotten delayed, but don't let that demoralize you. There's still time.

My friend Amy's mom needs a dog. Her father, a capricorn, works full time though he's 80. And her mother, in her 7o's and an attention-loving scorpio, is home all day alone. They tried the SPCA and wound up with a german shepherd (what were they thinking??), which Amy quickly inherited. So, I suggested a shih tzu, Patchey (Django's mom), who is retiring. So I went with Amy today to finalize that deal and wallowed in shih tzu puppies all morning, sticking my face into one furball of love after another. Loompa was scrumptious. For a second, existentially speaking, it came down to Loompa vs. that blue dress. Shih tzu or human? The dress won.

little boy jokes

TJ: Guess what?!
me: what?
TJ: CHICKEN BUTT!! [gigglegigglegiggle]


me: nice.

A classic.

(paper grading season, replete with youtube distractions - I am SO behind on SO much work, it's gotta be funny)

You have 0 friends.

meh, everyone has intimacy issues. playlist
bet.e&steph - I put a spell on you
feist - lovers spit (live acoustic)
emm gryner - pour some sugar on me
jeffrey foucault - buckets of rain

“Friendship Train,” Gladys Knight and the Pips

get on it whoa yeah get off the jackass train la la la yee ha woop woop shake shake it la la laaaaa

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: You're looking for someone to love you unconditionally, and that's what you will find. TAURUS: Standoffish types challenge you to get to know them, and right now it's better to enjoy someone who is more open and easy to get to know. GEMINI: You'll enjoy connecting with someone who is artistic and has excellent taste. CANCER: Confess your needs. Once a loved one knows what you want, he or she will deliver it. LEO: You keep thinking of the one you don't want to think about. If you really want to stop, you'll have to find a better way to divert your attention. VIRGO: You'll be fulfilled by your relationships because you give and receive from the heart. LIBRA: The dance of love is your forte, and you never stop learning new moves. You're still finding out how close to get to a certain person and when. SCORPIO: Love and friendship go hand in hand this weekend. SAGITTARIUS: There is beauty in comfortable quietude and ugliness in awkward silence. CAPRICORN: Though you may prefer to play an intellectual game with your friend, some physical activity will be more fun. AQUARIUS: It's never too late to change your mind. PISCES: Let your loved one know how much you believe in him or her.