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The Graceful Antics of Language

So how are all of you peoples doing today? Excellent. Me, I'm doing fine, although a bit tired at the moment. The flood crisis is pretty much over, (yay!) and now all there is to worry about is the awful stink that h…
- 7/8/2007 4:17 PM
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The Tangle of My Mind

Well, it's been some time since my last, rather lengthy post, but I have been enjoying myself away from the internet. Thursday I went to a local cafe (aptly named The Rolling Pin) to meet some friends and discovered th…
- 6/25/2007 10:46 PM
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The Art and Joy of Words

Just as a change of pace, I thought I'd post a few excerpts from some works of fiction. I tried to post yesterday, but the internet declared war against me. Today is amnesty day... The conclusion of Middlemarch, b…
- 6/21/2007 12:33 PM
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...To Madness Near Allied...

Wow. This has been a strange weekend. Friday I spent an hour searching through my old high school's office for laminating sheets, and then [mysteriously] found the master key and was able to search through the new admi…
- 6/17/2007 3:02 PM
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Splashes of Beauty

Well, as I'm enjoying quite a lot of poetry right now, I thought I'd post some here. This may be a bit too much for one post, but they're shortish and quite beautiful (I think). There's no common theme between the four…
- 6/13/2007 1:51 PM
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Well, I'm glad that many of you found my last post to be inspiring; the truth is, I stayed up late the night before watching a PBS special on the subject and simply felt that I needed to say something about it on xanga.…
- 6/10/2007 8:46 PM
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Yes, I know- Its been a while since I've posted. My friend Becca came to visit from Houston, and the house was filled with much merriment and randomness... In the ten days Becca stayed, we watched: Pursuit of Happyn…
- 6/1/2007 6:08 PM
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Greetings and Salutations to the Xanga world! Hope everyone has been having an excellent week. Me, I'm done with school for several months and enjoying the novel concept of sleeping in. I couldn't think of what else to…
- 5/18/2007 9:43 PM
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Before last summer, I had never heard of forgotten Victorian genius Elizabeth Gaskell. Then my best friend (xanga.com/britlitlover)'s mother told about this new author she had discovered, and I read the small, cozy, cha…
- 4/28/2007 7:55 PM
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Living in God's time

I'm having problems with the fonts on my schizophrenic computer. Oh well. If anybody reads this, I'm sure it won't impair your reading too badly. About the poems selected: I really didn't notice a theme linking the th…
- 4/23/2007 9:47 AM
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