May 2007

Further Proof

Quoting from this site: MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting “death to homosexuals” punched and kicked the demonstrators. Riot police detained gay rights activists as they tried to present a petition asking Moscow Mayor […]

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Type Faster!

1540 is my total today.ย  I’m rather disappointed.ย  Especially as I didn’t get started till late in the day.ย  I just…puttered.ย  Some of that was good puttering…I made a Keen wallpaper and cast my bad guy…but most of it was just useless wandering. *sigh*ย  I’ve got to get better at this focus thing. Oh, here

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System

I have 1,452 words so far today.ย  Because I’m using a system.ย  (ooh!)ย  I’m setting a timer and writing as fast as I can for half an hour.ย  No getting up, no internet or email, just me and the word processor.ย  (and the music.ย  Gotta have the music.) It’s working.ย  I’m writing 500 +/- in

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That's What I'm Talking About!

Quoting from this site: In his usual forthright manner, Archbishop Tutu told the BBC that the Anglican communion was spending too much of its time and energy on debating differences over gay priests and same sex marriages – a subject, he said, that had now become “an extraordinary obsession”.ย He said: “We’ve, it seems to me,

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No More Pencils

No more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks… Okay, so it wasn’t the teachers giving me dirty looks. I stand by the rest. It’s such a relief this year. It’s never been so bad before. A few more days and I don’t know what I would have done. Quietly imploded, I think, and then burst

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Damn It, Cookie

This was my friend. TPD says she wasn’t wearing her seatbelt.ย  I find that hard to believe.ย  But what I do know, is that Miss Cookie was a sweet, funny lady with a heart as big as her laugh, and we are going to miss her very, very much.

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That's the Big Deal?

Tonight we had friends over for supper. Because, you know, it matters to people that you show them you care. Grr. These are my friends, who have stood by me through thick and thin for a really long time now. That’s why I’m still calling them friends. Though T–T and D are roommates, and nearly

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