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You bag-carriers are silly. If it doesn't fit in my pants and jacket pockets and I can't comfortably carry it in one hand (a book, for example), I go without. Yeah, well smarty, when you get over 50 and bulgy, that stuff in your pockets kinda hurts. Sitting on a wallet all day at an office is dumb ...

You bag-carriers are silly. If it doesn't fit in my pants and jacket pockets and I can't comfortably carry it in one hand (a book, for example), I go without.

Denny wrote:

Congratulations wrote:I might also be afraid of failure.

....and ya want to write poetry?

how's that work?

Poetry doesn't matter. Beards, on the other hand.

Denny wrote:

Congratulations wrote:I'd like to grow a beard. I started to a couple of weeks ago, but I got to thinking about that awkward month of "Are you trying to grow a beard or something?" and I shaved.

oh, dear! I've been growing one since 1970....still dodgy, it is!

I might also be afraid of failure.

Apply to 100 grad schools, and get accepted to at least one! That's a lot of money in application fees. What kind of program are you looking for? Similarly, I'd like to have a good list of possible grad schools for myself by the end of January. My adviser is putting together a list of schools she'd...

Dale wrote:Dorothy: How can you talk if you have no brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know.

This is exactly what came to mind when I read the thread title.

Nearly forgotten,
from the depths: haiku thread. Oh,
necrophilia.

David Sedaris has a lovely and humorous collection of Christmas-themed short stories.

To whom is my charitable donation going? And can I write it off?

No feathers ruffed, just trying to get underneath a value judgment. I certainly understand personal situations, and I didn't know the book was $15 (that's pretty dern expensive). It's probably already on the internet, anyway.

Has anyone read it? Is it worth picking up?

I'm undecided on this one right now, after seeing a copy at Books-A-Million. Only about a 100 pages with big print. It's just priced too high for something I can read in less than hour. I've still feel a bit ripped off from buying "A War of Gifts" by Orson Scott Card, which is a similar s...

That opening of Pictures at an Exhibition is certainly catchy. I hadn't thought of that lovely piece of music in years, and now it won't go away. Thanks.

FIRST, a thought: Why has no one written a Planxty Hewlett Packard? Have I just missed it? A forum search is in progress; I'll report back. SECOND, down to business: I have had several Sufjan Stevens songs stuck in my head. Well, really, just the entirety of Illinoise. Little Brother, Grizzly Bear W...

HDSarah wrote:I can't imagine living in a place so warm that you weren't aware that batteries don't have much power in the cold!

Yeah, it doesn't really get cold here. All this talk of negative temperatures makes me dizzy. The coldest it gets here is like 30 degrees for a couple of weeks in February.