I am…

I ain’t done this in a while (previously: one, two, three, four, five, six) and since I somehow feel my life has moved on from when I last did it I thought it would be interesting to do it again. More »

Week-ends are great!

You can be lazy and stuff, I love doing that! I usually have plans tho and mostly never go through with them. My plans for this week-end included doing a whole Lotta laundry, and putting up the glass shelf in the bathroom. Well, I still have a day left. More »

Protected: “Runaway” – two years on

Mon wants an update

I said she should write it herself. She’ll definitely need to write one too, cuz she didn’t last time and that’s just not acceptable. More »

The coming together of things

Hi. *waves* 1.5 days of work left then 4 days off, yay! 4 days of laziness are great, even if I do hate Christmas. Alisdair’s coming for the weekend so will try to be a little less lazy then. We can go for brisk walks along the seafront. =)) More »

End of Year survey 2008

Previously… 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003. More »

Protected: Secret Santa

RIP Freddie & Wolferl

[originally written Friday night] All through the end of November I kept thinking “there is some date I should be remembering around now”.
I remembered tonight – it was the anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death. 🙁 24th November 1991. And Mozart died today, 200 years before Freddie – 5th December 1791. More »

Glass half empty

Alabama voters on Tuesday [NB: Nov 2000!] repealed the state’s century-old ban against interracial marriage, an unenforceable but embarrassing throwback to the state’s segregationist past.
The vote was running 59 percent to 41 percent, with 58 percent of the voted counted. [source]

This means that 41% of voters in Alabama eight years ago voted against interracial marriage (even if the law by that time was ineffectual). While this is “the minority” (less than 50%), and the law was thrown out, it’s not really “a minority” – it is more than 2 in 5 people. It’s really not that far from half of them.

Of course with only 58% of the votes counted this may not have been entirely representative, esp. with urban precincts likely reporting later. I couldn’t find any final results during my quick googling. Still it’s probably not that far off and… well yeah. Kinda sad. Despite Obama.

Question to self: what shall I do?

[entry inspired by this CNN story about genocide] More »