Hurricane Ernie

Best luck to all as this creature approaches...

And let us all maintain a healthy sense of humor.

Fish Tank Again

Fish Tank
Originally uploaded by drinkgoodtea.

And more of it...

Fish Tank

Fish Tank
Originally uploaded by drinkgoodtea.

This is it...

Semester starts in 2 days..

So I finally got my work schedule cut back, and I've messed around with my courses so I've got a relatively un-scary batch now. I'm now feeling slightly less like running away. I still can't convince myself to like grad school, actually I still passionately hate this use of 2 good years, but for now I'm not feeling like hiding under the spare bed. So that's something.

So far the psyching-myself-for-school, end of summer process seems to include:

-Buying 3 brightly-colored notebooks, in a smaller size than my usual, in hopes I will take them with me when I go out and about.

-Buying assorted non-cook or microwave-cook edibles, so I can feed my stomach while my mind doesn't want to worry about food.

-Cleaning up the chaotic office space a little. The stacks of books must replace the jigsaw puzzle on the coffee table.

-Setting up a fish tank in my office (pictures later, soon). FrankFiction is taking this project very seriously. I had no idea a fish tank was this much work. I'm not sure it usually is, unless you're a marine science person currently employed and bored in the food service industry.

-Considering doing something different to my fur. Altho maybe not this weird, I do have to face work on Monday morning...

Your Hair Should Be Orange

Expressive, deep, and one of a kind. You pull off "weird" well - hardly anyone notices.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

The first late night ramblings...

Words wasted on the worried woman and the warring worker,
both wishing for the answer
but deaf when it comes.
And if they fall, will it hurt any less because they looked the other way?
They will blame those who tried to warn.
Ask why no one acted.
Though they were standing on our fingers the whole time.
Makes it hard to act, alone, without a hand...

Depleted uranium for breakfast

If it glows green, we must all be careful...

Ahlawi has posted a disturbing article on exposure to depleted uranium in Iraq.

Not only are we sending our own troops to wallow in this stuff, we're sprinkling it all over other people's countries too. A garnish to last til the end of time...Ick.

The US has way too much advanced know-how for its own good. If we don't blow up the entire earth while trying to get the bad guys, we'll just steep in radioactive funk instead.


(blinky image by inatizzy)

Speaking truth to power

George Galloway on Sky News

More of us need to be saying these things out loud. I'm becoming increasingly convinced, we all need to get a hell of a lot louder. The status quo is hard of hearing.

American Lie

American Lie
Originally uploaded by ernieattorney.

This one speaks for itself...

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