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Obsessions with self-preservation
Faded when I threw my fear away
It's not a thing you can imagine
You either lose your fear
Or spend your life with one foot in the grave

Even *more* fun.

If you thought Feist was fun, check out OK Go:

All in one take at that. Kudos.

From an email ...

My brother asked me an awful question. If Obama is not the nominee, and it comes down to McCain vs. Clinton, what would I want and who would I choose.

I think if that happens I might decide to (metaphorically) shoot myself in the head. How about you?

You Can Sing

Fat tires and cigarettes
Romeos and juliets
Another night of crazy bets
That everyone survives

In short

From the age of about four onward, I believed sincerely in God. I never doubted his existence nor the reality of Christ. I devoted myself to the study and application of spiritual truths. And now that I am thirty-two, and have spent all of my young years on God, I wonder where in the heck my ideas about God/Christ/faith/religion have come from and what I am going to do now that the curtain has fallen and I can see what was really behind it.

FUN! NUMBERS! FEIST!

IM Highlight re: Sudan

Friend: In theory, maybe the UN could do something. I have no real confidence in the UN though. I mean ... how long has this genocide been well known? Several years, I'm sure. Is the UN just waiting for American Idol viewers to call in and vote for helping Sudan?

It's official

The cat has chosen a candidate.

Genius, part two.

"This isn't the first time a restaurant blast has caused chaos in the neighbourhood. A similar blast blew out the aptly named Dynamite Pizza at Broadway and Cambie in the early morning of Aug. 14, 1991.

"An employee was critically injured in the explosion, which was triggered when he tried to clean appliances using gasoline. The force of the blast shattered windows and sent debris over nearly an entire block."

An employee tried to clean appliances using gasoline? Awesome.

Genius.

Dear NY Times Editor,

This page says "Canadians sometimes tire of comparisons with their much larger continental neighbor."

Who is Canada's "much larger continental neighbor"? The only continental neighbor to Canada is the United States, which is smaller than Canada.

You have staff who think the USA is "much larger" than Canada?

Sincerely,

Shizly

So the universe? It sucks.

So, this year, in 2008? Everything has been sucking.

I was reminded early on in the year about some bad relationships I have, and those have been bothering me. Depressing me, even, making me off-and-on unhappy. Work has been getting mind-numbingly boringer by the day, and my husband is in pain and facing a possible lifetime of multiple surgeries/rehab/pain for his hands which have some weird disease.

And my hero of a husband who is so often "up" is now down. He's concerned about what this new diagnosis is going to mean to his health and livelihood, and whether or not he'll have to someday give up photography because his hands don't work anymore. And, in my opinion, he's already had his share of long-term health trials. In my opinion, although he hasn't had cancer or MS or anything quite so stark, he has already suffered and now he's suffering again. I say that even though it's less freaky than cancer doesn't mean he hasn't suffered. He has. And I dare say it's been ENOUGH. I feel like the "How long, O Lord?" version of David in the Psalms:

"How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day?" - Psalm 13:1-2

"How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever?" - Psalm 89:46

"Do return, O LORD; how long will it be? And be sorry for Your servants.O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." - Psalm 90:13-14

"Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am pining away; Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are dismayed. And my soul is greatly dismayed; But You, O LORD--how long? Return, O LORD, rescue my soul; Save me because of Your lovingkindness." - Psalm 6:2-4

THAT'S the kind of feeling I mean.

All in all, it sucks. I'm particularly down at this moment because I got some frustrating news that really isn't at all important but is frustrating all the same. So ... CRUST. ZOUNDS. FART. I am dismayed.

But no, not everything has been sucking, not really. There is love. My husband and friends all love me and I love them and so many people have sent the husband their love. So the love part, there is that, and that is ok.

But everything ELSE in the universe needs to smarten up.

Student Driver

From the Perry Bible Fellowship.