is that a sigh of relief or of dispair? (or were you just breathing heavy and got confused?)

drinking my tea, having finished my bagel. Fairly happy today Well, certainly not sad And I read a post from many moons ago that mentioned boyce I associate the name, obviously with the spring, but also with the summer months in Austin. And, all of a sudden, I became really homesick for Austin. My old apartment off of Riverside, runs around Town Lake, late night skates around town stopping in assorted coffee houses to play cards... The smell of the air with humidity. The hot sticky feel after exercising in humidity and sunshine. Riding through the Greenbelt, reading off Mt. Bonnell... To no one in particular... Do you ever feel happy and sad at the same time? Odd how this came up so suddenly.

I guess that's me. Yeah, I feel happy and sad simultaneously. Well I got a contract on a house in Austin today. I now have 10 days to change my mind.

(all the time)

Wow, a house--that's a big commitment, Terry. Sometimes I think ours is a full-time job. Stacey, that happy/sad feeling; sometimes. More commonly I feel a persistent undercurrent of restlessness laying in wait beneath the surface.

yes to all of the above...

congrats on the house Paul! and as far as the brief trip into emotional uncertainty... there's nothing like a class full of rowdy boys to bring you back to the here and now! *smile* and nothing like a beer (or four) to make the day a mere memory!

whew! (spamified) found ramble in another conference... that I'd never checked before two plus years of... rambling. (worn out)

ramble rambles all over about 7 or 8 conferences. Ramble really rambles.

nite, all

afternoon...

Evening, ma'am, hain't seen ya 'round none too much lately. Ya'll okay and all?

fine. busy. frustrated with certain things but nothing catastrophic... you know how it is when you begin to vent... a trickle, a stream, a flood...

yes, I know... but, if I gotta talk to ya'll, then ya'll gotta talk to me *wink*

sure you wanna talk??? *wink*

yep, talk would be the correct verb choice (I'll even sit on my hands in case I forget) *wink-wink*

what should I sit on?!?! *grin*

to keep things "easy", my lap, since we already been there... do we need Terry to do the drivin' this time, or are we just gonna "park" while we talk? *crossing fingers*

okay. In an effort to expand our cultural horizons, let's each choose a different language to speak to each other in. (Kind of the way men and women relate anyway) You may speak whatever you like I choose body language!

No problema, mi amiga.

or, I could pretend you were written in Braille, but since I'm sitting on my hands, not sure how I would read you...couldn't guaranty that there wouldn't be a misunderstanding, you know...

does anyone have any idea why there are so many conservative/libertarian policy institutes around? a visit to www.cato.org and their list of links provides a good overview of the major ones, but why so many?

... because the only thing many conservatives like nearly as well as listening to their own voices is listening to the voices of those that agree with them (that's why there's so damn much noxious stuff congesting the radio waves these days... the entirely moronic phenomona of limbaugh's ditto-heads is illuminating... MANY conservatives are ditto-heads, both intellectually (as far as it goes) and emotionally, far more than will admit it... the way i see it, conservatism is intrinsically anti-intellectual... predicated as it is upon limits... upon reaction... regression... 'conservative think-tank' an oxymoron, because the purpose of that thought is to justify these fundamentally anti-intellectual impulses...

This country is getting more divided all the time, and I saw a 20/20 special the other night that proved it. If you put conservatives together they get more conservative. Same with liberals.

this is a fiction, i believe what's happened to this country can best be ascribed to the end of the fairness doctrine, and the concentration of media into the hands of a few (we've been murdoched)

Murdoched as in myspaced? I agree that's a contributing factor.