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gwydion* Re Adrian Peterson: I am deeply disturbed by the large number of people defending the practice of flogging a four year old's genitals bloody as if it were the equivalent of a simple spanking. WTF?!?
* "Colchester: Roman find of ‘national importance’ discovered under Williams & Griffin store:" http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/colchester_roman_find_of_national_importance_discovered_under_williams_griffin_store_1_3756005
* "Turkish archaeologists discover ancient Roman church in Kosovo:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-archaeologists-discover-ancient-roman-church-in-kosovo.aspx?pageID=238&nid=71249&NewsCatID=375
I'm assuming they mean 4th Century CE, because it being BC makes no sense.
* "Psychedelic Culture Tripped Circa 500 A.D.:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/psychedelic-culture-tripped-circa-500-ad-140902.htm
* "The tale of the parrot that started a fight:" http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29079683
* "The WW1 game that's still popular today:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29050369
* It is too damned hot. It should be Fall, but thanks to climate change, it continues hotter than July used to be here fifteen years ago. Ever since the sun stroke I got in Alabama in... I'm thinking '87, I really can't handle heat. I had to do a bunch of day errands today, so I went out in it anyway. My the time I got home I was barely functional and it took more than an hour to put things away and hydrate enough for me to hide in my bedroom with hector and the air conditioning. We ended up have a nap and pettins. As a result, I'm again, way behind on everything.
* I am naturally nocturnal and always have been. I have memories from when I was two and three of not being able to sleep and getting up to play silently in the dark long after my parents went to bend. When I learned to read, I pretended to be afraid of the dark so I'd have light to read after bed time. I'd hear the creaking boards when my father came to check on me, and my father would always only check the places he used to hide his books, so I'd hide mine somewhere else. I learned to control my breathing, to get back into sleeping position. By seven, I could fake sleep well enough to trick my sharper eyed mother. This is simply how I am, yet another brain wiring quirk. When I was young and healthy, I could fight it for things like school and work, but there is a reason I worked graveyard shift whenever I had a choice. My parents stopped trying to force a diurnal schedule on me in Summer in my early teens. They were giving in to a reality that they couldn't change, as they often eventually had to as my teens progressed. I didn't lie, but I was very good at not getting caught, all those years of my Grim Little War teaching me too many skills for resistance. I would obey rules I agreed with that made sense, but I simply could not see the point in lying in the dark bored when I could be reading or sitting out on the roof where I might catch a bit of breeze.
I have always been a Night Person, the way I've always been an Autumn person, an October person. It is disorienting to me to be up in the day in melting heat. My normally excellent time sense is as off, as if I were on morphine, and it is hard to think or accomplish anything. Night and cool breezes energize me.
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html
* "Colchester: Roman find of ‘national importance’ discovered under Williams & Griffin store:" http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/colchester_roman_find_of_national_importance_discovered_under_williams_griffin_store_1_3756005
* "Turkish archaeologists discover ancient Roman church in Kosovo:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-archaeologists-discover-ancient-roman-church-in-kosovo.aspx?pageID=238&nid=71249&NewsCatID=375
I'm assuming they mean 4th Century CE, because it being BC makes no sense.
* "Psychedelic Culture Tripped Circa 500 A.D.:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/psychedelic-culture-tripped-circa-500-ad-140902.htm
* "The tale of the parrot that started a fight:" http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29079683
* "The WW1 game that's still popular today:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29050369
* It is too damned hot. It should be Fall, but thanks to climate change, it continues hotter than July used to be here fifteen years ago. Ever since the sun stroke I got in Alabama in... I'm thinking '87, I really can't handle heat. I had to do a bunch of day errands today, so I went out in it anyway. My the time I got home I was barely functional and it took more than an hour to put things away and hydrate enough for me to hide in my bedroom with hector and the air conditioning. We ended up have a nap and pettins. As a result, I'm again, way behind on everything.
* I am naturally nocturnal and always have been. I have memories from when I was two and three of not being able to sleep and getting up to play silently in the dark long after my parents went to bend. When I learned to read, I pretended to be afraid of the dark so I'd have light to read after bed time. I'd hear the creaking boards when my father came to check on me, and my father would always only check the places he used to hide his books, so I'd hide mine somewhere else. I learned to control my breathing, to get back into sleeping position. By seven, I could fake sleep well enough to trick my sharper eyed mother. This is simply how I am, yet another brain wiring quirk. When I was young and healthy, I could fight it for things like school and work, but there is a reason I worked graveyard shift whenever I had a choice. My parents stopped trying to force a diurnal schedule on me in Summer in my early teens. They were giving in to a reality that they couldn't change, as they often eventually had to as my teens progressed. I didn't lie, but I was very good at not getting caught, all those years of my Grim Little War teaching me too many skills for resistance. I would obey rules I agreed with that made sense, but I simply could not see the point in lying in the dark bored when I could be reading or sitting out on the roof where I might catch a bit of breeze.
I have always been a Night Person, the way I've always been an Autumn person, an October person. It is disorienting to me to be up in the day in melting heat. My normally excellent time sense is as off, as if I were on morphine, and it is hard to think or accomplish anything. Night and cool breezes energize me.
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html