I think this syllabus is unreasonably biased toward people with the last name Palmer.

Logicalogics was a fun way to go out. It strikingly reminded me of the sort of work I saw working on my high school’s literary magazine.

I am happy to announce that I’ve evidently survived the semester.

– DECEMBER – is jingle bells month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Nostrodamus, Tycho Brahe, Patty Duke. And Lindsay!

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Flashlight Museum.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Now, what’s the longest you’ve ever slept, uninterrupted?

Cannot post today. The semester is out to destroy. And will be over tonight. Then I will sleep. Sweet sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s the longest you ever stayed awake?

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– DECEMBER – Is U.N. World Aids Awareness month.
– TODAY – is La Virgen De Guadalupe.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Gustave Flaubert and Frank Sinatra. And Buffy!

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.

Well. What a depressing book to read over the Thanksgiving holiday!

Although, while it was depressing, it wasn’t precisely discouraging. This contradiction was one of the most fascinating aspects of this piece to me… that while the subject matter was not only somber, but entropically somber (ie.

– DECEMBER – is Universal Human Rights month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Erica!

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
The New York Times: Joy, and Violence, at Death of Pinochet.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is the Bluest Blue you ever Blued?

Isn’t that just about the creepiest religious picture ever? I found it on a Catholic Greeting Card site, and I’m assuming that it therefore have been originally created prior to the Great Schism of the 11th century… Catholic churches were not allowed to create icons of this sort for the following eight hundred years (and even today, their use is restricted to Catholic churches of the Eastern rites.)

– DECEMBER – is Gift Wrap month.
– TODAY – is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Bodhi Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Horace, Mary Queen of Scots, Diego Rivera, James Thurber, Jim Morrison, and Kim Basinger.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Bolivia.

This was our second year living in Flushing Township. I remember this month pretty vividly, actually. It kicked off with the inaugural performance of the Flushing Junior High School Drama Club’s production of The Wizard of Oz, and I played the wizard.