Ars Gratia Artis

I stood beside my running car, the students bustling around me, smiling back at the woman who had just hugged me with such gratitude.
“You’re wonderful, an angel!” she said.
Softly, I replied, “It’s my job,” and turned to go.
In the moment between waving goodbye and stepping into my car, I glowed a little, inside, a [...]

Then Get One. Goes with milk!
From Rufinia. LMAO.

What a great title, eh?
I must say, since disabling trackbacks, forcing moderation for all comments, and black listing particular medication names, I have had zero comment spam. Thank ghod. No, really. This is a totally backwater public journal, and yet I got as many as 150 a day every fraking day. What a nightmare it [...]

Alas, I has such hope. It was fun to watch, nonetheless. It’s a spectacle as much as a game, a tourney for the 21st century, pass out the bread because here is the circus. But alas, my hopes are disappointed.
Super Tasty Fun Candy!

Another book bites the dust in the One from Each project. It was [...]

Such a rushed day, and no idea how it all got so crazy that I forgot to eat. 6 PM came and the morning bowl of oatmeal had long been forgotten.
Something about the teacup was strangely comforting, so much so that I didn’t notice how closely the color imitated the terrifying [...]

I’ve been meaning to do something with this information for some time, but as I am now in the process of reconditioning the blank tables book, I have to save the information somewhere else.
From a class on heraldic display, some things decorated with heraldry that I particularly noted:
* Women were members of the Order of [...]