I just started re-reading Gone with the Wind for the millionth time. I was discussing it with a classmate this morning, and realized I couldn't remember the details of the point I was trying to make. (The point being that Scarlett in the novel makes WAY more sense than Scarlett in the movie, and that I absolutely cannot stand Ashley in the novel, while the movie glosses over many of his worst points.)

This is why I have never been able to get rid of a book. Even bad ones. I just know that someone is going to argue some point with me, and I'll have read it, and it'll be the one book I decided to toss.

However, this does not explain my need to own 3 of several of the same books.

How's Allyson this morning? Did she go in? Is she catching up on sleep? Is Ruby flipping?

Yikes, fire scary.

Also, y'all have apparently been sinning way too much. We have our first named tropical storm of the season. May 9th!!! I expect locust any time now.

Also, there is no way I would ever read GWTW again for any reason.

This sounds awesome:

Ben Templesmith's comic "Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse" walks a fine line between icky and funny, and it walks it very well. Wormwood is a tiny, sentient worm that pilots a rotting corpse (complete with inverted pentagram carved into its forehead) around, steering from his vantage-point in the corpse's right eye-socket. His sidekicks include a clanking mechanical steampunk android with a fetish for small arms and an ultra-violent stripper who can cause wings to burst forth from her back.

They fight crime.

Of course.

The artwork in this one is just fabulous -- muddy watercolors streaked with savage tentacle-beasts and shambling horrors from nether-hells. Templesmith draws good gore, too.

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Also, y'all have apparently been sinning way too much. We have our first named tropical storm of the season. May 9th!!! I expect locust any time now.

Crap. I hate that this applies to me now. Guess I'd better get that generator.

We have our first named tropical storm of the season.

Aw, man.

I looked at at noaa's webpage but didn't see anything, although i did see a picture of a big hurricane looking storm lurking just of fthe east coast.

eta: oh, and thanks everyone for the concern/sympathy.

Also, y'all have apparently been sinning way too much. We have our first named tropical storm of the season. May 9th!!! I expect locust any time now.

Chicago Sun Times: May 22 Sounds Like the Day for Cicadas

It's not a bad storm and we are hoping for a bit of rain from it. It is up around the FL/GA border. It just is too soon for this stuff. [link]

The National Hurricane Center:

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Lee, why are you awake?

Allergies.

I almost kinda went back to sleep though.