I am applying to schools in Canada and am trying to figure out the logistics of student employment.  I know that people are typically entitled to part time off-campus employment after 6 months of school, but what about during the summer?  Would I still be allowed to live in the country during the summer break when school wasn't in session?  Might I be able to work FT then as I would not be in class?

As promised, the news that deserves its own post:

"All Beautiful Things" will be in the October issue of Realms of Fantasy (which, in the mysterious way of publishing, will hit newstands around September 1).

I received my contributor's copies a few days ago, and was promptly gobsmacked by the accompanying illustration, which the artist, Dave Leri, has graciously given me permission to post:

( Large image behind cut )

For the Viable Paradise grads: this is the story I wrote for the "Flamethrowers and Fairydust" reunion challenge--while playing support spouse at VP X.

I've read three of the other stories in the issue so far, and liked them all, which is a great hit rate for picky ol' me. vylar_kaftan's is awesome. I plan to read the others soon.

Joe Biden in an airplane hanger in Pennsylvania on the day that Al Gore announced Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Gore and Lieberman were an hour late so someone suggested Biden get up and talk and he talked for 59 minutes about economics, off the cuff, and I was struck dumb at how he was able to do that, for an hour, without an um, or an aah, cohesively, like a college professor who'd been doing it forever. He was an excellent speaker.

I used to live in Wilmington and I ran into him once at the grocery store, he was with Tom Carper, who, at the time, was my congressman and was sporting some serious 5 O'clock shadow. I was like "You're Joe Biden!" and he said "This is Tom Carper," and I said "Yeah, I know, but you're Joe Biden." (about seven years later in an elevator in the Press Club in Washington D.C. I repeated this performance of acute skill by pointing at the man in front of me and announcing "You're Karl Rove!" (Ronnie James Dio is not the only person who thinks I'm an idiot!)

Then a few years later I found myself in Bucharest Romania with Joe's sister, and campaign manager, Valerie. She was teaching women how to run for political office, I was photographing stuff.



I was sitting upstairs like a good boy working on my speech for the Rowan University convocation and came downstairs to look for a quote in a book, and now I'm sitting here with trillian_stars slacking, watching the convention. She's a bad influence on me.

But you get this picture.

p.s. Note to Joe Biden: All the cool kids are using the Windsor knot now, the 4 in hand is so ... Beatles.

 Oh when will the telepathic software be ready, so that I can just think the story and it will move from my brain to the computer, fully formed and ready for (telepathic) revisions?

Just wondering.

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11, 9, 7, 7, (17)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LitSoup/~3/376707226/mismanagement.html

For those just joining us in progress.... it's now official that the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is formally investigating my condo association's former manager and former association board. For malfeasance and fraud. Over the last fifteen years.

You think it can't happen to you, people. But it can.

If you live in a townhouse or a condo or a co-op, go to your board meetings. Make sure you vote in elections. Practice due diligence. It costs a lot of money otherwise.

In completely unrelated news, can someone please tell me why Zoe needs to drink from not one, but both upstairs bathroom sinks within a period of five minutes? =)

I'm either going to join a yoga or a pilates class once a week, but am wondering what the main differences are between them, before I decide?

English muffin, sweet tomato sauce, fresh basil, fresh mozzarella and sweet yellow onion.
Leftovers from lunch with a twist.

Have you ever read one of the Guardian novels by Meljean Brook?

No?

Well, she's having a contest over at her blog, and all you have to do is comment. She has 25 (25!!) frickin' copies to give away of her newest anthology.

Go! See! Enter! Meljean is one of my all-time favorite authors and permanently on my auto-buy. Her heroes are to die for. Utterly delish. Yum yum.

http://meljeanbrook.com/blog/archives/616

Posted plan to just take my passport to Buffalo instead of sending it in.

(  Here is your play by play of how to take your passport to Buffalo and land the same day )

So to sum up:

~*~ If you do this, BE THERE EARLY! We were going back up after our Timmies, people who showed up just before 8:30am were just then getting their numbers, they must have been in the fourth or fifth group to go up.


~*~ Bring all the crap they ask you to in the letter. Makes them happy and makes things go smooth.


~*~ Bring a book. It only took two hours to get it done, so waiting was worth while. Some guy left and came back and his number had already been called while he was gone. He had to go back through the line up (no small thing at that point) AND wait as they called up other numbers who went straight to the window by passing the line.


~*~ Be patient. It's all gonna work out!

Thanks guys for such a great community! I swear it saved us Months if not a Year of waiting for our PR. Applying Outside was a huge time saver, and y'all always put me at ease with my millions of questions.

Thanks again!
B

At least in musical selection.  Here are, in chronological order, the pop songs I've heard so far at the Democratic National Convention, with their original year of release and artist.

*1964 - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Dylan)
*1967 - Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
*1967 - Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin)
*1969 - Give Peace a Chance (Lennon)
*1972 - I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash)
*1973 - Love Train (O'Jays)
*1975 - No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)
 1978 - September (Earth, Wind and Fire)
 1979 - What I Like About You (Romantics)
 1982 - Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
 1984 - Born in the USA (Bruce)

Yup, most of the songs are from the Viet Nam era (*).  Of all these, the most recent is 24 years ago (maybe a poke at the Republicans, as Reagan famously and inappropriately chose "Born in the USA" as a slogan).

Are they pandering to an older generation?  Are they trying to invoke a time of change wherein we were also mired in a pointless war?  Or making a comment about the current administration in "Chain of Fools"?

Or maybe it's because all the good songs are from that era? (snirk)

Hi everyone! I recently moved from Florida to Los Angeles (Culver City more specifically) I was wondering if anyone might recommend a good, affordable place in the area to take classes? I used to be in a troupe in Florida, but that was back in '06 and since then I haven't been in official bellydance classes but I've been keeping up with it by practicing at home with DVD's and I did attended a few workshops since then. I was wondering if anyone could offer me advice, if I were to start up in classes again, if I should start at a lower level than what I left off at because its been so long, or if I should go back to advanced classes.

thanks in advance for the help!

I pick up old magazines from the library to cut pictures out of and I happened to notice this little article while flipping through an old issue of Good Housekeeping (September 2007 issue).

Rethinking a "Miracle Pill"
Antioxidant supplements, once hailed as a frontline defense against cancer and heart disease, aren't living up to their hype. A review of 68 studies showed no evidence that supplements of beta-carotene and vitamins A and E are beneficial; in fact, they seem to increase the risk of mortality. Vitamin C pills neither helped nor harmed. But a daily  multivitamin is still OK. Most of these studies involved far higher doses of antioxidants than you'd find in a standard formula.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, February 28, 2007


Anyone heard this anywhere else?

So there you have it. The difference three months can make. I don't quite believe myself that he's done so darned well. It's had its ups and downs but mainly ups and I wouldn't change him for the world.

Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for President!  Awesome.

I've always enjoyed the roll call of states.  The way that state delegations laud their own favorite sons or geographical qualities - the Montana delegation celebrated the golden prairies to the west (oops, they meant east and then corrected themselves) and the Rockies in the west.  The Illinois delegation is looking forward to a World Series between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs.

The actual nomination was highly orchestrated.  Hillary had released her delegates earlier in the day - and I missed Florida, but Michigan (where Obama did not campaign) cast its votes overwhelmingly for Barack. 

It's also very important who actually puts the candidate over in number of votes.  New Jersey [oops, New Mexico - thanks, Scarlettina] had the stage to cast their votes, but deferred to... Illinois, Barack's home state.  Then Illinois deferred to New York.  As part of the New York delegation, Hillary herself asked that Barack be accepted as the nominee by vocal acclamation.  There was a call for those who supported that motion to announce themselves, and the gathered delegates did.

Yes, it was scripted, it was orchestrated, and completely predictable.  But, in a way, it was nice to see Hillary be the one who, for the sake of unity, called for Barack to be nominated by acclamation.  

It must have hurt like hell, but it was a classy thing to do.  And sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do, what it hurts to do, even if you don't mean it, because it's the right thing to do.

[I also thought it was a nice touch that the song they played after the official announcement was the O'Jay's "Love Train" - a song by a black group calling for racial harmony, and a song that completely panders to the older generation that Obama needs to win this fall.  Interestingly, they changed the lyrics - which describe the train making stops in England, China, Russia, and Israel, too - the lyrics were changed to "The first stop that we make will be New York..."] 

Not till Friday, but still. Shattuck.

i'm scared to death of vomiting, and i was very excited to make my own mouthwash with peroxide and water, until i learned that if you accidentally swallow any, it will make you vomit like crazy.

i would really rather not take that chance. (although i've never swallowed mouthwash in the past)

But i need a mouthwash that i can make at home that has some serious cleansing and inflammation reducing power. i'm working with my dentist to get my mouth into much better shape, but i want to do all i can at home, as naturally as i can, to help that process along.

What, if anything, can i use in my own mouthwash that works as well as peroxide without the vomit factor? If i go ahead and use peroxide, and at some point accidentally swallow some, will the illness it causes stop quickly, or what? Will i need to call poison control, or is it no big deal?

Sorry to ask such odd questions, and i know my concern may seem silly, but for me, it matters.
Thank you very much for your help.