07:07 - Monday, Oct. 31, 2005
happy halloween!!!
today is halloween!! i hope all you guys have fun today/tonight, and that your kids are safe and sound, and if you drink, please dont drive, especially tonight, as the lil folks will be out and about!!
this is one of the biggest nights of the year for drunk-driving arrests, so just be careful, and USE a designated driver!!!
i am working all night tonight, 5 pm to 9 am, this aughta be interesting!!
upcoming events: my 500th entry!!! wheeeeeeeeeee!!!
cold weather!!!! whooooooooo!!!
free candy!!!! heheheheee!!!
STAY VIGILANT!!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
WORD OF THE DAY:
immolate IM-uh-layt, transitive verb:
1. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill as a sacrificial victim.
2. To kill or destroy, often by fire.
What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove, or to Neptune, or a mouse to Hecate . . . if I quake at opinion, the public opinion, as we call it; or at the threat of assault, or contumely, or bad neighbors, or poverty, or mutilation, or at the rumor of revolution, or of murder?
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and English traits
In the city of Bhopal, police used water canon to thwart a group of Congress workers who were on the point of immolating themselves.
--Peter Popham, "Gandhi critics are expelled by party," Independent, May 21, 1999
Bowls of honey at the room's center drew random insects to immolate themselves against a nearby bug zapper.
--Carol Kino, "Damien Hirst at Gagosian," Art in America, May 2001
GARFIELD
