Mary

I hate to say it, but I can't stand your latest site design. I've been using a computer since I was six or seven years old, and I have to say this new design reminds me of that time--because I have to sit there for a minute or two to decide what I can even click on to do what I want.

Come on guys! The next try will be better!

Show us your favorite word, sentence or quote.

I don't know about my favorite, but I was reading for class and came across this line written by John Donne. It's from the poem The Canonization.

The Canonization

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,

Or chide my palsy or my gout,
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune, flout,
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe His Honor, or His Grace,
Or the king's real, or his stamped face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.

Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned?
Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veins fill
Add one man to the plaguy bill?
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.

Call us what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find the eagle and the dove.
The phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us: we two being one, are it.
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.

We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
And if no piece of chronical we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love:

And thus invoke us: You whom reverend love
Made one another's hermitage;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes
(So made such mirrors and such spies;
That they did all to you epitomize)
Countries, towns, courts: Beg from above
A pattern of your love!

Am I dating myself here?

If you've ever been to my apartment, you probably know that I love Pom Tea with a passion. You've either seen it in my fridge, or used one of the Pom Tea glasses for water or another beverage.

If you haven't tried it yet, I suggest you do! Don't like the first one you try? Try another flavor! They've got a bunch. Anything from black to green tea.

I was delighted tonight when I accompanied my mom to the grocery store to find something for dinner. In the produce isle, right next to the fruit--I spied two new flavors from my favorite beverage maker!

They are Pomegranate Lychee Green Tea, and Pomegranate Hibiscus Tea. I have only tried the new Pom/Lychee Green, but I am madly and furiously in love with it.


Seriously. Try it! And thank me later.

The Animal Rescue Site. Click on the above link and once at the site, click on the big PURPLE button. Sponsors pay for food and care, and 100% of sponsor money goes to charity.

While you're there, notice the other tabs at the top of the website... might as well click for those causes, too, while you're at it! The sponsors for each cause are a great starting point for those Christmas gifts and it helps your cause of choice even more.







Go on, do it!

I'm reading this book, The Wal-Mart Triumph for my online course, Giants of Business, and I'm having a really hard time getting through the book.

The trouble I'm having with it is the obvious filtering of facts. This is the third book we've read for the course, the first being about Steve Jobs, the second about Google... and those, I will admit, were more toward my interests; but I also believe that they did a much better job at being objective. Those books both gave (what I consider) fair points on the good and the bad of the entire person, situation, what have you.

This Wal-Mart book in particular (granted I'm only 49 pages in) seems to just be some kiss ass account. I know there's more good than bad accounts of the bargain-basement super chain (which is part of the reason I think my instructor chose this piece of literature); but I don't understand why the book doesn't stress the highlights of the corporation if that's what he was hoping to do, while bringing up the negative issues as well. The author, Robert Slater, seems to be skirting them all under the rug, thus far. The only real mentions of anything amiss are in the first few pages, and even then the mentions are pretty vague.

It's kind of puke worthy. I hope it gets better. I can't imagine having to write an entire final paper based around this book.