<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:33:13.791-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice shoes, let's, um, hang out some time?</title><subtitle type='html'>Feel free to email me with questions/comments/concerns.  My address is ivyqueenofsheeba@hotmail.com

I would love to hear from you.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>55</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-108580739390444324</id><published>2004-05-29T00:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-05-29T00:09:53.906-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>So, it is done then.  I am actually a highschool graduate now, and frankly, I like it.  Oh it feels so very delicious to be done with that sillyness and finaly moving on to the big time: the University of Chicago.  And can you imagine?  Well, that will be a very long trip, but hopefully not one gone awry.  I am not sad about leaving.  Not a completely true statement, but then again, there is so </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/108580739390444324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=108580739390444324' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108580739390444324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108580739390444324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/05/so-it-is-done-then.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-108044921362753290</id><published>2004-03-27T22:46:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-03-27T22:49:26.763-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> A Message Gone Awryi overhear a man about my age say"if not now, when?"i wonder if he heard that first,as i did, from peter marin,with whom i taught at l.a. statein 1964-65. he was right, of course, some people postpone living in an endlesspreparation for a life that leaks its fuel before it fires from its launching pad.prufrock, for instance, and john marcher.newman's idea of a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/108044921362753290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=108044921362753290' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108044921362753290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108044921362753290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/03/message-gone-awry-i-overhear-man-about.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-108028112154513071</id><published>2004-03-26T00:05:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-03-26T00:07:53.343-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Oh, for schools it will either be University of Chicago or University of Minnesota.  I'm thinkin' Chicago...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/108028112154513071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=108028112154513071' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108028112154513071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108028112154513071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/03/oh-for-schools-it-will-either-be.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-108028027203913311</id><published>2004-03-25T23:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-03-25T23:53:43.170-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Right, so welcome to spring everyone.  I got my hair(s) cut on Tuesday night.  Over ten inches gone, snippity snap.  Just like that, all choreographed to the tunes of the softrock station they had playing over the speaker system.  So yes, now I look like I am seven.  A neat trick, and I will be sure to whip it out at opportune times in the future when I reach that inevitable age of desperation </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/108028027203913311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=108028027203913311' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108028027203913311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/108028027203913311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/03/right-so-welcome-to-spring-everyone.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-107705414020409422</id><published>2004-02-17T15:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-02-17T15:44:14.170-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Waving Good-ByeI wanted to know what it was like before wehad voices and before we had bare fingers and before wehad minds to move us through our actionsand tears to help us over our feelings, so I drove my daughter through the snow to meet her friendand filled her car with suitcases and hugged heras an animal would, pressing my forehead against her, walking in circles, moaning, touching</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/107705414020409422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=107705414020409422' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107705414020409422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107705414020409422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/02/waving-good-bye-i-wanted-to-know-what.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-107440537167922552</id><published>2004-01-17T23:56:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-01-17T23:57:35.560-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved(and that reminds me who said o yes FrostSomething there is which isn't fond of walls)an electromagnetic (now Ive lostthe) Einstein expanded Newton's law preservedconTinuum (but we read that beFore)of Course life being just a Reflex youknow since Everything is Relative orto sum it All Up god being Dead (not tomention inTerredLONG LIVE </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/107440537167922552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=107440537167922552' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107440537167922552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107440537167922552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2004/01/space-being-dont-forget-to-remember.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-107016610729622964</id><published>2003-11-29T22:21:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2003-11-29T22:22:22.360-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I have realized that for the most part, I do not know most of my friends' favorite colors.  I do not like that, not one bit.  I mean, really, I should know what color connects to, well, (here comes some new-age-y spirit speak) their souls.  And another thing that bothers me a bit is how things like ('little') favorites are often left out of biographies.  I recently did a mini research project on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/107016610729622964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=107016610729622964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107016610729622964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/107016610729622964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/11/i-have-realized-that-for-most-part-i.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106895651070889452</id><published>2003-11-15T22:21:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2003-11-15T22:27:38.280-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>reÂ·iÂ·fy    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (r-f, r-)tr.v. reÂ·iÂ·fied, reÂ·iÂ·fyÂ·ing, reÂ·iÂ·fies To regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.It's the birthday of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (1887). She's particularly well known for her giant paintings of flowers, though she once said, "I only paint them because they're cheaper </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106895651070889452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106895651070889452' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106895651070889452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106895651070889452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/11/reify-p-pronunciation-key-r-f-r-tr.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106833681189784392</id><published>2003-11-08T18:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2003-11-08T18:13:29.836-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Well, well, well, here I am again, only one month (and then some) later.  I am excited.  I am happy.  I am doing just fine and will weather the storms with grace.  I have fallen in love with flamenco music and dance.  I have a very important project for urban geography which I am desperately postponing.  I am ready, I just feel that there are better things I should be doing...... like blogging...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106833681189784392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106833681189784392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106833681189784392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106833681189784392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/11/well-well-well-here-i-am-again-only.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106532474502482866</id><published>2003-10-04T22:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-10-04T22:32:24.690-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Today, I had a very strange realization in a very not strange situation.  The situation was choosing to work for a girl that I do not know tomorrow; only three hours, but I have somewhere else I should probably be for the last one of them.  I knew this when I said I would work for her.  The realization was that even seemingly minor decisions like this one can have a life long impact on the turn </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106532474502482866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106532474502482866' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106532474502482866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106532474502482866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/10/today-i-had-very-strange-realization.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106524282727891895</id><published>2003-10-04T20:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-10-04T20:47:07.320-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Homecoming actually felt like it, finally.  I went back to JM for the football game and I could have hardly wished for a better experience.  Stunning, really, I spent most of it by the fence by myself.  I shivered a whole lot, but it was the sincere shivering, not the "hmm, I think I am a bit chilled" shiver that is gone as soon as it arrives, no, no.  This was the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106524282727891895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106524282727891895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106524282727891895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106524282727891895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/10/homecoming-actually-felt-like-it.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106485231607998039</id><published>2003-09-29T11:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-09-29T11:20:46.633-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Here are a fewFall HaikuFor you(Dear Grandma, here's orange cheeks for you.  Love, Willy)Today I sniffleAnd blow my nose a whole lot Red nose like Rudolph -- BenDaniels2112 Puddles on the street Where were you two months ago Wet rain cold and rainy -- Rmc2fc Summer shrinking fast To late dawn and early duskAutumn growing back -- Dkmchan I am so glad that it is fall.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106485231607998039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106485231607998039' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106485231607998039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106485231607998039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/09/here-are-few-fall-haiku-for-you-dear.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106402987037657387</id><published>2003-09-19T22:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-09-19T22:51:09.796-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ahoy, avast, and ARRRRrrrr mateys!  I hope that all of ya's actively participated in 'International Talk like a Pirate Day'.  If ye didn't then I swear by Blackbeard's (umm...) beard that I'll have the lot of yer scurvy hides walkin' me plank if I catches wind of it, savy?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106402987037657387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106402987037657387' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106402987037657387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106402987037657387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/09/ahoy-avast-and-arrrrrrrr-mateys-i-hope.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106402827966059400</id><published>2003-09-19T22:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-09-19T22:24:39.443-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Wowzas.  How fast the weeks can fly.  Mikey and I were speaking a few whiles back about whom in the dorm would be whom in Lewis Caroll's "Through the Looking Glass".  He would be the mouse (twinkle, twinkle, little bat...)  and I would probably best fit Alice.  I definately feel as though I have fallen into wonderland, a whirl of new experiences and opportunities that I am for once taking, and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106402827966059400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106402827966059400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106402827966059400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106402827966059400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/09/wowzas.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106287714397042009</id><published>2003-09-06T14:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-09-06T14:39:03.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A new equation I discovered for myself over the past two weeks is thus: sleep (or the state of being well rested)= happiness.  I have found that when I am not well rested, I enter into a very unhappy relm, thereby creating a very unhappy aura and in doing such, making others unhappy too, (I think).  Either that or they just do not notice, which is the more likely case, or maybe they do notice, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106287714397042009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106287714397042009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106287714397042009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106287714397042009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/09/new-equation-i-discovered-for-myself.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106220975820367204</id><published>2003-08-29T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-29T21:16:45.006-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>" I think part of the difficulty is that there isn't yet a good theory of quantum gravity."  -Craig Wiegert</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106220975820367204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106220975820367204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220975820367204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220975820367204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/i-think-part-of-difficulty-is-that.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106220961525804546</id><published>2003-08-29T21:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-29T21:13:49.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>vir·tu·al    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (vûrch-l)adj. Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name: the virtual extinction of the buffalo. Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text. Computer Science. Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106220961525804546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106220961525804546' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220961525804546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220961525804546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/virtual-p-pronunciation-key-vrch-l-adj.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106220945637781740</id><published>2003-08-29T21:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-29T21:10:56.406-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>One week down.  I think that this will be and excellent adventure.  Not this blog, but this school year.  I have some big decisions to make (some foreseen and some otherwise).  We'll just have to wait and see how that all goes (keep your fingers crossed ladys and germs).  Should prove... fun? entertaining? exhilerating? entrancing? enticing? extremely rockin'?  One can only hope.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106220945637781740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106220945637781740' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220945637781740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106220945637781740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/one-week-down.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106160045966786489</id><published>2003-08-22T20:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-22T20:00:59.733-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I feel like I have been an uninformed participant in a frighteningly well orchestrated magic trick.  It is like I have not really moved from where I was two weeks ago, but someone snatched the 'table cloth of time' from right beneith my feet and I only now am just feeling the resulting tremor that the dishes must feel.  It is fairly unsettling, how fast I did not really notice time going past, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106160045966786489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106160045966786489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106160045966786489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106160045966786489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/i-feel-like-i-have-been-uninformed.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106143217710265743</id><published>2003-08-20T21:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-22T19:48:17.990-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The other day at work I played a modified version of hide-and-seek with two rambunctious youngsters.  I made no effort to muffle my giggles, fore it had been so long since the last time I had laughed like that.  I wanted to remember what it sounded like, and to reassure myself that it was real, because these two girls could hardly have chosen a more opportune time to play, it was just all too </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106143217710265743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106143217710265743' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106143217710265743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106143217710265743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/other-day-at-work-i-played-modified.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106091272321945031</id><published>2003-08-14T20:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-14T21:03:11.270-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I do not want any more answers.  I want a question.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106091272321945031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106091272321945031' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106091272321945031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106091272321945031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/i-do-not-want-any-more-answers.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-1060911566027096</id><published>2003-08-14T20:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-14T20:43:54.283-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>so this is what I am reduced to.  I need a change, and school can only start none too soon.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/1060911566027096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=1060911566027096' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/1060911566027096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/1060911566027096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/so-this-is-what-i-am-reduced-to.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106090489448187610</id><published>2003-08-14T18:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-14T18:52:43.720-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>LXXI.No longer mourn for me when I am deadThen you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:Nay, if you read this line, remember notThe hand that writ it; for I love you soThat I in your sweet thoughts would be forgotIf thinking on me then should make you woe.O, if, I say, you look upon this verseWhen I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106090489448187610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106090489448187610' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106090489448187610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106090489448187610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/lxxi.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-106053593022040284</id><published>2003-08-10T12:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-10T12:18:50.210-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Surprise surprise, I survived the BWCAW.  There and almost back but gone again.  I think that I have been away from home for about three weeks, or at least that is what it will be when I finally return tomorrow, and I do not know if I have ever been more ready for it.  I only have thirteen days (a week and then almost a week) before I go back to school, and I find it challenging to not utterly </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/106053593022040284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=106053593022040284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106053593022040284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/106053593022040284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/surprise-surprise-i-survived-bwcaw.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105984825356486145</id><published>2003-08-02T13:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-02T13:17:33.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Happy second day of August to you all!  Two of my roses are blooming and the college search is becoming more frantic (in other words, I started looking for more of them yesterday, do you know how few colleges in the midwest have decent astrophysics, astronomy/physics programs?...because I would sure like to, it would make my part of this whole business easier...), so I especially hate to leave, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105984825356486145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105984825356486145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105984825356486145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105984825356486145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/happy-second-day-of-august-to-you-all.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105976121809352592</id><published>2003-08-01T13:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-02T13:12:37.590-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Right-o then, I just recently arrived home from my South Dakota travels with only (hardly) enough time to do a bit of typing (seen here) and unpacking to be followed by repacking and bay bread cooking, fore tomorrow I am off to do more repacking (with Lisa and Claire) before we leave for our little excursion to the boundry waters on Sunday.  I am looking forward to putting off more things until </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105976121809352592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105976121809352592' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105976121809352592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105976121809352592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/right-o-then-i-just-recently-arrived.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105976011006313877</id><published>2003-08-01T12:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-08-01T12:48:30.110-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This one goes out to John Hanson, a crazycool cat who undoubtedly knows where it's at.A Pretty Good BeginningBright Hopes Come TrueAs We Walk DowntownSmiling And Laughing HappilyFriendship And Exhaustion CollideWe Celebrate The DayA  Two Year WaitA Distant Dream Is BornWe Eat And Drink Til We’re FullAnd Pay For OurselvesWith Everything We Have For The DayWe Sit Down ExcitedListen </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105976011006313877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105976011006313877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105976011006313877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105976011006313877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/08/this-one-goes-out-to-john-hanson.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105897166761348976</id><published>2003-07-23T09:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-23T09:47:47.613-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>well all of ya's, it is off into the great wide world (South Dakota baby, YEAH), that is, we will be off just as soon as we get everything in order (in other words, not until sometime [much] later this afternoon).  I do not know how accessable the world wide web will be for me where I am going, but I will try my darndest to at least post as often as possible...  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105897166761348976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105897166761348976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105897166761348976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105897166761348976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/well-all-of-yas-it-is-off-into-great.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105897118878836690</id><published>2003-07-23T09:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-30T22:16:31.360-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> And true love waitsIn haunted atticsAnd true love livesOn lollipops and crispsJust don't leaveDon't leave-radiohead</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105897118878836690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105897118878836690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105897118878836690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105897118878836690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/and-true-love-waits-in-haunted-attics.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105864678921541182</id><published>2003-07-19T15:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-19T15:33:09.266-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>connie, I hope you read this, because I do not have any other way to contact you.  I am going to shoot the katemiester an email and such asking for your address and such, but I thought that it would probably be faster if you emailed me with your contact information.  In other news, I just purchased my first very own tent.  It spaciously sleeps two (and I do not think that three would be a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105864678921541182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105864678921541182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105864678921541182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105864678921541182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/connie-i-hope-you-read-this-because-i.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105832569293461223</id><published>2003-07-15T22:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-03-26T00:05:40.966-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I was sad to discover that it only took about three times for me to become immune to the 'sudden drop, heart-in-throat-stomach-taking-the-heart's-place' feeling that I had initially gotten from the 'Wild Thing'.  Almost disappointing, but considering the insane-take-your-money-and-run admission fee, I could not afford to not have the time of my life.  Which was not had anyway, but I tried.  I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105832569293461223/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105832569293461223' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105832569293461223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105832569293461223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105806967555884017</id><published>2003-07-12T23:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-12T23:21:05.850-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>how quickly a slow week can pass.  "do we care?"  "oh yes, of course you do."  "I suppose it is good to be reminded sometimes..."one can try to forget for so long, but after a few long whiles one forgets to forget, and then everything to be forgotten slowly fades, only to be rejuvinated (reconstituted) by unexpected reminders or some such memory sparking hoopla.so really, why bother?to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105806967555884017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105806967555884017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105806967555884017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105806967555884017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/how-quickly-slow-week-can-pass.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105763913713649754</id><published>2003-07-07T23:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-07T23:38:57.180-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I view room-rearranging/cleaning/goingthroughpracticallyeverythingyouown as turning over a new (and dusty beyond all reason) leaf.  It leaves me, when all is said and done with a feeling of vague satisfaction, but more over, a feeling of anticipation for the mess that is to come, only to be cleaned up next summer.  But that will be a years worth of clutter; memories, letters, photos, poems, books</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105763913713649754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105763913713649754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105763913713649754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105763913713649754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/i-view-room-rearrangingcleaninggoingth.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105763806383164004</id><published>2003-07-07T23:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-07T23:21:03.890-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>do you ever not feel like you?  or maybe do you ever not feel like feeling like you?  that is the best way to describe my summer thus far.  not like it has been a bad thing necessarily, but it has just been weird like that.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105763806383164004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105763806383164004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105763806383164004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105763806383164004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/do-you-ever-not-feel-like-you-or-maybe.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105746535695595262</id><published>2003-07-05T23:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-03-26T00:06:52.793-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>If I were to take a dark skinned lover, I would buy him golden brown bed clothes.  This way, when we would make love it would be my toasted marshmallow melting into his milk chocolate and we would be complimented perfectly, held together but not overwhelmed, by his graham cracker sheets.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105746535695595262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105746535695595262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105746535695595262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105746535695595262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105729617298849358</id><published>2003-07-04T00:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-04T00:22:53.116-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>and my country tis of theeto take shots at each other on prime time tvwhy don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun'cause we'll never live long enough toundo everything they've done to youundo everything they've done to youthey caught the last poor man flying away in a shiny red capeand they brought him down to the stationand they said "boy you should know betterthan to try and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105729617298849358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105729617298849358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105729617298849358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105729617298849358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/and-my-country-tis-of-thee-to-take.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105703641958855524</id><published>2003-07-01T00:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-07-01T00:14:15.286-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>hmm, 17 years and a little more than a day, so long and yet so short a time.  Amazing how the seconds tic by, but wait for sixty of them and you already have got yourself a minute, and then after waiting for merely sixty of them you have (or more like have no longer) got an hour and if you wait for 24 of them, that gives you a day already and then after only seven of them, you wind up with a week</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105703641958855524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105703641958855524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105703641958855524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105703641958855524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/07/hmm-17-years-and-little-more-than-day.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105670177996908449</id><published>2003-06-27T03:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-27T03:16:19.996-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I am not so much a social person; I am simply curious.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105670177996908449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105670177996908449' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105670177996908449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105670177996908449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/i-am-not-so-much-social-person-i-am.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105660646092417721</id><published>2003-06-26T00:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-26T00:47:40.810-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Hell Yeahlife is a b movieit's stupid and it's strangea directionless story and the dialogue is lamebut in the he said she saidsometimes there's some poetryif you turn your back long enoughand let it happen naturallyoh, yeahhell yeahi got a face like a limp handshakehair like an accident scenei've been waking up slowlysavoring the same old dreamand somewhere betweenthe folds of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105660646092417721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105660646092417721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105660646092417721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105660646092417721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/hell-yeah-life-is-b-movie-its-stupid.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105638783084047033</id><published>2003-06-23T12:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-23T12:03:50.813-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>CRIMSONCRIMSON is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold,Gray is the ash that stiffens and covers all silent the fire.(A great man I know is dead and while he lies in his     coffin a gone flame I sit here in cumbering shadows     and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.)     -Carl SandburgTWOMEMORY of you is . . . a blue spear of flower.I cannot remember the name of it.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105638783084047033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105638783084047033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105638783084047033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105638783084047033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/crimson-crimson-is-slow-smolder-of.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105626021564752655</id><published>2003-06-22T00:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-22T00:37:19.860-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>um, yeah, so, huh, I guess it has, well, been a while.  but I guess 'that kind of thing happens when you're with me' sortofkindof in any case...happy first (well, second, actually) day of summer.this one goes out to all of you who live backwards:"Age Six Racer"So long sweet summer,I stumbled upon you and gracefully basked in your rays.So long sweet slumber.I fell into you now you're </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105626021564752655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105626021564752655' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105626021564752655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105626021564752655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/um-yeah-so-huh-i-guess-it-has-well.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105552235949897659</id><published>2003-06-13T11:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-13T11:39:19.373-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Note to self:  when having to say 'goodbye' be as late as possible. (as in be running late so all one has time for is a big hug, maybe a little tearing up, and a "I'll call you when I get there")</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105552235949897659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105552235949897659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105552235949897659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105552235949897659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/note-to-self-when-having-to-say.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105548582885130947</id><published>2003-06-13T01:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-13T11:34:37.583-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>but sentiments like shadows growoh so longguess i gotta godon't get updon't cryit's really very simplejust kiss my cheek and say goodbyei never really go anywhere anywayi just pass through from time to timebye bye babybaby bye byemaybe i'll see younext time i'm in townmaybe when i'm throughfalling off the face of the earthi'll come back aroundyou know i love to come back around</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105548582885130947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105548582885130947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105548582885130947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105548582885130947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/but-sentiments-like-shadows-grow-oh-so.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105540143632635558</id><published>2003-06-12T02:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-12T13:58:07.160-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>'What day is it?'  I have asked that question more that I would like to admit in the past six days and usually am still surprised with the answer.  "Time is for dragonflys and angels: the former live too little and the latter live too long"  - The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105540143632635558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105540143632635558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105540143632635558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105540143632635558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/what-day-is-it-i-have-asked-that.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105531245656516736</id><published>2003-06-11T01:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-11T01:21:04.466-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>For all of you traveling to France, (or those of you who will visit there at one point or another in your lives) watch for falling tourists (generally of the suicidal persuasion)!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105531245656516736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105531245656516736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105531245656516736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105531245656516736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/for-all-of-you-traveling-to-france-or.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105530759664929104</id><published>2003-06-10T23:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-11T00:02:08.103-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>[insert sentimental ditherings about saying 'see you not-very-soon' to true friends and how unpleasent it is here]</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105530759664929104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105530759664929104' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105530759664929104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105530759664929104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/insert-sentimental-ditherings-about.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105518894894466416</id><published>2003-06-09T15:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-09T15:03:10.910-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I really dislike mowing the lawn.  Nosomuch because it is tedious, or because it requires more than a little bit of effort, and I must say that I truly enjoy the outside aspect of it.  The part that ruins the whole thing for me is that I feel like I am (or could be, at least) destroying many creatures homes/selves.  That has always (and probably always will) bothered me.  That and the noise </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105518894894466416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105518894894466416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105518894894466416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105518894894466416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/i-really-dislike-mowing-lawn.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105510378011882718</id><published>2003-06-08T15:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-08T15:24:43.436-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through The Looking-Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday--the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight--the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105510378011882718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105510378011882718' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105510378011882718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105510378011882718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/of-all-strange-things-that-alice-saw.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105503272317602927</id><published>2003-06-07T19:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-07T19:38:43.923-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I can hardly wait for the ACTs next weekend.  Today, Hill and I had a crazyrockin'sweetlesbianlovemaking time with the SATs and we will be doing it all again (in spirit at least... tear) with the ACTs.  It is amazingly easy to convince yourself of somethings sometimes.  Unfortunately not all things most of the time, but you know, what fun would that be anyway?  I belive that a firm grip on one's </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105503272317602927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105503272317602927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105503272317602927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105503272317602927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/i-can-hardly-wait-for-acts-next.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105496227912784844</id><published>2003-06-07T00:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-06-07T00:05:00.440-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>wow, amazing how good time can fly.  I had a really great time tonight (back home, met up with the Con-miester to pick up some goods [you know, 'goods'] {actually just her calculator for the, drumroll please, SAT that I am taking today! Da da!} and while Hill [here with me because she is taking the, wait for it, SAT today as well, and in the same location, so it follows] Connie and myself were </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105496227912784844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105496227912784844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105496227912784844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105496227912784844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/06/wow-amazing-how-good-time-can-fly.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105441493161324689</id><published>2003-05-31T16:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-05-31T16:07:36.890-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I guess you live and learn (if you are paying attention), you make different choices the next time around, but you also have to consider that people change and that you change as well.I tried to post some Langston Hughes on thursday, but apparently that fell through.  But now I know that I was doing something wrong.  Guess and check was, however, never my problem-solving-technique-of-choice (de</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105441493161324689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105441493161324689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105441493161324689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105441493161324689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/05/i-guess-you-live-and-learn-if-you-are.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105404519314301688</id><published>2003-05-27T09:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-05-27T09:19:53.530-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>there are so many tictocclocks everywhere telling peoplewhat toctic time it is fortictic instance five toc minutes tocpast six ticSpring is not regulated and doesnot get out of order nor do its hands a little jerking moveover numbers slowly                                    we do notwind it up it has no weightssprings wheels inside of its slender self no indeed dearnothing of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105404519314301688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105404519314301688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105404519314301688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105404519314301688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/05/there-are-so-many-tictoc-clocks.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105400855339091534</id><published>2003-05-26T23:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-05-26T23:30:35.640-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I guess I was not supposed to post the splendid little paragraph that I had just spent a good, oh, half hour on.  Story of my life, what can I say.  Let me tell you though, it was great.  And then it was dessert for my mutt  computer (nothing against mutts, mind you, but quite 'litterally' my computer is probably part everything but mac).  Oh well, I will have to let bygones be bygones and maybe </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105400855339091534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105400855339091534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105400855339091534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105400855339091534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/05/i-guess-i-was-not-supposed-to-post.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105392603609071778</id><published>2003-05-26T00:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-05-26T00:16:18.650-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Please never resist the urge to catnap; stretch out in the sun and simply soak up the solar energy.  Thaw, not melt.  Also, enjoy old people while you can.  Always put in the effort to see your favorite flowers, even if you are uncertain if they are blooming or not.  It is worth it, especially if it is nice out.  Siblings and friends make the greatest pillows, and are also good for leaning (on).</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105392603609071778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105392603609071778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105392603609071778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105392603609071778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/05/please-never-resist-urge-to-catnap.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424481.post-105384175528828556</id><published>2003-05-25T00:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-05-25T10:39:12.043-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Preludeinto the strenuous briefnessLife:handorgans and Aprildarkness,friendsi charge laughing.Into the hair-thin tintsof yellow dawn,into the women-coloured twilighti smilinglyglide.   Iinto the big vermillion departureswim,sayingly;(Do you think?)thei do,worldis probably madeof roses &amp; hello:(of solongs and,ashes)- e.e cummings</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/feeds/105384175528828556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5424481&amp;postID=105384175528828556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105384175528828556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5424481/posts/default/105384175528828556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivyqueenofsheeba.blogspot.com/2003/05/prelude-into-strenuous-briefness-life.html' title=''/><author><name>bethany</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
