Random Thoughts, The Fourth

Welcome, my fellow Internet-ians, to another edition of Ordinary Mer’s Random Thoughts. Just the other day, I was thinking, It’s been awhile since I wrote some random thoughts. And, of course, when life gets crazy, sometimes bullet points are all you can do. I do sometimes regret “phoning it in” with a random thoughts post, [...]

A Very Merry UnBirthday

Tomorrow is September 14th, which I had always considered my half-birthday, since it’s six months away from my real birthday in March. Then I looked up “half-birthday” on Wikipedia and apparently, the six month thing is off. In order to be precise, you’re supposed to add 182.5 days to your birthday and that day will [...]

A Bard by Any Other Name

My freshman year of high school, a particularly frightening nun / English teacher (who delighted in finding the smallest infractions in her students) would make those unlucky enough to escape her glare memorize and recite the prologue to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as part of their punishment. (This particular task was set because all of [...]