Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Lights out, head on pillow ... and suddenly desiring to play bottleneck lap-dulcimer. Ah, the random firing of neurons, and the patterns emerging therefrom. But I have no dulcimer and this thought is probably just a sign of how much I really ought to be sleeping anyhow.

The mandolin is in the bed; maybe I'll play myself to sleep with that.

"Marriage's health depends far less on society's preference for heterosexuality over homosexuality than on society's preference for marriage over non-marriage, and we must now choose between those two preferences." -- Jonathan Rauch (of the Brookings Institution), "Family's Value" (requires login; try bugmenot.com), New Republic, 2005-05-25 (quote appears on second page of article, link is to first page)