Ow.

[agilebrit]

Snorting mocha out one's nose is painful.

Several groups trying to re-ignite New England's faith are theologically conservative, such as the Southern Baptists, Presbyterian Church in America and the Conservative Baptists' Mission Northeast. They say a reason for the region's hollowed-out faith is a pervasive theology that departs from traditional Biblical interpretation on issues such as the divinity of Jesus, the exclusivity of Christianity as a path to salvation and homosexuality.

Via supergee at cranky_editors, who got it via Yahoo.

And this is why you can have my serial comma when you pry it from my cold, dead keyboard.

In other news, had a productive meeting with my Writing Buddy last night. I really need to get myself back on track vis Janni's part in this whole thing, and I need to flesh out the middle of the end as well. I think I have too much there there, and not enough there in other places, and I've not dealt with the wreckage of Ben's psyche as well as I need to, because there's stuff that came up in the prison that needs to come up again on the yacht. Seriously, I don't think you get over wanting to die as much as Ben wanted to die in a day just because your circumstances change. Even if it's a big change.

It's sitting at just over 123K right now. This is bad. This is very, very bad. I'm going to have to take a chainsaw to it...