A shiny nickel and a cookie to the first person who can explain to me why this is so goddamned irritating to me.

Oh, and I got married. FYI.

Whoa, where have I been ( Read more... )

So, this is a day late, but the brouhaha over the 30th anniversary of the passing of Elvis pinged a brain cell. When I went off to college, my dorm opened for move in on August 17th. Being the overly zealous Aggie Freshman, I convinced my Mom to drive us down the day before so we could be ready for move in bright and early Sunday morning. We ( Read more... )

Every cat toy we own is designed to, in some way, elicit the predator response from our cats. Why is it, then, that when we have an actual REAL LIVE MOUSE that needs killing/maiming/eviction, the cats stare at it, like "Durhey... that one's movin' on it's own!" and are completely ineffectual at the single skill that is the ONE REASON they are ( Read more... )

...but can I just say, I love the internets? And Battlestar Galactica... I'm in the throes of passion for it as well.

Now, even after reading through the Jedi Chef's website, I STILL don't know what they're about, but I do know that they are the source of this image:

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As I drove by the library today, a little ball of fluff bounced out into the road by my car. I stopped, and found the bouncing fluff was actually a fledging Cardinal baby. Very effing cute. Anyway, I picked him up (to his mighty protests of "Fweeee!") and stuck him in the low branches of a fir tree where I figure he has a far smaller chance of ( Read more... )

Things that are hard:
Writing.
Science.
High School.

Things that are REALLY FUCKING HARD:
Writing about science for high schoolers ( Read more... )

I guess she was just too punk rock for this world.

...Three SEPARATE people told me that I looked "tired," "haggard," or "harried" today. Fuck you, world, that is code for "old".

Indeed.