I'm buying a house.

Well. We're buying a house, which is nice because I can foist most of the phone tag duties off on Ricky on the grounds that he's actually allowed to make personal calls at work. Real estate is cheap as hell in this area, we have a good chunk of money in the bank and between the housing market and that 10% government rebate, there ( Read more... )

Okay, you know what? I'm an adult. I have an education, a driver's license, a car, an apartment, and a full-time job that I don't hate and am not in any immediate danger of losing. I'm healthy, I have no drug addictions or criminal record. I have good credit. I love my husband and I don't have any serious family problems ( Read more... )

This requires no commentary. What a fucking incredible performance.

So, um, yeah. God, I'm glad I didn't have to work today. My job's right down the street from the Civic Center. I used to live two blocks away. My cousins go to the high school that was locked down.

Fucking hell, what's the matter with people?

You know, when you have a job that requires you to be up at seven every morning and no social life to speak of, it really shouldn't be that hard to get in the habit of being in bed before three AM.

I'm so tired that I'm hallucinating things out of the corners of my eyes. I'm half tempted to keep doing this just to see how far I can take it.

I got into the graduate program at Syracuse! I am happy!

Now I'm going to go remedy the fact that I've had about fifteen hours of sleep, total, this week.

This just made a thought coalesce for me.

So, basically, daphnep  is ranting about reproductions of famous sculptures/art that are tweaked to conform to modern (insane) standards of beauty. And looking at the reproductions side-by-side with the originals, I realized why modern beauty standards are so ridiculous. The reproductions have been slimmed to a ( Read more... )

Meme stolen from somewhere.

Post three of your favorite movies and three of your least favorite movies, and list why you love/hate them. These don't have to be Oscar winners, just movies you liked.

Three Movies I Hate, and Why

Interview with the Vampire
I just don't get this. It's got a cast of competent actors and is based on a very good book, and yet ( Read more... )

You know what drives me nuts? Diet commercials that talk about how such-and-such program was so great for 'managing hunger'. Guess what? There's already a pretty well-proven way of managing hunger, and you don't even have to send in money to the starvation industry to try it out.

It's called food.

Seriously, except in really rare cases, people get ( Read more... )

You know you live in upstate New York when it's twelve degrees out and that seems warm, because your face doesn't go numb between the house and the car.