I have to say, when I got into the car to drive home for lunch, I was not even remotely expecting to hear the following on the radio: same-sex marriage is expected to be legal in North Carolina by the end of the week ( Read more... )

Have to say, wasn't particularly a fan of today; I'm definitely glad I didn't waste my lucky shirt on it. But aside from a mild setback (paycheck-related, not job-related; oh, the perils of an incentive-based paycheck) at work, it wasn't bad, just meh. Our sick cat seems to be feeling a bit better, so yay that ( Read more... )

Could I bribe anyone into joining my fantasy hockey league? I'm offering fic as prizes this year, so. HOCKEY. (Provisionally drafting Sunday ( Read more... )

Recently we started watching the new documentary on the Roosevelts, and something reminded me of The Jungle, which it turns out Mom hasn't read. I'm prereading it for her (and rereading it for me), and so much of it feels so contemporary in a way it didn't even a few years ago ( Read more... )

I reread Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire this weekend, and SO GLAD I read them back-to-back because I completely missed that Verity's Engel was Rose's Anna. Now I want to know what Maddie does when she finds out. (I have lots of Thoughts on this ( Read more... )

I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy with my brother and his girlfriend; Groot was totally my favorite, and I am curious about how they wind up on Earth. Not my favorite, but it was really funny.

The whole thing really reminded me of Farscape in so many ways; parts of it felt kind of like I'd seen them before ( Read more... )

Today I wore my splendid new Drouin Mooseheads shirsey and enjoyed it so much I plan to wear it again tomorrow ( Read more... )

The problem with things going pretty well in my life is that my brain feels this bizarre need to create a crisis to which to respond. While this is mostly a good thing, even manufactured panic still feels like panic ( Read more... )

Sign of being overtired: confusing the words meditation and masturbation.

(Though now I wonder how often they can be substituted without appreciably altering the substance of the text.)

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In honour of due South, I'm experimenting with adding "kindly" to my expressions of thanks. It's an adventure, but considering how frequently I use "perchance" it's not like anyone who deals with me much doesn't know my English is not of the regional standard ( Read more... )