I'm unpacked, and mostly settled in, apart from the hanging of posters and getting my car registered and driver's license changed, and other similar bureaucratic matters ( Read more... )

Around nine-thirty this (Saturday) morning, I got a call from H, telling me that Layla had just died.  When she woke up, Layla was too weak to stand.  H took her to the car, and Layla let out three yelps and it was over.  Part of me is glad she went quickly, but I worry she may have been in pain towards the end.  She seemed in fairly good spirits ( Read more... )

I happened to be on CNN.com this evening, and noticed little t-shirt icons next to some of their headlines.  Click it, and it takes you to a page where you can get that headline on a t-shirt, with a time stamp of when you saw it on their website ( Read more... )

I finally joined Netflix.  Not that that's remarkable in and of itself, but I've typically been a late adopter in new consumer technology.  It's not so much Luddism as indifference.  I was probably the last of my friends to get a cell phone, and still don't get what the big deal about HDTV is.  You can see freckles and just how much makeup TV ( Read more... )

Things I noticed downtown that reconfirm my need to get out of the South ( Read more... )

This evening when I was paying for my movie ticket, I found a five pound note in my wallet.  The end.

Apologies in advance for an illucidity below ( Read more... )

Dear Self ( Read more... )

What a long strange few years it's been.  2007 was second worst year of my life.  Granted, it would be hard to top 2001, what with the appendicitis and all that ensued.  If told seven years ago what was going to happen in my life I would never have believed it.  Of course the world going insane thing was kind of hard to see coming. 
Here's to a ( Read more... )

has anyone else found it odd that when writing about a literary work, everything is in the present. It's like it all happens at once.
Maybe I need more sleep.