pete came to visit! i went and picked him up from the airport thursday night and he just went home this evening. during his stay we went to nyc with liz and trina to see world/inferno, hit up the goshen agricultural fair, watched hours of alton brown, ate at golden palace, visited the emus, played at veterans' and judson, watched the big white, and ( Read more... )

( to momentarily save my brain from a puzzle chris showed me that is eating it )

the fort is now one of the most comfortable places in the house, due to the advent of the new air conditioner that's whirring away in my window right now. unfortunately there main thing to do in my nice cool room is lie and lounge, and that combined with the aversion to stepping out of it and moving at all in the 90-something-degree weather means i ( Read more... )

( killing time )

after not being able to sleep until about 6 am, i woke up at about 11 this morning to what sounded like firecrackers going off somewhere near my window. i was rolling over and attempting to go back to sleep when my mom frantically yelled JOANNA GET UP AND OUT OF THE GUEST ROOM; THE POWER LINE OUTSIDE JUST FELL ON THE HOUSE! i stumbled out and was ( Read more... )

so i haven't written in a while, mostly because i either wasn't doing anything worth writing about or because my laptop caught a nasty virus. that took a week and a half of inventing creative ways to try to delete it before my dad stumbled across a panda antivirus program and jokingly suggested it because of my love for the critters. and what do ( Read more... )

( you probably won't find this terrifying, but trust us, it was. )

i just got back from another crosstown night walk with liz. this one started out sociable, became silly, turned somewhat adventurous, and then ended just terrifyingly. seriously, terrifying. actual details will be posted later, but right now i'm too busy drinking until i can relax enough to sleep. yeesh.

about two hours ago my sister and i were sitting in the living room watching the daily show when i noticed something out of the corner of my eye - something small moving on the floor that at first glance i thought was a mouse. but what i thought was a mouse tail pulled back towards its body and i realized it was a frog that was not hopping, but ( Read more... )

from last weekend's world inferno show:
see if you can find me amidst the claws!

( a hint, if you really need it )