When I moved into this house a couple years ago, my landlord said I could do whatever I wanted to the yard and garden (as long as I didn't piss off the neighborhood). I appreciated this leeway, because the landlord's idea of gardening is to lay out vast plots of mulch, dotted with a few hostas marching in a rigid row. It looked like the ' ( Read more... )

-- Grade, grade, grade
-- Conference proposal, so as not to abandon flange5 (requires much reading, and probably abandoning that idea since it surely won't pan out like I hope it will -- and then coming up with new-old stuff last minute ( Read more... )

I don't know if Nino is supposed to be a dentist or a waiter in this outfit -- or maybe a dentist with a second job who mixes uniforms -- but I love the hair.


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So I am lame about forgetting my camera when I go to photogenic places -- hence no pictures from the harrowing field trip to the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. I also forgot my camera last weekend when my college friend who lives two hours away expressed an urge to visit the "Open Barn" event at a llama farm outside her town ( Read more... )

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It is really kind of silly how many times I just watched that Pocky CM. But really, how many ridiculously fabulous things can they pack into one CM ( Read more... )

I decided that when I’m not working this summer, I should try to catch up on dramas. Like, from scratch. And maybe because it’s June, I went for a super-old Nino drama, Akimahende! (1998), which I'm not exactly recommending (but maybe I was just in a bad mood all week? Maybe this actually is a decent drama?). The exclamation point is part of the ( Read more... )

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Since it seems like the only legitimate thing to do with my life at this point is to become a crazy cat lady, I have acquired two crazy cats. One of my actually decent students (she’s thirty and therefore places a bit more value on her education than the kids who never particularly liked school in the first pace but just don’t know what else to do ( Read more... )

One of my colleagues was diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency. That's how gloomy it is around here.