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As a morale-building measure (or at least a distraction), my work husbands and I have been taking turns cooking for each other once a week or so.  It's my turn Monday and they asked for tiramisu.  I used to watch my mom make it and it didn't look that hard, and I am following the recipe without improvising even a little bit, so why am I on my THIRD ( Read more... )

I got these hilariously awkward frames in the mail a couple of weeks ago, and now they have my prescription in them.

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It was a heinous enough week that I am sitting here now drinking wine out of a mug and watching Venture Brothers.  You know the situation's not desperate because I haven't busted out Hudson Hawk.  Still, it's pretty dire. The mug has that Sartre quote on it.

Confession: I left my Christmas decorations up.  I don't know if I will take them down at ( Read more... )

OH FUCK

Seriously.  This whole Obama-as-pop-culture-muse thing brings me joy I didn't know was possible, but also boundless confusion.  What is the deal with all the Obama merch, and how long is this engine going to keep chugging?

PS my favorite are the tables and tables of tearfully sincere and terribly bad portraits of Obama (variations: in front ( Read more... )

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What a ludicrous week at work.  Every time my boss goes to China the prep time is stressful - creating and confirming a detailed itinerary, making sure all contacts are up to date, triple-checking with IT that all his various techie toys will work properly and seamlessly, applying for a new visa should his latest one have expired - but this time, ( Read more... )