Today is a day of transitioning. Look at that; making a word that's not a verb into one. There's a word for that, but it escapes me now. No nerd trivia for you today. Anyway, the transitionation is taking form in my subject line and icon choices. I've been using icons from The Office, and am transitioning to my holiday icons with the sugary ( Read more... )

So, Michael Mukasey will be sworn in as our new attorney general today after his nomination was approved by the Senate in a 53-40 vote. Yes, the same Michael Mukasey who doesn't know if waterboarding is torture, and said during his confirmation hearings that there are some U.S. laws that the president doesn't have to obey. Fine. I've learned ( Read more... )

Do you remember late last year when I finally received my college diploma? Well, it was on 1 December 2006; I looked it up. Thankfully I don't write often, because that could have taken much longer than it did. It's official. At some point during the last 11 months I've lost my diploma. I have the little folder thing that houses the diploma, ( Read more... )

As of this evening I've totally given up on the idea of becoming a vegetarian. I ate red meat today for the first time in a long while, and I attacked it like it was talking shit about my mama. Graw graw!

Because worked sucked today, I need something to make me smile:

And you thought this story would go away.
Flamingo in a box.

A few things before bed. I just started and finished a great, interesting book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's the story of a timid, odd kid's first year of high school, and it's full of all the angsty things which come with that territory; quite literally: sex, drugs and rock and roll . . . and suicide and abortion. All the good stuff. ( Read more... )

( Funny. If you're a fan of Lost. )

Because there's isn't any real news in my personal life:

Something about this just doesn't seem right.

I'm not quite sure I understand this, but I know it's dirty.

I want to poo in space.

Wanted: a person (male or female) to accompany me (Brett) to the movies for a showing of one of the following films:
The Bourne Ultimatum, I love these movies.
Superbad, written by Seth Rogen and starring Michael Cera from Arrested Development!; opens in a few weeks ( Read more... )

In case you were wondering, Elizabeth I is my all-time favorite (favourite?) European monarch.