Dear Forever 21,

The fact that your plus-size mannequins are my size- maybe sliiiiightly bigger- kind of disturbs me.

Kthx,
Daria

One of my favorite ways to pass a few minutes is to amuse myself by reading some of the crazy cookbook reviews on Amazon. They're usually not as all-out vicious as YouTube comments can be, but sometimes I just shake my head ( Read more... )

I know so many people who are making themselves miserable. Want to smack them as I might, I haven't yet committed battery. *sigh ( Read more... )

I took the night off from prison to deal with our basement, which has been utterly befouled by the cats. Andrew had been doing box-cleaning duty as of late, and (reasonably) assumed that the damp floor on either end of the basement was caused by the small amounts of water that sometimes seep in from the ground ( Read more... )

Just before- perhaps just after- I moved to Princeton, a boy with whom I'd attended middle school set fire to his church. The church (Greek Orthodox, and incidentally the first Orthodox parish that I'd ever entered) suffered over $1 million in damages. My parents were disgusted, and I think we all assumed that George would be summarily banned from ( Read more... )

Looking forward to tomorrow; it's a weird statement to make about a Monday, but I've grown enamored of my weekday gym schedule. 10 hours a week sounds like more than it is. I'm hoping to work up to 12, which is to say that I'd add one weekend day. If getting up in the mornings were easier for me, I'd commit to Saturdays, but I do love my sleep. Urg ( Read more... )

I've been thinking often about my late friend Tom. Tonight, I went over to his LJ (lj user="sufitom"> and read some random entries. I found myself grieving for him again. I felt a strong urge to leave comments; my brain tells me that he can't read them anymore, but my heart thinks that perhaps he can ( Read more... )

My parents have made their hotel reservations for the Memorial Day pilgrimage to St. Tikhon's. I'm thrilled that they're able to make it again this year! I'm reminded that I need to make our own lodging reservations tomorrow.

I look forward to this all year- can't wait!

"Recently, shortly after Easter, I attended a memorial service during which long lists of individual names were read. Usually it is a monotonous and tiring process, but this time, while the names were read, the choir kept singing Easter hymns, very quietly, over and over again. Such a practice is not prescribed by the church rubrics, yet it was ( Read more... )