5:55 AM flight with a 4:15 taxi. Apparently the cab company managed to forget that they were supposed to pick me up so I called another number that Chris had just happened to give me. They had nobody out in the fleet that early in the morning so they sent me to Safe and Reliable Cabs. Fortunately, they did and managed to get me to the airport just ( Read more... )

Virgin burn tonight. I took the last half of Becca's second burn with her new staff. She just proposed it out of the blue. I hadn't been intending to start with staff -- I'm not that strong yet, but it was there. She says she'll give me second burn on her ropedart when it comes in too...which I should be more prepared for. Such awesome.

I saw my first albino squirrel yesterday. Three of em, even. I can now graduate happy.

So I'm not crazy. Looks like the getting healthier thing is an artifact of a carefully regulated diet. Good news is I have a diagnosis (sort of): hypofunctional galbladder (biliary dyskinesia). Bad news is that's gonna be a surgical intervention. Good news is it's common laproscopic day surgery with a few day recovery time and that complications ( Read more... )

So I follow Warren Ellis' blog. He linked to a picture from a gay pride parade of a woman with inflateable breasts. I followed the link and explored around the other pics this guy had. Well it turns out this random guy had a few albums from when he was at Oberlin this last commencement ( Read more... )

So I've been fighting off some sort of stomach(?) bug / condition on and off for the last couple of months. Since it's been strange and flaky, coming on seemingly at random and lasting for completely indeterminate amounts of time, it's made me rather antisocial. To those who I've put off seeing, my apologies. I've been doing my damnedest to either ( Read more... )

Someone's playing ride of the valkyries off in the distance as everyone piles their accumulated stuff into cars or boxes. Wonderful place this.

Today involved a conversation about how many peeps you could fit into a condom and whether the end result would still be flacid. Mostly notable for the image of walking up to a teller with five boxes of peeps and six of condoms, stacking them next to each other, noticing they were unequal and asking for another box of peeps ( Read more... )

This has been an absolutely amazing weekend. Fire and circus, people actually acting like a family - unlike anything I think I've ever experienced. This is why I love this place so much.

Housework prevents breast cancer more effectively than athletic activity or manual paid labor does, according to a study of 200,000 women.

A Swedish government study finds a "trade-off between gender equality … and public health."

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