I know a lot of you guys are into Steampunk, so check this out and help the zoo ( Read more... )

Okay, not much of one, but I want to celebrate anyways. Ben has been wanting to go to Kabul for a long time and I really want to try their yummy eggplant dish again. SO, I was thinking this sunday evening we could go and have great food! Woot ( Read more... )

Boo ( Read more... )

Ben is no longer a productive member of society ;)

I'm enrolled in the UCLA/Kent Ostia, Italy Archy field school program for August 16-September 19 2009. You should think about going too!

Here's the blog one of the friends I spent tuesday night. Although her cell's vids are kinda grainy and blurry, they capture the spontaneity and excitement that was growing on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of Obama's victory:

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Once McCain was on the screen we could hear people outside yelling so we ran out into the streets and this is what we ( Read more... )

Someone I know from TN just found out that her cat, which she has had for many many years, does not have much longer to live. This makes me incredibly sad. (is it wrong that I feel more sorry for her because of that than because her mother died yesterday? I have trouble caring too much when humans die, I guess)

I think I'm going to try to catch Battle in Seattle (new movie about the WTO riots) sometime this weekend or monday, depending on Ben's work schedule. Is anyone else interested in watching it with us?

Ben very very very nearly dumped a bottle of wasabi on my cooling pie. The pie is fine, but I am trying not to be mad. =/

Since my free time shall be dying soon when classes start back up, I figured I should cook. Late last week I made a beef pot roast. I then used the left-over beef to make two batches of beef-potato-cheddar perogies to freeze for easy meals (totaling about 60). Yesterday I made potato soup. Tonight I am baking a pumpkin pie. I plan on baking ( Read more... )