I've been sick for the past week with some sort of weird viral throat chest thing. Seems like half the campus is down with some sort of variation on this theme, and the flu is cropping up as well. Anyway I've done what pretty much anyone else would; take it easy, be hideously unproductive, and try and get better. This included drinking a crapload ( Read more... )

Just watched little brother go off down the driveway, on his way back up to Boston with his girlfriend and an Explorer full of audio gear and food raided from the house. And two loaves of banana bread, still warm. I love that boy, in a way and to an extent that I don't think anyone else in the world does. He's my little brother and my best friend. ( Read more... )

Okies folks, rant time. Seeing a commercial for the new Cash and Treasures show interrupted my glee at seeing Anthony Bourdain roaming through India, and dropkicked me into angry mode. Cash and Treasures (on the Travel Channel for those who haven't seen) has a premise of sending some chick in a tank top into the middle of nowhere to find beautiful ( Read more... )

I hope this isn't an omen for the new year! BTW, best wishes for everyone!

Can't write this on any file I can save and read on my PC, so drabbles must be written and they must go here for now. This has been buzzing around in my head for a week or so now. Nice to have the critters back. This came out originally as something set in the DC universe, although switch the characters up a bit and it could apply to anything. ( Read more... )

So 'retired life' is seriously getting to my folks. Ever since I've come home I haven't been able to get much of anything productive done before noon. It doesn't help when you don't eat breakfast until 11, if at all. My parents just don't seem to do much of... anything anymore. Mom's in her pajamas well past noon, Dad just kinda flits around the ( Read more... )

BOO all of this lovely snow is going to be gone by Christmas :(

Seriously, seriously considering applying for the collections manager position at Tech. Torn in two though, makes me nervous to think about it too much. My heart is wondering why I'm not typing my cover letter right now. This is a job that I should leap at, this is one of those pinnacles I pictured myself upon when I was 5. Not just a collections ( Read more... )

11PM, and I'm at home. One family traded off for another, again. In a way, I'm glad. There's something about separation that is convenient. The majority of me misses the others terribly though, the way I miss my family when I'm out at school. As I've said before, never a happy medium ( Read more... )

The end of the semester is within sight. I'm heading home with Matt and Chloe early Monday, hopefully to more snow than we have here. We got about 6 inches over the last week, and a good deal of it is still around thanks to it being VERY COLD. Freezing fog and packed ice in the school parking lots, the whole nine yards. The city looks lovely with ( Read more... )