last night i flipped one of the lids to my contact case into the toilet.

I just drank my first vinegar-ade of the season.

Yesterday I epilady-ed my legs, ate pizza, watched a movie*, and rode my bike around town and went up the hill without stopping.

I'm also in the process of making one mother of a raw lasagna.

*Broken FLowers. It was okay.

We didn't have a lock on our door for almost a month. Since there is no latch on the front door we chained it to keep it closed and used the back door, which means we had to walk down the exterior stairs, which for some reason are coated in slippery green slime. Then to make matters worse there was a banana peel at the bottom ( Read more... )

I saw Seymour Hersh last night at the NMU. It started out on a sour note for me in that I feel like I've heard enough Bush-bashing for a lifetime and most talk of U.S. politics grates my nerves. But once that was over he had a pretty intriguing speech with some compelling commentary on the "war on terrorism". Recommended if he's touring near you. I ( Read more... )

My picks from the West Coast. I could only come up with three. I think I have Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest overload ( Read more... )

I just went through the east coast entries for this year's Smallest, Coolest Apartment contest at apartmenttherapy.com and picked out my favorites. It's really not as good as last year's contest at all, but ( Read more... )

I just made my second banana smoothie of the day and it's not even noon.

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I ate three paczki.

This guy is totally speaking my language.

Working in a field that uses a lot of paper, I especially like this part:

"...we're working with companies now to develop lightweight plastic papers. We have safe, lightweight inks designed to float off the paper in a bath of 180 degrees-hotter than you would encounter under normal circumstances. We can ( Read more... )