I got a bit of a late start on the festival today, owing to a going-away BBQ for a couple of my friends (everyone is leaving the city!) I missed a few bands I wanted to see (most notably Woods, who I've now missed something like four times), but I didn't miss anything Earth-shattering.

4:30 This time I knew where the bike parking was, but since ( Read more... )

Okay, item one: the Machine of Death 2 short story has been submitted. Ten minutes before the deadline, but what-the-heck ever, it's my first finished and submitted-for-anything piece of original writing since my BA. It's all good. I can rest happy now ( Read more... )

Guys, let me show you something. Something embarrassing about my city. So, this kind of happened last night, the tl;dr of which is: Bunch of high school role-players got part of Millennium Park shut down and evacuated with a "suspicious package" made of duct tape and two bricks (and, according to one report with an earlier timestamp than the ( Read more... )

It's been almost three weeks since my last gardenspam, and look at how they've grown:

( I might get to eat something soon! )

Hey guys! I have yet another conundrum that you have to help me solve! (This one might be fun, though, I dunno ( Read more... )

( Additional instructions for Ikea Utby table )

I've spent the last few days working on my grand Rearrange the Apartment scheme. I'm almost done. I have my new desk set up, my old desk is stored away in the closet, I moved my old kitchen table into a corner I freed up in my living room today, and started assembling my new bar table. This is something that I've been looking forward to since I ( Read more... )

Every once in a while someone will find it necessary to ask me "Why don't you move out of Hyde Park?" People just don't seem to understand the charm of this neighborhood (when you ignore everything having to do with the University...) I never really had a good summation of why I feel so at home here. I pretend that it has to do with it being a ( Read more... )

I'm wrong about (nearly) everything!

( Drama, drama, duck (Pond?) )

It's been a long week and I could do with some nonsense. My original plan was to write my own version of the next episode and race the BBC to the Doctor Who cliffhanger... and try to outdo Moffat in ridiculous, barely-coherent revelations that nonetheless make some tenuous amount of sense. I'm probably going to be bustling around the city ( Read more... )