I seem to have left my corset back in Montana, and wound up looking at a few places again for a new corset. I'm not as (painfully) thin as I was when I bought that corset, and while I'm sure I could still fit into it, I also kind of want an underbust corset that I could wear in a more casual setting. I really like corsets to ensure that I don't ( Read more... )

I can't escape cross-country, it seems. I am currently in a classroom while waiting for my 7pm class, and the Western Women's Cross-Country team just showed up in the room to set up a high school meet in Gibbons Park near the university. They've a specific system for doing this, so I can't help, unfortunately, though I did offer ( Read more... )

My grandmother is originally South African, and thus the tradition of the braai (or barbeque) is strong in the family. She started a tradition of a South African barbeque in 1993, and one of my favorite memories of her home was running amongst the guests and the smoke from the half-drum barbeque after having stuffed myself with boerewors, lambchops ( Read more... )

Indeed, the class was short. The professor didn't even show up, so most people waited fifteen minutes and then invoked the university version of the Five Minute Rule. I was lazy and caught the 10 bus up to the base of the Brescia hill and then walked up, cutting about five minutes from my walk, but hey, it was /right there/ and I was tired ( Read more... )

The comic book store linked to the anime store I used to work at is still open, just moved down the street a ways to get away from the scary crack-selling corner. It was good to see the Tim again. He gave my roommate my old discount on the Lost Girls hardcover, which surprised me. Apparently little Tim is also still working for him, so that's a ( Read more... )

First class went well, though I've read and reread the short story we were supposed to work on ('The Horse Dealer's Daughter', by D.H. Lawrence) and have already made my notes on the epiphany, particularly useful quotes and the different symbols (oh god, there are so many). I'm compiling different interpretations of the characters now, and theories ( Read more... )

Roommate is many kinds of awesome. She has a Wonder Woman sigil tattooed behind one ear, worked in a comic book store prior to coming to university (and has similar stories to my own), and we both gleefully spent half an hour talking about ChampO's chargen and how shiny it was when we first encountered one another. At the barbeque, we spent about ( Read more... )

(I posted this to the FST comm and to JSA_Allstars, but I realized that a lot of people don't read those. So I figured I might as well crosspost it to here ( Read more... )

Relief: Grandma and Uncle are taking Molly until I finish school. I hadn't asked them because they always seemed anything but cat people, but I think Uncle is missing having an animal around to take care of -- he always took Bruno and Abby when the family needed to be elsewhere -- and he was contemplating building cat furniture when I left, so I ( Read more... )

Found cat, am in Toronto, at a Starbucks. No open wifi near grandmother's house. Damn people and their slow growth of tech-savvy.