See, I'm not making this up. Except for the strange seam at the knees, that's pretty close to a cotehardie as far as I'm concerned. She's even wearing a belt with it. Although the color is pretty boring.

My friend just got engaged, which is really exciting. But I just got this reminder from my news feeds today about the status of my rights.

Quoted from Dan Savage on Slog:

"Actual Republican elected officials move to ban gay marriage in Washington D.C.

Actual Republican elected officials move to ban gay marriage in Iowa ( Read more... )

I was doing some preliminary research for my potential thesis topic and talking to 'Manda on the phone when I was suddenly overcome with doubt about my future ( Read more... )

Snow everywhere! We got another 4 in last night. It's all very exciting. Everything looks so pretty ( Read more... )

The best sentence from a concert report:

"In the second movement, the moo is shifted dramatically."

I have no words.

...but eco-musicology?

Really?

I mean, I'm all for the environment, and eco-friendly stuff. But what on earth do eco-musicologists do?

*scratches head*

So many concert reports...my eyes are glazing over. The one small ray of sunshine is that the reports are slightly better than last time, but still ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been awhile since I've bothered to post. Ah well ( Read more... )

Went in for an endoscopy this morning to see if the doctors could figure out what is wrong with my stomach, since I've been having unexplained nausea and vomiting off and on since January. I was pretty nervous about the whole thing, since I hadn't done one before, even though its not really an invasive procedure, and takes hardly any time, and ( Read more... )

Time appears to be slipping quickly through my hands again. Apart from a few brave ventures fraught with perils and cold, I haven't really stirred much from the house until this weekend. It started snowing the day I got back home, and didn't stop until late the 26th. It's weird because it's something that simply DOES NOT HAPPEN here, so barely ( Read more... )