Each time I stop back in Boswell, I pack my boot with boxes of books. These wait in my car until a nice day (like today) in which I finally unload and unpack them. One of the boxes included my small store of historical/political texts. I was inspired to look something up, given the protests yesterday and Fox's coverage of them ( Read more... )

Dyshidrotic eczemaHave not been officially diagnosed (it seems like a waste of time to be told "use lots of hydrocortisone cream, deal with it, and oh yeah, you owe me three hundred dollars") and so I'm unlikely to seek medical attention until it would start to look like the first and second pictures, as opposed to the third picture, which is ( Read more... )

In helpful bullet form, I ( Read more... )

Instead of celebrating the non-Irish Irish Saint Drinking Day with green beer and carousing downtown, I headed north to McConnells Mill State Park for, by my guesstimation, a measly four mile hike on mixed trails. I am, as usual, horrifically out of shape and under-prepared for any physical activity I ever take part in, but my legs had a faint, * ( Read more... )

Zelda. She came with the name of Zora, which didn't seem to fit. I fleetingly considered Zoe but dismissed it. I thought about going for something ethnic sounding, but... Zelda. Yeah. That works. She is primarily charcoal with some faint and very sparse brushes of brown along her back; her chin is white, and there is a thin line of that down her ( Read more... )

I now have a table and three chairs (the fourth is on back order, for the love of god, but I'm slightly closer to having in hand all of the pieces of furniture that I ordered) as delivered by two fairly delightfully dorky gentlemen. I also made certain to get all the garbage taken out as soon as I got home, since posting about my epic laziness and ( Read more... )

While I'm writing this, I am drinking the first cup of coffee I have made in the new flat, and even that was instant. Given that I've slacked off almost entirely from my nightly stop-off at Sheetz, this has been the first significant amount of coffee -- barring the rare plastic cuppa at work -- I've had in some weeks. When Mr. Leary said, "In the ( Read more... )

1) I still don't have Internet, HELLO. (This entry brought to you from the ex-housemate's house ( Read more... )

TSIA.

I'm thinking of making another one of those 101 in 1001 lists again, keeping in mind that I will in no way follow it or come close to completing the list of things that I say I want to get done. But list-making, if not list-completing, is almost some kind of weird comfort activity.

In the next six months, I need to:

* Pay off my credit card ( ( Read more... )