cheese is the new morphine? i wonder who said that, and why?

"I am a commoner and a whore, and ashamed of neither." -- from kushiel's avatar" by kacqueline carey. while halfway through the second book of the series (this is the third) i complained to christie of how silly it is, explaining the plot to her and reading her a paragraph of the overblown, self-important prose. she asked if i was reading a soap ( Read more... )

hank and lily put on an excellent show. he had a cowboy shirt on ... but the cowboy-y parts on the pockets and shoulders were made of metal. real metal. the show (at lucky on tuesday) was some guy's birthday party. there was a cake, which carolyn mark (swoon!) handed out to the crowd, and a pinata that the birthday boy hit with a broomstick ( Read more... )

"You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain"

ah lovely, lazy days!

rp monopoly seems like a great idea. too bad i'm not a gamer ( Read more... )

i have a ups thing for my phone! it's in town and they actually found my house! i'm excited. i'm going to call tomorrow to see if i can go pick it up. maybe. haven't driven with the snow all about ... maybe my da will be willing to drive me there (he's coming over every weekend because my grandma is in a bad state ( Read more... )

wow. the word of the year is truthiness? how bizarre. not as strange as thousands of dead birds falling from the sky or new york being a stinking hole (wait, that's not strange...).

my knee is actually still a bit hurty. mostly after i go walking about, really. snowboarding should be interesting!

i can't believe i haven't posted this yet. i am in love with this video.

i finished reading the invisibles this evening. seven books! i didn't like the last one so much, but i can't help but wonder if that's because i thought that there were six books until i told jono (they're his) that i finished it, and he didn't believe me (rightly so, as it turned out. his bookshelves are so unorganised it hurts to look at them ( Read more... )

my knee is better! i stopped limping on saturday night, but i *was* incredibly drunk... well, i limped a little bit on sunday but now i'm mostly all better. still some twinges but! snowboarding on friday! i'm excited. haven't been boarding in seven or eight years ( Read more... )