Apparently I've decided to abandon this thing. Because somehow it's been 7 months since I last posted. Whoops! Not dead and all that, just...doing other things. Working, reading pr0n...you know, the usual. Went to Seattle, Death Valley, Yosemite, Iowa, and back to Chicago. (Sidenote: The Annual Family Fireworks & Explosion Extravaganza went ( Read more... )

So...annual BSOL holiday party compete with cookie-decorating and bird nerd games? Check! I scored at our white elephant gift exchange, too. Got a shell magnet. Tiny, unobtrusive, and now on the fridge. And I got RID of a bottle of cannabis perfume that had been part of this crazy gift bag from a benefit hosted by my sister's boss. Yep. Pot ( Read more... )

Ah, winter. 66 degrees and sunny. Flowers blooming, birds singing, butterflies flutterbying...oh Monterey! You so crazy! It's that time of year again: time to experience severe cognitive dissonance as I attempt to reconcile Christmas decorations, wreaths and lights with sun and ocean ( Read more... )

So I'm up waaaaaay past my bedtime because I've been mining YouTube for Daily Show & Colbert Report clips and dear sweet lord are those boys funny. Never have I felt the lack of cable so keenly! But thank god for good old YouTube (an interesting sidenote: at my reunion I learned that one of the girls I used to hang out with all the time now works ( Read more... )

Big shout out to ma girl canis_m, who has successfully survived another year. Good job, dude! Way to live!

P.S. CHECK YOUR E-MAIL.

Election happiness yay, go dems, etc. Except that once again, we are stuck with the Governator. Why, Californians, why? All you've done is complain about him from practically the day he got elected, and here he wins in a landslide! WHATEVS. GOD. In local news, my landlord was elected mayor of Monterey. SWEET. Now I'm just sitting back and ( Read more... )

Tis Halloween and I am begarbed and berobed and otherwise gussied up, prepared to go forth and inflict fear, terror, and a sort of vague anxiety on the viewing public. This year I am going out as a dead bride. With fake blood! I've never used fake blood before! It rocks! I'm going with the gang up to partake in the rich freak tapestry known as ( Read more... )

As the illustrious hj1 pointed out in the comments, today is 10/13. 1013! Oh, for the joy and rabid excitement that number once brought to us! Oh X-Files fandom, you will always for me be the one that burned the brightest and most fiercely in my heart. Though I dwell now in other fandoms, you were the first. Ah, those were the days, full of ( Read more... )

Hola mes amigas! Right now I am coming to you LIVE from scenic Veracruz, Mexico, where I have been all week at the NAOC conference. I gave my talk yesterday and it went well despite the fact that it was a bit under the alloted time. Allow me to summarize my 9-minute presentation in one sentence ( Read more... )

Guess who just got back from watching the last opening night showing of Snakes on a Plane?

That's right, baby. ME. And it was AWESOME. When Sam Jackson uttered his already infamous line ( cut for naughty language )