I'm clipping a couple people from my friends list; we've just stopped being friends, or in at least one case, never were to begin with. This isn't an attempt at petty vengeance ("Oh yeah? Well I'll take you off my friends list! That'll show you!"); it's just an acknowledgment that we're not interested what's going on in each other's lives, and ( Read more... )

I finished Geography Club today. I liked it. Brent Hartinger is very good at pinning down the high school dynamic of cliques and social protocols, and the main character has a very relatable point of view on it all.

Have you ever had a dream within a dream? This morning, I had a dream within a dream within a dream. In the third dream, I found I could fly, and I was cleaning a large house or something with some friends. Then I woke up and realized that I actually had to go to school, but that I could fly there. Then I woke up and realized I couldn't ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit icky. It's a combination of reading a very graphically violent graphic novel, the change in routine of having Alysa moving her stuff out, and keeping an eye on everything to make sure Alysa doesn't accidentally take something of mine. (She's been very good about it, fortunately.) I'm tired, but I don't want to go to bed feeling ( Read more... )

I've decided that I don't like Punisher MAX.* The violence is far more graphic than it needs to be, and the series lacks the character complexity and dry, dark humor that made me love the regular Marvel series so much. What I bought and read today just didn't have that profound ingenuity that turned me into a Garth Ennis fan. It's like he wrote ( Read more... )

Alysa's taking her shower curtain with her, of course, so I had to go find a new one. Who carries shower curtains? Not Bartell. Not Safeway. Not Ross. That leaves Macy's. I don't like spending money at Macy's. Anyway, my new shower curtain is up now ( Read more... )

Well, Alysa didn't start moving out on Sunday like she said she would, but some of her stuff is gone now. She also took my nightlight.

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Correction: I apparently gave her the nightlight before we moved into this place. Whatever. She is, however, trying to weasel out of paying to have the carpet cleaned as we agreed she would.

I think I would really enjoy kendo.

After hearing Alysa complain about how much she hated living in her housemates' mess for the first year that I knew her, I now find myself living in her mess for the past four months, despite my numerous polite requests that she clean up after herself. A day or two ago, I decided that since the diplomatic approach wasn't working, I should clean up ( Read more... )

One of the disadvantages of living on the first floor of my apartment building is that when people smoke outside the lobby, I can smell it through my window. One of the advantages of living on the first floor of my apartment building is that I'm not sleeping outside and I have decent amenities that more than half the world could barely dream of ( Read more... )