Overheard snippet from the bar tonight: ...but it wasn't a zit the doctor said it's like a fat deposit? which is this thing that happens that looks like a zit but it's not and they did the procedure and it just kept coming and coming? it was like a zit except for just like the most of this gross white stuff kept coming out and she got paid. She ( Read more... )

Once every few years, the manic entertaining socialite I have buried deep inside comes bubbling out (usually after I've had a few.) Apparently I used to be a much funnier, outgoing person, but I've done my best to eradicate that kind of unpleasant behavior. This weekend was apparently that Brigadoon time of year, and instead of staying on the ( Read more... )

Hey hey, here's your assignment for the weekend:
Find or coin the appropriate word for the following concepts:

1 ______________: a city of incomplete buildings, "The necropolis is a city of the dead, and the _________ is a city never born."

2 __________: to become hungry at the idea of eating parts of one's own body. "Since I've spent the ( Read more... )

Crap, a new Grow game. ""Grow Island" has crept out of my computer and is supergluing my butt to this chair. So much for all the stuff I have to do today.
And I normally hate video game music, but at the stage I'm on now I could just let it play all day, while I comb my hair back and put on white plastic sunglasses and dance around all day.

OK kinders, it's Science Experiment Wednesday. Get out your vials and beakers and Milgram machines, and make your way down the garden path to this question:
We all know that a 'placebo' is a medication or treatment that has no actual therapeutic value; it's an inert substance or ritual meant to spur the patient into psychologically healing ( Read more... )

Today really smelled like autumn. It was overcast and grey and about the time I got home it started to rain. And in some weird trick of seasonal trans-temporal psychokinesis the iTunes shuffle has been taken over by myself as a moody insufferable adolescent and keeps playing tracks off Mind Bomb and Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Almost wish I ( Read more... )

So I finally had a dream with Tina Fey in it. We were both on this huge wooden frigate that was something between a scientific expedition and a party barge. I never really got a chance to talk to her, because, you know, she's pretty busy, and she was there DJing with the other women in her hip-hop group. (Did you know she makes all her own gear ( Read more... )

So I just discovered that I'm not insured anymore. In fact I haven't been since June. All the money I've sent to my former employer for COBRA payments all summer? They've just been taking the money. All the doctors appointments I've had since June? I expect to be getting the enormous bills any day now. All upcoming appointments and ( Read more... )

Behind the cut: ( boring to most, terrifying to me )

I'm getting pretty tired of being so fucking nice. Got in a little accident on the bike this afternoon, a guy on his phone made a right turn in front of me and I rolled over his hood. Had he been an asshole about it, or had there been any serious damage to my bike, this would be a much different story. But he was so upset (he kept saying "I shat ( Read more... )