Banana Boat, Poland Spring, Third Eye Blind, and it might as well be Summer here in this podunk little town today.

How can anyone say "free-thinking" like it's a bad thing?
What, exactly, is my alternative? Restricted-thinking?

...Uhm... Anyway. Happy Earth Day, everyone.

Ummm, hello random sunshine!
Are you lost?
Oh, just stopping by for a quick visit?
Sounds good, make yourself comfortable!

...Screw this crappy day. I'm going for a jog, making some tea, having vegetarian chili, and then I'm going to freakin' WRITE, damnit!

This month, April Showers has a double-meaning.
The peak of the Lyrids meteor shower is on Earth Day (I think on the Northern Horizon? Supposedly if you face the direction of Leo, you'll be able to spot it quickly.)

And although it's been ridiculously rainy this month, tomorrow and Saturday are reportedly going to be absolutely beautiful and close ( Read more... )

Today is my last day as Joanna: Pet-sitter extraordinaire. (Hallelujah.)

Just gotta get through today, then I'm a free woman.
No more cats; No more dogs; No more turtles; No more frogs!
And I'm really looking forward to sleeping till at least ten again, and NOT hanging out in an empty house trying to appease a dog with separation anxiety. I'm DONE

It's raining pretty damn hard today ( Read more... )

The dog was so much more well-behaved today.

I even yelled and it LISTENED. Which never happens with this dog.

It went outside, it did its business, I fed it, I gave it water, I got to yell at it, and now I'm a lot less pissed about having to take care of the mongrel until Tuesday.

...Although, I will be the first to admit, I would have never ( Read more... )

I am dog-sitting the most dramatic, yappy, emo-kid of a chihuahua on the planet. He won't leave the parents bed, he only just stopped barking after the ten minutes I've been here, he growled even through the treat I gave him, and I don't know what to do about taking him out to pee if he won't leave the damn bed. I have to come back around eight to ( Read more... )

I forgot to update my booklist.

March:

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Edgar Allen Poe: Selected Works by Edgar Allen Poe
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Total for '09 so far: Eighteen.

Not bad.

I retook that billion question sorting hat quiz. Looks like I'm still a Gryffindor lol ( Read more... )