It's interesting what you find out when you stay home sick.  I got no less than three calls per day (four today) from numbers that were listed as unknown callers and who didn't leave messages.  I googled them all and they're all from telemarketers of some type.  Only one of the phone numbers called every day, so that means at least eight different ( Read more... )

Proof of my abysmal luck:  Today's the first day back at work for the university and I was all chipper, though feeling somewhat nauseous.  I thought it was nerves.  So yeah, I chatted animatedly with a couple of my officemates about our Christmases, then went to my office and wham!   I barely made it to my trashcan in time.  I am beyond embarrassed ( Read more... )

I am truly torn.  My sixteen year old sweet biddy of a kitty, Blythe, has a coat that looks like shit no matter how much you brush her/wash her/feed her good stuff, she's lost a lot of weight, she's constantly hungry and drinks a lot of water... come to find out she's got an over-active thyroid.
Treatments are:  one pill a day, broken into two ( Read more... )

*makes painful choking/flabbergasted noises for about five minutes*
GUH!!!!

Ok.  Knowing that I enjoy re-reading fics on a regular basis, I do not care how much of a pain in the ass it is, how tedious it is, how much space it will take up... I MUST save to my own hard drive any fic that I really love.  Period! 
Aw, damnit.  Soon as I know I'll never ( Read more... )

Good lord.

My mom just forwarded an email to me entitled, "The Anti-Christ and Mr. Obama." 
My first thought, as it usually is when I see something this INANE is, "...just, why?"  The man hasn't even taken office yet, for pete's sake.

Anyway.

The original author of the thing deftly manipulates scripture to fit his message - as what I call "rapture- ( Read more... )

I find it absolutely fascinating how the only time something goes wrong with a transaction on ebay is one of the few times I don't invest in insurance.
Out of the three hundred plus transactions where I've bought stuff over the last seven years, I've bought insurance the majority of the time and have never once had a problem with any of those not ( Read more... )

I seem to collect pet peeves about writing like I was getting paid for it, I have no idea why.  My latest one is the one where people write like they're getting graded for it, with little to no usage of contractions.  It's a completely personal thing, I know, but I so much prefer when people write dialogue as if people were actually speaking it... ( Read more... )

ebay rant.

( Snipers basically suck )

Ok, I can't stand it - I die laughing practically every single time I see it. 
So apparently Robert Pattinson was told the nickname given to him by his rabid fans is RPattz.   He didn't much like it, 'cause he apparently hates his name... So the interviewer was like, "Well, what nickname would you rather have?"
And he hemmed and hawed and hemmed and ( Read more... )

Now I remember why editing could be SO FREAKING FRUSTRATING ( Read more... )