Went with my mom and daughter to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. A video about studying host/pathogen evolution in birds featured a rather striking euphemism for death. "A neighbor of mine when I was a little boy got me interested in birds. He must have--stopped birdwatching some time ago, but...

This is my story about living in America ( Read more... )

I remember a friend of mine telling me that sure sign of a goy was actually liking matzoh. She was probably right. I'm going to be done with this box before Passover even starts.

I just learned that Diana Wynne Jones died a couple of days ago. There are still easily half a dozen books of hers that I haven't read--no, it looks like a dozen--and I'm okay with that. Some of them are probably missable. But goddamn, I so very much grew up on Diana Wynne Jones ( Read more... )

3:30 AM. Woke to the sound of a cat puking somewhere, went to investigate. I didn't want my partner running into that first thing in the morning unprepared. Sure enough, there it was, downstairs. A hairball. The work of a redhead. Patrice? Nah, that dizzy dame hadn't left my bedroom all night. This must be Baltimore Tim ( Read more... )

Wow, so, you know this Livejournal thing? It's a place where you have an account for like several years and then stop posting but keep checking in on people and then maybe you feel sort of lame for not posting and you're like "dammit I should post." It's pretty cool, this Livejournal thing.

( bird stuff )

Buhhh I just had a dream about my boss at the lab telling me and Jonah-from-elementary-school about his crazy past as a girl traveling the streets of Asia* and then getting in trouble with the Indonesian government and agreeing to spy for them. But it was the end of the line for Dr. W and he knew it, and I woke up when the Feds (or Indonesian ( Read more... )

For I believe the first time in my life I saw a June bug doing something competently. It was walking along a vine and it didn't bump into anything or fall off even once. I mean, just the other day I had to dodge to avoid running one over with the stroller, and then I had to escort it to safety, where it promptly fell off a tree and then rolled ( Read more... )

Ewww. On the way to bed last night I discovered I was being bitten by a deer tick. Ew ew ew.

...so naturally I thought the world should know.

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )