My mom's annual mammogram turned up something serious, and now, after a biopsy and a few days of everyone freaking out, she has a diagnosis: it is a Low-grade Infiltrating Ductile Carcinoma ( Read more... )

Our bedroom's been a pigsty for ages now, and it finally got intolerable. We couldn't see the floor anymore, and the top of the dresser was piled high with miscellaneous crap. The cat had built a nest in some old clothes, which remained undisturbed for some months. I kept starting books and not finishing them because they'd been lost in the mess ( Read more... )

For no particular reason, I've become convinced that it must absolutely rock to be a Hufflepuff. I'm certain of it. While other Houses are busy stressing out about Quidditch, or O.W.L.s, or how to cover up that new Dark Mark, Hufflepuffs are just having a kick-ass time for seven years. They're never going to win the House Cup, so why worry about ( Read more... )

Most of the benefit of my year at St. John's was social rather than academic, but the first semester of freshman math was a joy. Second semester was Copernicus and Kepler and Ptolemy, and astronomy using the geocentric model, which I couldn't bring myself to care about. But for the first few months, all we did was work our way through Euclid's ( Read more... )

Don't know why it's so tiny. Oh well.


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Every time I go to the grocery store, which is more often than I should, I am struck by how grill-focused everything has gotten. It is summer, and bags of charcoal briquettes compete with displays of barbeque sauce for end-cap space. Every lifestyle magazine at the checkout racks promises "GREAT GRILLING RECIPES" and "THE BEST BURGERS EVER". ( Read more... )

In my dream, Kerne and I sat at our side-by-side desks, and he told me about the new program he had written, while I peeled an orange ( Read more... )

Pirates 3 at the Cinerama, midnight Thursday, May 24.

WHO IS WITH ME?

It's got... Chow Yun-Fat! (I sincerely hope he takes off that belt and whips somebody with it.)


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1. A few days ago I realized I had two different books 75% finished -- Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix -- and hadn't picked up either in a month. So I finished them both back to back, and now my brain is full of destruction and death. Seriously, things couldn't get much grimmer. I haven't read Half-Blood Prince, but if the trend I've ( Read more... )

So there's a new Harry Potter 5 trailer, and it makes me happy. It seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with the book as I remember it, but I'm all right with that. It's got everything I need: horrid Umbridge, awesome Weasley twins, smug-as-fuck Dumbledore, and anti-authoritarian subtext. And it's got one thing I didn't know I needed: ( Read more... )