I have been so very, very sick, with the full panoply of symptoms -- from fever to sore throat to overactive mucus membranes to muscle aches. On Sunday I was too achey and feverish to sleep, too nauseous to take pills, too miserable to do anything but thrash about and bitch and moan and plead sincerely with any available person to help me -- ( Read more... )

DUMB BITCHES:

If you don't know what you're doing, stop doing it, and wait for some sap to come rescue your dumb ass. Usually I'm in favor of self-sufficiency, and I try to encourage it, using the tried-and-true "let people alone and they'll figure it out themselves" method. But it seems some tasks are simply beyond the ability of a Dumb Bitch ( Read more... )

Warning: This post is kind of disgusting ( Read more... )

I get very few phone calls while I'm at work, but a disproportionate number are from clueless souls seeking help with our website. One can make reservations there, you see, although it seems to be rather difficult for some people. I always want to say, "yeah, don't care, I don't actually do tech support" but then they'd be like, "who does?" and ( Read more... )

I hate this dead time between Christmas and New Year's. Nothing gets done, yet there's no partying. I wish we could move the end of the year to December 27. It would go: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Dicking Around Eating Leftovers And Watching DVDs Day (or Boxing Day, if you've got the Queen on your money) and then BAM, New Year's! Year's over ( Read more... )

Conveyor belt sushi yum!

I did not know there was kaiten-zushi on Queen Anne Hill until today. Is it top quality? No. It it extra-fancy? No. But it is tasty and super cheap, and you get to stare at moving raw fish for as long as you like. This is a proposal that should only be enticing to cats, but humans seem to find it oddly compelling as

Another thought on the Potterverse: the English wizarding community seems very insular and thoroughly interconnected. Everyone has history with everyone, bad blood or good, especially the generation to which the parents of the main characters belong. They've all worked together, or intermarried, or were at school together. This is quite ( Read more... )

The thing that makes the Harry Potter stories more than ordinary children's books, or one of them anyway, is this: No matter how ridiculous or magical Rowling's Wizarding World gets, no matter how powerful the main characters become, Lily and James Potter are irrevocably dead. If, at the end of Book Seven, Harry were to bring his parents back to ( Read more... )

Examining the free gum they gave me at the movie theater, I wonder -- does anyone still make gum with sugar in it?

The Descent was pretty good but will probably be the last horror movie I see for some time. I get nightmares.

FOODZ:
Gigantic tasty cheeseburger & fries from Cheesecake Factory. And this gum.

I am noticing a pattern.

This shit is bananas.

It's a profile of Joe Francis, founder of the Girls Gone Wild franchise, and it's pretty infuriating. Also well written, aside from a few "well, duh" moments like "Youth culture is soaked in sexuality". Go. Read. Shake fist.