Hey! It's almost Halloween! What are you dressing up as? I spent Saturday making a wig out of purple yarn and plastic grid stuff meant for people to sew rugs with. Intention: Leela from Futurama. Problem: She's got only one eye, and I have four (damn!) Ideas ( Read more... )

How long do the LJ gods allow you to be gone before revoking your membership? Apparently at least 4 months ( Read more... )

Howdy, and thank you all for your fine advice and encouragement re: My Dad Has a Price On My Head. Things are not totally resolved yet, but I'll keep you posted.  The good news is that my credit reports are all clean, and none of them think I have ever lived at his house. More detective work to follow on the policies themselves.

For now, may I ( Read more... )

Do any of you have knowledge of insurance practices, fraud detection, or general advice on the below matter ( Read more... )

It appears that I haven't posted in the better part of a month and I'm still behind on reporting my NYC, Boston, and Maine adventures.  To be fair, Boston only lasted 6 hours and even that was due to (cry) transit delays.  I trust that there will be a point in time in which I catch up, but for right now I just wanted to type something because I ( Read more... )

I spent the whole day Friday on the phone with various student loan agencies, lenders, servicers, guarantors, and consolidators. It was truly horrible, in that way that only talking to student loan companies, having dinner with fundamentalist conservative family members, or watching the musical “Big River” can be.  To make myself feel better, I ( Read more... )

Today, June 2nd, I saw a film, on opening night, in New York City, at the theater in Lincoln Center, across the street from Juilliard. The film was a romantic comedy, and I wore jeans, and Vic & I sneaked Starbucks frappaccinos into the theater in our umbrellas. This is the kind of red carpet girls that we are.

36 hours earlier, Vic had a meeting ( Read more... )

I arrived in NYC yesterday, interpreting “yesterday” as “May 31st.” I rode Amtrak for the first time in my life, being a Texan, and enjoyed it thoroughly, being a transit geek. I highly recommend that you all take Amtrak soon and often, because it is awesome, and because it needs your support so its funding will stop being taken away.

I have a lot ( Read more... )

Today I am pretending that it is May 31, and that I am not actually two weeks behind on my LJ updates, and that you are all wondering what it is up to which I have been lately, on our country’s easterly coast.

Parse THAT.

First things first: rounding up the ( DC visit )

So here's what I did today in our nation's capital ( Read more... )