When I'm wanting for new music I usually use Pandora or this website: Hype Machine. It's an aggregator that displays a whole slew of music blogs and then plays the mp3s provided. Previously it had a pop-up player, but now it's embedded at the bottom of the screen. I love this feature, and the site in general, which is especially useful when I'm ( Read more... )

I have not been reading so much. But before I started doing that, I was reading a lot of stories from Gardner Dozois' The Best of the Year's Science Fiction for 2006, as well as the 20-year anthology of the series, which I got last year for Christmas. I know I might have said something about branching out, but my previous read was A Fine Balance by ( Read more... )

When you're in class or having a conversation or reading something, don't you cherish those moments when scattered pieces unexpectedly converge? Ah, every time I used the word "clarity" I think of that heinous Fergie song. Oh. Now it's in my head. At any rate, moments of clarity.

I recently reread and read a lot of Neal Stephenson's stuff, and one ( Read more... )

Don't use it.

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I think some time soon I will start praying. I did so when I was a little secular girl, as all little longing children do, I think, but for the small things. If I find my missing math homework, O Unnamed Deity, I promise a million times that I won’t hit my sisters. I’ll never do it again. Just let me have this one thing this one time and I’ll be ( Read more... )

“But a month ago, six months ago, I wasn’t thinking in language about what (if anything) is love. I was thinking about his mouth, and his arse, and his hands. People like me, who think too much, are so glad, so grateful, at least at first, to be overcome by thoughts of lips, hands and eyes ( Read more... )

Hi LJ,

It is definitely 2:03 AM and I definitely only have 1 out of 5 pages of my humanities paper on Freud and Shaffer's Amadeus written and so at around ten I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make chocolate mint chip muffins. So that is what I did.


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this is a puppy:


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