[I started this on New Year's day, but it took a while to get out.]

Dear Everyone,

( Happy New Year! )

( Excuses, adventures, and ULTIMATE POWER!!! And corn. )

Well, I got two bits of good news this weekend. First, I finally officially graduated. (Well, okay, so it's not much of a surprise, but it's good to finally have it.) And then apparently a roleplaying supplement I wrote for back in the day (as in, 5 years ago) is actually finally going to see print. I didn't even know this until this morning, but ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone,

( Irene comes and goes, and we're okay )

Dear Everyone,

( Long, long newsletter behind the cut, but lots of fun photos. Includes gale-force winds, an ugly mermaid, and lots of cute girls. )

Thanks to my working as a teaching assistant both semesters last year, we were just able to pay off the last of Kogarashi's student loans. We are now debt-free* individuals, at least until we take out a mortgage (probably not for a few more years, until we actually settle somewhere). I wish this meant more money in our monthly budget, but since my ( Read more... )

At the behest of our local missionaries, I was checking out the new features at Mormon.org. I don't know how common phrases like this are in Terms of Agreement, but I found it really amusing:

Additionally, you hereby grant to IRI a royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable license to use your Submission throughout the ( Read more... )

Since I know most of my LJ friends worked on Leading Edge at some point, I'm reposting a message I got from another former staff member. Looks like the administration is again considering cutting it. I swear this battle has to be fought every 3-5 years, and I bet the literary magazine doesn't have to deal with it ( Read more... )

I've been getting several obvious phishing attempts through my school account lately, but I think this one takes the cake. I post it here for your reading pleasure. (It cracked me up, at least):

Dear Sir/Mar ( Read more... )

Got another What is X? post up, this time on Genetic Engineering. I think it's worth reading just to find the link to Greenpeace's evil corn picture. It had me cracking up for five minutes straight.