I hit the 40 pound mark this morning. None of my clothes fit, and I just ordered myself some jeans in a size I haven't worn in at least ten years. I'm five pounds away from the halfway mark.

The best part? When I see my reflection in the mirror, I see my own face again.

I went biking on Sunday. Two times around the 3-mile bike path around the lake ( Read more... )

Patrick Swayze died yesterday. This is upsetting to me for reasons that have nothing to do with Patrick Swayze ( Read more... )

I'm back from Pennsic, safe and sound. Had a lovely time, all around ( Read more... )

I had a bad week. Last week was the dreaded KCAs, which makes my job an increasing pile of hell from early february until the end of March. The event itself was last Saturday, went well, broke all the records, blahblahblah. Back to work Monday, trying to clean up all the piles of nasty that KCA left behind. Tuesday had a meltdown. Not feeling great ( Read more... )

90% of the wallpaper in the bathroom is gone. There's just the little bits that are hard to get at - behind the medicine cabinet I'm going to remove, behind the toilet, between the doorframe and the window frame in the corner. It didn't seem like it was that much work, or like it took that long, but, the day went by in two-hour shots with falling- ( Read more... )

I'm lousy at updating LJ. Especially lately. I'm slightly better at updating my facebook status. Requires less thought and fewer words. I feel like I should have something important or meaningful to say here. This is not that post ( Read more... )

Larry Summers? THAT Larry Summers? The guy who said that the reason there weren't more women in the highest ranks of academia was because they were genetically inferior as a whole?

Really?

He better be really good at economics.

I can't ever remember feeling so optimistic and happy about the world.

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