What have I been doing! my work, and then while walking to Toby in the evenings, thinking 'I want to throw up and/or cry.' I'm the best. (Oh, this evening I engaged in some long-distance nagging/confusion with Kate and Melissa ( Read more... )

Like the searchlights
2011 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim: Excellent defense/terrible defense. That is, Bourjos/Mathis.
Notes: I drafted this in a meeting in July 2011, when the Angels were good: hooray for the season? Hooray for Opening Day. Title et cet. from the Mountain Goats' "Old College Try." Edited by faded-lilac who said, "Holy COW do you love a ( Read more... )

Ah, spring. Today I went outside for coffee, which is striking only to me since (a) I was out-of-doors during the daytime and (b) I paid for coffee, but it is gorgeous today. Who cares that it was almost freezing when I woke up this morning, it is gorgeously sunny. And all of the undergrads are in shorts and look well-tanned. Nom nom: thus ends my ( Read more... )

Today was "how to talk about discovery," "how to litigate personal freedoms" (we're doing "sexual autonomy" for late Valentines tomorrow! <3 I hope to work for this professor this summer) and "what types of freehold estates are the best, please zip it Miss (last name) no one wants to hear about patterns of inheritance." Law, I suppose. Big news, I' ( Read more... )

Descending chronological order, no ratings nor summaries. I think I got them all. (Stories from 2000-2004 are somewhere else on the Internet too hideous for this list to name. That and I've forgotten it.)

Like most things, it's all faded-lilac's fault, especially 2007-2011. Thanks for making me do this, girl!

( hockey )

Starting the new semester tomorrow: must redouble my efforts, and be more of an Amundsen than a Scott. What, yes, that is the appropriate analogy, and not at all fantastical or crass. On the drive from southern New York to southern Ohio, with stops in Pittsburgh and Columbus, my mother and I switched off reading Huntford's "The Last Place on Earth ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about an utterly lovely something I recently received! It is a story and it is from Yuletide and I adore it. It is constant source of shame to me that I cannot swoon sufficiently through the medium of text to express quite how I adore this story. Constant shame, I am saying here, constant.

Walk These Streets All NightIt is very ( Read more... )

Exams are upcoming! (I will continue to be gone.)

HOWEVER.

( v v important infographic. )

This is such a FANCY challenge these days, it's tremendous.

( dear yuletide, )

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