um, beads aside, it's lovely and bright and happy outside. but i'm a little chilly and congested and not-going-to-work-because-eff-sinuses. still, i could not resist the call of the pączki. because fried dough and sugary fruit-filling will definitely help me combat congestion ( Read more... )

so i missed mardi gras this week. so what? so some of my local friends didn't see the vagina monologues (which was freaking awesome, by the way). am i hung up on it? hardly. here's why:

-happy year of the pig! if you were born in 1983 like me, this is *your year*!
-happy presidents' day-happy *real* mardi gras ( Read more... )

hey, remember when we were in catholic school and they told us to call it "SAINT valentine's day," because it was a saint's feast day? i remember being told he was a priest who was martyred for secretly marrying young catholic couples. wikipedia (oh, so reliable...?) suggests *nothing* is known of his life, and that the church moved his feast day ( Read more... )

for "NOW" in muncie, indiana:

Blizzard Warning in effect... snow...heavy at times...is expected to continue through the day. Additional snowfall accumulations of around 4 inches are likely by late afternoon. Northeast winds will gust to 40 mph at times which will cause considerable blowing and drifting of the Snow. White out conditions are also ( Read more... )

( stolen from becca & kerry because i'm too bored and anxious to read and because yes, i still read everybody's journals on my friends page even if i don't make comments. )

"Hathaway suffered depression as a teen"

Actress Anne Hathaway suffered from depression and anxiety as a teenager, and she's proud to have overcome her troubles. The Devil Wears Prada star is relieved she managed to beat the miserable, self-absorbed period she went through when she was growing up. Recalling her troubled period, she says, "I said ( Read more... )

apparently, my new thing is to do google image searches for abstract concepts like "love" and "beauty."

also, i just googled "S" because i was looking for the name of that one S that looks like an f. here are my ( two favorite images of S. )

this site should be titled "puppy vs. my little pony." *look at the costumes!*

yesterday was way too long. like, awake for almost 19 hours long. most of it was stuff that wasn't hard or particularly taxing (three hours, of which i tutored 2; sitting through a job talk; dinner with some of the cohort ladies for l.'s birthday; vagina monologues meeting), but it was just one of those "nothing can help me feeling completely ( Read more... )

eric: does pink and sour refer to the big V ( Read more... )