I really hate spiders who invade my house! Here I am, trying to relax and enjoy a beautiful picture of Kato and Iwaki, and I glance over at the piano, and there's this HUGE black spider on the wall! Big as a half-dollar, and round in shape. I'm REALLY glad I've got empty wrapping paper rolls and excellent aim. He's now flat and dead, in the ( Read more... )

Spent the morning looking at platinum prints brought in by a local photographer. They're much different from silver gelatin prints, they don't have the glossy, shiny sheen that silver prints do. They're not quite a matte print, but they have a texture that you can just fall into. Platinum prints seem to have qualities of both photography and ( Read more... )

I just put a nice pile of green beans and organic apples on Aya's food dish. What does he choose to eat instead? Pieces of the newspaper that line the bottom of his pen. Silly tortoise!

Sorry I've been rather quiet lately- lots going on. Work is VERY busy, I must fully process an archive by 10am Friday, so not much time or energy to think about anything else. And at home, I need to clean and pack for vacation. Probably won't be on LJ much over the next several days, will catch up on the weekend.

Soooooo looking forward to

Wow, just as blark predicted, today has been incredibly lazy. Slept in, had interesting dreams. Ate a late breakfast/lunch and watched v. 3 of Samurai Champloo. Jin... finally an episode mostly about Jin... he's soooooo gorgeous!!! Did a little cleaning, then played around on the Internet for a while. Now off to eat dinner and go to bed early. ( Read more... )

Today has been wonderful. Got up on time, caught the bus I wanted, grabbed the last cinnamon/brown sugar Pop Tart at work. Chatted a little with the co-worker, then answered some emails. Spent all afternoon in the processing room working on the archive I've been dealing with lately. KS fielded all questions from the three student assistants, so ( Read more... )

"When he'd gone, I stood looking out of the window. There was the ghost of a tennis court, with faded markings and a sagging net. There was an empty pool where Clara Bow and Fatty Arbuckle must have swam ten thousand midnights ago. Then I saw something else- the chimp's last rites... as if she were laying a child to rest. Was her life really as ( Read more... )

Is the official spelling of Schu's name Schuldig or Schuldich?

Sorry I've been so quiet lately- just haven't felt like being on the computer for a while, I guess. Every once in a while, I get the urge to stay off the computer for several days and do other stuff. Have been sorting a bunch of papers, reading several good books, listening to more music, running around the track ( Read more... )

I just realized that I have four varieties of gourmet chocolate in my desk drawer at work: Russian dark chocolate, Scharffenberger dark chocolate, dark chocolate with Earl Grey tea, milk chocolate with masala.

Life is good.