or How You Know that Your Child is from the Electronic Age.

I changed my desktop background today, from a fan drawing of Sailor Mercury to Van Goeh's "Starry Night". Mara came up and looked at it. Then she asked if it was "beeping". I can only assume that she was referring to the way that the stars and moon are painted with the large yellow

So omnipaul couldn't figure out how to turn on my iMac tonight. . .

omnipaul + kitchen shears + penny = ?(ask omnipaul)?

shadow016, I apologise for being catty with my last comment to you. I just really dislike it when you bring up the "pillow" thing. As for the lavender incidents, at the time you seemed very grumpy and slight embarrassed by them; I certainly never would have ( Read more... )

So I discovered the problem with having friends that are ex's or old housemates.

We were playing Trivial Pursuit tonight and one of the questions was "what oil would an herbalist place in a bath to help one to sleep?" Multiple choice answers were chamomile(?), lavender, or pennyroyal. Suddenly shadow016 and omnipaul start staring at me, both claiming that they ( Read more... )

Here is an almost painfully cute craft that I found and immediately thought of baphijmm.

Lizard Craft

So Hiruma has a new name: Baka-neko ( Read more... )

Blecky, Blahcky, and Bleak. And yes, I am aware that only one of those is an actual word.

( Mara )

May I please nominate whoever designed the folding pattern for tissue paper patterns for eternal damnation.

Well, I got my final papers back. A "B" on the Asian philosophy test and a "B" over all in that class. And an "A" on my Media Studies paper. I don't have the final grade in that class, but everything was an "A" with the possible exception of participation. I also missed 2 days of class that the syllabus says may drop a letter grade, so I am ( Read more... )

And I think that I am still alive ( Read more... )

So my glasses only took a week to come in. That is the shortest time that I have ever seen since about junior high, the last time that I had got bifocals. Last time, the only real problem I had with the bifocals was things like field hockey where I needed to look down at the ground (still a distance away) and still be aware of everything else. ( Read more... )