i have a new roommate: a small fluffy black kitten named desdemona, or desi for short ( Read more... )

nice things happened this week ( Read more... )

i was hearing fun things on the ship that i'm missing today, so i thought it might be time to tell some... ship stories! (dum dum dummmmm ( Read more... )

am i crazy for thinking of doing nanowrimo again?

i'll give everyone a minute to consider.

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see, i think it's crazy, but maybe that's just a manifestation of my madness? (aha! alliteration is the first sign ( Read more... )

according to the music nerd quiz, i am 59.66184% music nerdy, which makes me a "Mega Music Nerd". yay!

also, BIG NEWS! you can now find me residing in a little spot of my own at myspace! woooo! look me up, and friend me so i don't feel so lonely. the excitement is fairly killing me ( Read more... )

for some reason, i found myself on quizilla.com the other day... ah, those lovely silly online quizzes. well, they've redesigned their site a bit, and added an index of quizzes which i took a look at and concluded that those things are taking over the freakin' internet!

i am staggered by the amount of quizzes on this website. who are you, why ( Read more... )

chelsea may have convinced me to get a page on myspace.

maybe. watch this space for updates! well, not this space. maybe that one over there ( Read more... )

i've been reading the "missed connections" on craigslist. (a little sad, i know... they remind me of "i saw u" in the mercury -- or maybe ww, i can't remember -- in portland. i've always loved personal ads. i've never felt any urge to post or respond to one, except one in portland -- this guy was looking for a pulp fan to befriend. i figure he ( Read more... )

Dexter Mouse III, of the long-established Mouse family, considered himself a Renaissance mouse. He was well-read and -spoken, and raised his 25 children, half-children, and stepchlidren in the way he had been raised: with loving absentia. That being said, he was not one of those baby-eating mice -- no sir! That sort of thing was for lesser mice ( Read more... )

i'd forgotten how quiet it is in julian. all this time i've been thinking, "i'll be in my parents' new house in julian", and i had forgotten how all you can hear up here is crickets. ahhhh. after 4 months of waves and engine and (on particularly early thursday mornings) anchor, this is nice. if disconcerting ( Read more... )