Well, Matt's Fabulous Birthday Weekend is now drawing to a close... It was very enjoyable for all involved ( Read more... )

*primal scream ( Read more... )

Since I haven't posted anything but fluff for months now, I might as well continue: Tonight I spent my allotted "fifteen minute breaks" (which always go on for much longer than fifteen minutes) watching two Dutch kids' shows online:

Het Klokhuis and Willem WeverBoth were recommended to me by Rick when I asked about kids' shows he used to watch. So ( Read more... )

Hmm, perhaps I should post this in a Spanish language community, but for the moment I will just throw this out there for any of you on my list who are familiar with Spanish ( Read more... )

I think I must be the only person alive who thinks Julianne Moore is a bad actress. Yes, she is stunningly beautiful, and she has been in some very good movies, but I still can't stand the woman. Her ability to mimic accents is atrocious-- whatever the accent, she manages to slip in and out of it and sound completely affected. Cases in point: Ideal ( Read more... )

I wonder ( Read more... )

I have a $50.00 library fine. Fifty. Five zero. I turned the books in only a few days late, but the fine is $0.60 per day, and I had quite a few books checked out for all of my thesis research. I'm just speechless...

Some kind of chase involving a helicopter and a searchlight has been going on outside our apartment for the past 20 minutes or so. Matt and I stood outside on the balcony and watched, waving like idiots every time the beam from the searchlight passed over us. It was really bright! There was no sign of the criminal and no sound of sirens or gun ( Read more... )

One of 68024's posts just reminded me of this super-awesome link that my dad sent me the other day:

Dark Passage

You can get lost for hours on this site, though I haven't had too much time to do so lately. Apparently there was a great article in Smithsonian about this lady a while back, and she's got a book coming out at some point, as well ( Read more... )

I. Hate. Writing.

I hate my thesis, I hate deadlines, I hate the Olmec, I hate Spanish, I hate my damn uncomfortable chair, and I hate the two pop tarts and the grilled cheese that are currently swimming around in my stomach.

I am so burned out at this point that I never even want to hear the word "archaeology" again. Whose brilliant idea was ( Read more... )