I successfully played an F chord on my guitar! This is a major event ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying the Toothpaste for Dinner archives right now. This one made me think of shannonwest and her recent linguistics party: grad student parties ;)

Pontius Copilot.

hee. :)

I am staring at a shirt. Possibly the last shirt that I will ever tie dye; certainly the first. Truly, it is a thing of hideousness ( Read more... )

I am delighted to find that someone I went to school with remembers me as "tall cool (pale) Lauren". that's a grand description. From another cool person, no less. Hoorah. :)

I have a headache the size of Wyoming, and I missed a very important meeting this morning without a good reason. I was up a bit late working and goofing off, and then I had insomnia, and couldn't sleep until 8 am (one of my roommates starts making a lot of noise at 5 am, which didn't help). I then slept through both my alarm and my backup alarms ( Read more... )

I tried to make myself a smoothie today (As AB notes, it's probably a bad thing when your story starts out with "I tried..."). I put in some yogurt and a banana, and bits of fresh fruit that were around. Then it was very very thick, and I wanted to add some juice to thin it out properly. So I added a bit of water, and then tried to chip away at ( Read more... )

curses!
I lost hold of my donut
(tasty donut)
and losing hold of it
I fumbled
reaching after it too late.

(it looked so light and fluffy
contained in its little box
behind the plastic window
- but who’d’ve guessed it would fall up
instead of down?)

I watched the ( Read more... )

From browngirl, via jezredfern:

Instructions, a very lovely poem.

And, more in the (highly amusing/bizarre/short) comic book vein, it's Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of The Emperor Heliogabolus.

Wow. thanks to mactavish for pointing me at this.
The Pi Proof of Penzance (a proof of the irrationality of pi, to a well-known tune)