I know, I know, I only write here when I start pondering weird shit. Well, here I go again ( Read more... )

From the time I was about six until... well, probably until I was in high school, I actively looked for hidden things. Buried treasure, hidden compartments, secrets, rooms you're not supposed to be in. I loved time capsules and wrote letters to my future self. I wanted desperately to have a hidden panel in my room. I wrote in code ( Read more... )

I found, not my own second grade teacher, but the other second grade teacher on Facebook today. I thought to myself, wow, she looks pretty good for a woman who must be, what, 60 ( Read more... )

An argument I've been hearing a lot lately in response to the observation that someone is doing something strange, "Maybe they're disabled, you don't know!"

If you were doing something a bit out of the ordinary, would you rather that people thought you were stupid, or disabled? And what does that say about how we view the disabled?

I woke up this morning from an extremely extended dream sequence about meeting Neil Gaiman and his daughter at what my brain decided was a Jonas Brothers concert, but was in fact a much, much cooler holographic psychedelic rock band. They invited me to hang out with them and sing songs about lost puppies and kittens, make long and strange youTube ( Read more... )

Name Voyager is my favourite place to play online, lately ( Read more... )

I keep dreaming about dead babies ( Read more... )

I've been having a fascination for Pride and Prejudice lately. Namely because it has absolutely no appeal for me at all. I don't think it's terribly funny (with the exception of Mr. Bennet, I like him), I don't think it's romantic; it just doesn't do anything for me. Maybe if Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy were just one tiny bit more likable, but they' ( Read more... )

When I was in high school, one of my friends a year younger than me had a little brother who was about six years old ( Read more... )

I saw Back to the Future II for the first time the other day. I know, how can I, a child of the 80s, manage to have lived this long without seeing that? I've seen the first one and the third one a lot- the third one I may have seen in the theatre, but possibly just on an ABC rerun ( Read more... )