I always have trouble telling seasons in Northern California, where we don't have spring and fall so much as periods of slightly less emphatic weather. It feels like summer - the days have lengthened, and it hit 100F/38C a few days ago. Summer technically starts in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, but I think we can all agree that's a lie ( Read more... )

It's really kind of weird to watch promotional clips and interviews for Kings because it seems like everyone is trying very, very hard to keep from saying that the show is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of David and Jonathan. Like, to the extent that I have seen a lot of blog entries where people are saying 'What, hey! I had no idea Kings ( Read more... )

I've been having a bad few weeks in terms of pain, and of course that eventually compounds to a point where transferring thoughts into comprehensible strings of words is sort of difficult. (And as I've mentioned to clarify, being misunderstood is my KryptoniteI did find one work-around earlier today, where I was having almost no luck describing a house ( Read more... )

So it is 2009! Apparently. There's nothing like preparing to fly somewhere on New Year's Day that totally screws up your sense of time. I keep blinking at my watch's date function in confusion, wondering how exactly it became the 2nd ( Read more... )

I promised Sar that I would post my holiday music mix, although in my brain I'd been holding out because - I'm going to be there! Right in her house! VERY SOON. And in my brain this equals, 'I will bring the mix to them!' Except, duh, I will be there post-Christmas, although Sar promises we can extend the holiday shenanigans through New Year's ( Read more... )

It is so much easier for me to post in list format you would not believe.

1.) I just danced around my room for an entire hour and I recommend this to everyone, seriously. I mean, if it will not cause you bodily harm, then you should really go put on loud music and dance. Right now. YOU WILL BE WARMER. (I'm trying to take more advantage of those ( Read more... )

Here are five things that I would love for you to keep in your medicine cabinet. If you aren't a big fan of Western medicine, that's fine, and there are many alternative treatments that work perfectly well for a lot of people. (Wild yam root is great for nausea, by the way.) But still - the next time you have a stomach bug you're probably going to ( Read more... )

Proposition 8 passing in California, effectively banning all same-sex marriages from this point forward (and, possibly, nullifying those already performed, it isn't clear yet), was one of the few things that didn't surprise me in this election ( Read more... )

I started crying when I woke up at 7pm and saw that Obama was leading McCain 200 to 130.

I don't think I've completely stopped.

I am so fucking proud of my country.


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