I just used "disbursement" in an email in which I meant to use "dispersement."

It'd be funny except it was at work, with a colleague.

Ah hell it's still pretty funny. ;-)

The US Patent Office in D.C. opened in July after a six-year, $283 million renovation. The Patent Office is the home of the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/reynolds_center/index.cfmRead more... )

It's almost time for my annual trek to DC for the National Book Festival. I'm staying at a different hotel this time, and I cannot believe how beautiful it is... check it out.

http://www.monaco-dc.com/index.html

edited to add: It's definitely not the $36 Roadway Inn in Lubbock!

Jon Goode rocked my world last night. Too bad he doesn't like white girls, haha ( Read more... )

Spoken word poets should be banned from performing poems about being a spoken word poet or poems about poems.

I stayed up late last night trying to get organized for the rest of this week. I'm not going to have time to really do anything until Sunday, so I got my car filled up and washed, went to the grocery store, cooked a big pot of black bean soup for the rest of this week, cleaned, made my jello shots for
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Well this photo about sums it up... such a depressed part of the state.


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Something is way off with me. I think a nerve is pinched somewhere because my right leg *hurts*--mainly at the top where your leg meets your pelvis (but not the groin), but then it radiates down the leg... like my calf hurts a little, and sometimes my butt hurts on that side. It hurts so much that I am limping. But I'm also getting some random, ( Read more... )

I'm in Lubbock, at the prestigous Rodeway Inn, which I scored for a mere $36 per night ( Read more... )

So, the roaches are gone. yay. However, there was a ginormous wasp nest in the eaves of my porch this weekend. I was halfway through getting laundry to my car when I saw it, and then I was too scared to go back up there to get the other laundry basket from inside... so Mrs. Johns comes out with her "Texas Fly Swatter"--you know, one of those gag ( Read more... )