I have been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks, and I was reminded about it this morning when a friend pointed out the Austin Chronicle article on McMansions this week. Here's the link: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/ ( Read more... )

The additional tests they did on my eyes revealed that I don't have enough cornea for lasik. They don't want to do lasik on people who cannot be corrected back to perfect ( Read more... )

This guy named Tom, who apparently is very involved in the poetry community of Austin somehow, was talking to me and the director of the museum today about all the poetry readings he's involved in around town...organizes them, he says. He's this older British guy, thick accent, pretentious ( Read more... )

So here I am with my car, being stupid. Let's play the game where everyone makes a caption for the photo.

I'll start. "Catwoman was ready to prowl until that unfortunate business of her hair getting caught in the door..."


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I went today to get screened for Lasik. My mother has been pestering me for a couple of years now to check into it. She wants to do this for me as a gift. I've put off looking into it basically because I was afraid the doctor would tell me it wasn't an option for me, or that they would finally discover some terrible eye disease that was causing my ( Read more... )

Lately I feel so motivated to take care of myself in all sorts of ways. It's like over the past year, I've allowed little errands pile up all around me until I have a mountain of things I *mean* to do, but never do... but all of a sudden, I am tackling them and crossing them off the list. It feels really good to do a little spring cleaning in my ( Read more... )

So they totaled my car (frikkin' Ford Expedition ( Read more... )

Boo--I was in a car accident yesterday that shattered my back window and caved in the back of my car. The Ford Expedition that hit me only suffered a bent license plate. wtf?

Yay--At least it wasn't my fault this time.

Boo--It's not going to work out with the boy.

We made the Austin 360's Carnaval video on their homepage!
http://www.austin360.com

Luke took this photo.


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I'm obsessing a little over the Carnaval costume. I worked and worked on it, and will work on it some more tonight and tomorrow. An exotic bird. It's royal blue and bright orange, and I designed and constructed it in my little workshop on West Mary, aka my kitchen. I am a little stressed out because I want it to be perfect and to look like what I ( Read more... )