fyi: after seeing a huge hairy centipede waving its feelers around on your bed, scaring it into running off, and spending a good hour shaking out all the loose clothes and bedding on and near the bed looking for the damn thing, and not finding it.... check the clothes you're wearing. otherwise you will find yourself thinking "what's that vague ( Read more... )

jesse helms died today. i can without any shame whatsoever say that i reacted with unmitigated delight, and i don't make a habit of taking pleasure in the suffering or death of others. helms is the one person for whom i'll make an exception. jesse helms was a truly evil human being. this is the man who told a friend of his, a woman he'd known for ( Read more... )

well, i'm 31 today. yay! i'm amused by the pleasure and satisfaction i continue getting from finally being in my thirties. i've never been happier about a birthday than i was about my 30th, and i'm nearly as happy about this one. one more year away from my twenties! whoo! also i've been attracted to thirtysomethings since i was a teenager. ( Read more... )

a tv meme, picked up from jennyo

5 Awesome Women Characters
# Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
# Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy
# Leela, Futurama
# Helen Stewart, Bad Girls
# Erica Hahn, Grey's Anatomy

( more meme-age )

well, i'm still waiting to see if my house will burn. according to the fire map i've seen, the fire is less than half a mile away. they've dug a firebreak around my neighborhood, but the firefighters seem to be frightened that the fire will jump up the small canyon seperating our development from it. if it does, it will be in an area of fire-climax ( Read more... )

so, as i write this, there's a forest fire burning a mile or so, possibly less, from my house in california. my housemates were made to evacuate, along with a couple thousand other people. we live in a very heavily forested area - all evergreens, with a hell of a lot of highly flammable pines involved. the ground cover is very dry and it's been ( Read more... )

Oh my god ( Read more... )

so i'm in taiwan, staying with my dad (who lives here), having taken a leave of absence from the school-place. there's all kinds of work i should be doing, and while i did spend a couple weeks recently working hard (copy-editing a friend's 250-page dissertation, writing a conference paper) - and ended up giving my first conference paper to the ( Read more... )

well, i was a clinton supporter, but this is still pretty damn cool. who'd have thought? go leftist america ( Read more... )

ok now that i've praised him, i must point out two things martin does that drive me up the frickin' wall. but before i start, i must note - though i've read a lot about heraldry, i am not remotely a medievalist and at least two of you are, so please correct me if i say something totally off ( Read more... )