I realized last night that it has been an inordinate amount of time since I posted or checked up on all you swell folk here at LJ. I blame this on my computer, which has decided to take hours to load this one site in particular, and this is the first time I've been able to get onto another computer. So it's very likely that my posts and replies are ( Read more... )

Yeah, in case you guys were interested, here's a picture my friend got of the doomlike clouds from the lightning storm. I'd like to note that this was taken at another beach, and they were much darker and scarier in Newport Harbor.


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So remember that thing about how you shouldn't go sailing during a lightning storm? Me and Barrett decided to screw it and went anyway. We should get turned back when there were scary clouds when we got there, but no. We should get turned back when the dinghy guy almost refused to take us out to the boat, but no. We should get turned back when it ( Read more... )

Yes, indeed. I stayed up all night writing and also the better part of today. I don't have any idea where this idea came from (well, I have a vague feeling it was inspired in part by 'Secret Life of Bees' and in part by 'Hairspray', but we don't have to talk about that). Point is, I now have about sixteen pages of a story that I don't know what to ( Read more... )

title: contrast
pairing: penny/seaweed, janetta/mo
summary: The first time he’d wanted to take his girl out, Seaweed had driven with Janetta and Mo across half of Baltimore looking for a cinema with only one entrance. The other two had laughed themselves near to death, and in the end he’d had to treat Penny to the diner on North Avenue.
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Jacked this one from twinsuns, who gets all my kudos even though I'm feeling too lazy right now to link her. :)

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you ( Read more... )

Beach didn't go as well as planned. Despite putting sunblock on every half-hour I am now burnt to a crisp on the back of my legs, my face, my entire back, my shoulders, and that awkward boob area. The pain is such a bitch. Also I am starting a new job at a boutique today, where you're supposed to be all happy and pretty. Here I am with the puffy, ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning at 6:30 to a large crash. At first I thought it was the construction going on across the street (tearing up our lawn and driveway in the process, I might add), but no. My sister was laying across my bed with the rat in one arm and the cat in the other, covered in rat food mix. There were magazines and DVD's and other random ( Read more... )

You know, I'm not going to lie, it's pretty damn good to see all you Pottheads back from the Twilight zone. I was afraid for a little while the era was over, especially with my, er, stoic resolve not to read SMeyer, but I guess you can always trust a little JKR loving to pull people back into it. If you haven't seen her canon Marauder oneshot ( ( Read more... )

It is hot. Like the kind of hot that makes me want to just walk around naked everywhere and even then I'll die of heatstroke. I woke up at 7:00 because it was already like 80 degrees and decided to drive down to the beach, but there was no room in the parking lot and I didn't want to have to park down the road and walk back so I just drove home. ( Read more... )