Sitting on the bus, getting ready to leave Chicago after a nice long weekend with Dustin.

Thursday night we drank some beers, ate some pizza, and watched tv. It was pretty great.

Friday Dustin made vegetarian Cincinnati chilli, which was basically one of the greatest things I've ever eaten. After dinner Dustin's friend Katie came over to join us in ( Read more... )

I partied my fucking face off all weekend, and as a result I'm pretty fucking tired and I have some mysterious respiratory shit going on today, but it's all worth it.

Friday night I picked Dustin up in Ann Arbor and we came home to watch infomercials, drink wine and eat eggplant and on Saturday we met up with my college crew (Alena, Amy, Rebecca, ( Read more... )

Yesterday my Dad sent me an email telling me it was Lynn's birthday "reminding" me to send to send an ecard ( Read more... )

( Sour Grapes Make the Best Whine )

So I'm looking to fly into Detroit on the 26th (yay!) but (un?)fortunately my Dad will be in MD, he will be flying, rather than driving which is good, in that it means I will have a car to drive around in. (More yay ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a call that the pictures I sent in with my passport were the wrong size, so I needed to bring them to the embassy today:

Me: Okay, what size do they need to be?
Embassy lady: Five by seven.
Me: Five by seven what?
Embassy lady: Passport pictures, goodbye!

And she hung up. Curiously "the passport picture" is not a unit of measurement, but ( Read more... )

-Yesterday at the library the librarian asked me what Hebrew sounds like, which is a hard question to answer with anything other than "What?" He wanted to know, essentially, if it sounds "nice." I was pretty much like, "Well I think all languages sound basically neutral." He insisted that some languages sounds prettier than others with the usual ( Read more... )

As you make your way home from the cafe, someone may shovel a shovel full of mud from a rooftop, about half of which smacks you in the cleavage, leaving you to walk the next half mile home like you're coming home from a kinky bachelor party.

I have no idea the provenance of the roof mud, and yes, that concerns me.

So my sister got a promotion she really wanted recently granting her some minions, and will soon have an official podcast type deal to promote her game. When we talked on the phone about it, she was early arriving to work because she was too excited to sleep, and has since confessed that she's embraced the familial workaholism (sample anecdote: my ( Read more... )

"--Every voter who is on the list can participate-- dead or alive ( Read more... )