I turned 24 yesterday. Break out the walker, the knitting needles, and the crossword puzzles. Actually, I hate crossword puzzles, and I'm terrible at knitting, but the walker could be cool. To celebrate, my family came up and we went to Tangerine Cafe. Then we hung out at my apartment, where they gave me my birthday gift: a blender and a whole ( Read more... )

Been a bit of a frustrating week at work, but hey, it's the weekend! I have no plans whatsoever, and I plan to enjoy every minute of it. Last weekend was perfectly lovely, as I got to spend the day with good friends, many used bookstores, and lots of delicious food. Now my groaning bookshelves and meager bank account tell me sternly that I am ( Read more... )

This week of intense productivity made up for the astounding lack of constructive achievement last week, I think. I love that feeling of accomplishment; I think if everyone realized how fantastic it was, a lot more would get done in the world. Now if I could just figure out a way to be done with this nagging cough, I'd feel REALLY accomplished. ( Read more... )

I was driving home from visiting my parents last weekend, and a huge chunk of snow fell off of an overpass and smashed into my windshield. Since I duck and generally freak out when a leaf hits my windshield, you can imagine my reaction, but fortunately I confined the spastic evasive maneuvers to my lane, and everyone lived to see another day! Don ( Read more... )

Events of the week! They included spending the majority of my lunch hours in the DMV again and having good times with friends, including an ill-advised but pretty fun outing to the golf course to see the lunar eclipse on the solstice. Regrettably, none of us gained superpowers from the experience, and my suggestions to sacrifice a goat or a ( Read more... )

From Thomas Babington Macaulay via Doctor Who ( Read more... )

When last we left our heroine, she was bereft of employment and fretting over how to pay rent. Not so this week! In an extremely unlikely set of circumstances, I interviewed for and got one of the jobs I applied for the day after I found out I was out of work. I start my position as an administrative assistant for a not-for-profit organization ( Read more... )

I love driving in the fall because, when I first start out, the leaves on my car stream back over the windshield, and it reminds me of going into hyperspace in Star Wars.

My friend Anne Elisabeth's second book, Veiled Rose, is available for preorder! You should check it out.

Some lovely photography for you to peruse.
The annotated Sherlock, an ( Read more... )

The other day I saw the saddest thing in the world: an overweight, middle-aged man in grungy clothes, standing by the dumpsters of a gas station late at night, scratching at a lottery ticket. Better luck next time, mister. Or perhaps better luck next life; this one does not seem to have been good to you ( Read more... )

So I went with some friends to see Inception at the dollar theater a week or so ago. Then I went the next night and saw it again. I thought it was pretty magnificent. It’s generally taken up residence in my thoughts for some reason, and I’ve been mulling over it a lot and forming a lot of opinions. Now you have to suffer through them ( Read more... )