Being teased for being gay might be an insult if I wasn't madly in love with the awesomest guy on the fucking planet.

Instead it was a joke, one that amuses me very much :-)

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The requisite undergrad has been killed in the light of the new moon with a hammer and sickle from Communist Russia, and their blood boiled into ink. Reeds from the pond in Burnet Woods were harvested at midnight and made into papyrus, and a sacred bird in the Himalayas was hunted down and plucked and their feathers turned into quills that my ( Read more... )

It's been a busy couple of months ( Read more... )

From Crew Dogs:

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Stolen from lost_logic

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

From Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by ( Read more... )

I was out at a barbecue when the storm hit out of nowhere - until 1PM Sunday, all the forecasts I heard were for rain Thurs/Fri/Sat, then Sunday would be clear. It wasn't so bad to be out in, actually - you'd get a rough gust and try and hold everything down, then be fine for fifteen minutes. Apparently the winds were much worse above house level; ( Read more... )

NBC and their Olympic monopoly can go to hell. Not only are they heavily editing the feed and making sure we cannot see any of certain people (presumably because they're not "popular" enough), they're also not offering any video online of the actual competition. It's just their TV coverage, and then their selected edits of certain divers diving. To ( Read more... )

After Sarah's eminently successful "I survived grad school!" party, a few of us went to Jenny Taylor's to play in her pool and indulge in Phelpsmania ( Read more... )

"My Willow lies over the ocean
My Willow lies over the sea
My Willow lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my Willow to me"Will called me on his way to Nashville to start the JET process and wing off to Hokkaido. He sang to me as he drove, adapting "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" to our situation. He asked if it was a sad song ( Read more... )