it is the birthday of the pixigoth, and as such, felicitations are in order.

happy birthday mel! :)

whilst standing in line for the self-checkout at the grocery store earlier, i noticed that the girl in front of me had a case of beer in one hand and what looked like an empty handbasket in the other. upon subtly shuffling closer to her, i was rather amused to see that the handbasket contained nothing but two pregnancy tests and a huge piece of ( Read more... )

no, seriously: remember the race i ran in last year? i did it again today, after not having run for over three weeks, and not having entirely seriously made an effort to run over the summer, and i clocked in eight seconds slower than i did last year. i still ran the whole thing, which was my main goal, and my friend kim was kind enough to throw ( Read more... )

so i'm sitting in what will eventually be the room i share with the other graduate TAs, snacking on some carrots and generally killing time before a meeting with my 101 professor so we can go over who's teaching which section and, i hope, what exactly it is we're expected to do. this is all pretty terrifying - grad school starts tomorrow, and i ( Read more... )

1) willingness to tolerate stupidity now seems to be inversely proportional to that day's caffeine consumption. this is a problem ( Read more... )

my roommate is out of town for the weekend, and asked the remaining roommate and i to water the gardens while she's gone, and i'm happy to say that mother nature has decided to take care of that for us today. it's pouring right now, which is good because we need the rain badly; at this point, though, we'd have to have about a week's worth of rain ( Read more... )

no spoilers here, just that i was up until 4am today finishing it (my weekend didn't quite proceed as planned) when i had to be up for work at 6am (oops) but it was absolutely worth it. it's done the impossible task of replacing GoF as my favorite of the series ( Read more... )

i live: per usual every time i move, i have no internet at home right now and it's not the most ideal circumstance, and i'm almost at the end of my rope trying to fix it. i'm thisclose <> to just buying a new computer, like, tomorrow and saying "to hell with it all", but i think i might want to wait to get paid first. it's going to happen, sooner ( Read more... )

i'm here! i'm alive! i'm on vacation right now! that actually means nothing more than i've just taken the week off; i've not done anything much save laundry and sleep in a whole lot, but it's nice. streetcar opens this week; we've a pre-preview tonight, the official preview tomorrow, and opening night on friday. it's been a long and sometimes ( Read more... )

the funding offer from grad school is in, and it's not at all bad: i'll be a TA for one class, teaching 3 hours a week, with my full tuition and health insurance paid and a decent living stipend. i've heard that what i've got is luxurious compared to students in some other departments, so i consider myself very lucky. this is not to say i won't ( Read more... )