Some jerk hit a dog on my street about an hour ago and didn't even stop. Of course, me being an animal lover with no self preservation instinct, as soon as I heard the "thump" I ran out into the road at rush hour to wave cars away... well, at least I didn't get run over! Two nice women stopped and we took the poor dog to the (ludicrously ( Read more... )

Durrhurrr, I've sort of been mentioned on fandom_secrets. I feel like I've become a real person! Even being on the periphery of wank fills me with a strange sense of pleasure...

er, even if it was several days ago and I wouldn't have noticed at all if someone hadn't anonymously emailed me about it... hahaha

My brain is packed to its maximum capacity. ~_~ I'm not really nervous about taking the GRE test, because I'm one of those freaks who genuinely enjoys taking 4-hour standardized timed exams. No kidding. But that means I also take sick enjoyment in practice math questions and vocabulary drills. It's a rare chance to engage the high-pressure ( Read more... )

I'm not dead, I just feel like it! Haha, maybe I'm getting old, but it seems like Otakon is more and more exhausting every year. And now I have an email backlog to face. (~_ ( Read more... )

One of our family friends is really into new age stuff - palm reading, crystal healing - and she works at a occult/holistic/withcraft shop down the road from my house. Generally I think that new age people are generally harmless and sweet, and even if I raise an eyebrow at people who stuff their bras with magic rocks, I figure that they have a new ( Read more... )

I just tried one of those frozen lemonade things from Panera, and it was so cold that "brain freeze" would be a serious understatement. More like "whole body freeze." I was writhing in pain on the table and for a moment I thought my heart would stop or something. Which was actually kind of cool. I think maybe my life is too boring if my only ( Read more... )

So... my hotel in Croatia is awesome, but the internet jack in the wall appears to be broken so I'm at an internet cafe. x__x Hopefully I will have internets as soon as I get to Slovenia! I'm shrivelling up and dying without it! But Croatia is definitely the most beautiful country I have ever seen. It's all coastline, and the Adriatic Sea ( Read more... )

Okay, it's officially Sunday now... so MONDAY, I'll be headed off to Eastern Europe! Right now, I'm trying to cram a clarinet and a laptop into one bag so they will count as a single carry-on item. It's sort of a working trip since the BSB will be playing several concerts. I wish my economic stimulus check had come in time, though... *sigh* I'd ( Read more... )

Hey, fellow Marylanders, June is FREE CAT MONTH at the SPCA. FREE CATS. FREE CATS.

That's like advertising FREE COCAINE outside a rehab center.

( The new addition, bringing the cat total back up to SEVEN... )

Well, after a long and sordid tale of issues at work, I finally managed to get fired. (My reaction was "ah, you beat me to it!" because I was planning to quit within a week or two, but still...) Last Thursday, the patient that I was supervising in a crowded hallway broke free of my hold and slapped a doctor's butt, so now he's claiming that a ( Read more... )