Susanna pointed out that I like slow-growing things, and it's pretty true: just look at the turtle, who has grown a quarter of an inch in the last year; the bird of paradise I started from a seed 4 years ago (it'll have a flower in maybe 6 or 7 years); and the agave cactus--also known as a "century plant"--which will grow to approximately 6 or 7 ( Read more... )

"a gigantic steel vat exploded, spewing 2.3 million gallons of molten molasses. Thirty-foot waves of gooey liquid plowed through the streets, catching men, women, horses and vermin in its sticky flow, crushing freight cars, wagons and automobiles and reducing entire buildings to broken planks of wood ( Read more... )

After seventeen (almost eighteen) years of running around the nieghborhood, usually barefoot, gorging on blackberries, catching tadpoles, chasing various bugs, and imitating Monty Python fake horse with rootbeer cans and horrible accents, I found a bike path I didn't know existed. It's got these huge palm trees growing out of a choked creek and a ( Read more... )

My shoulder hurts. Might be because I fell on it and this big guy ran into it. Or might be a result of 4 hours of frisbee ( Read more... )

From April of '03, in fact. It's a quiz I swiped from Susanna's livejournal. The idea is to answer the questions with song lyrics from a favorite band--mine's the Goo Goo Dolls (you can tell 'cause there are 3 Goo pictures on my bedroom door, and only one of anyone else. There's 2 of Orlando Bloom, but then, he's not a musician. Back to the quiz ( Read more... )

"Other than chasing sunsets, one of life's simple joys--
--is playing with the boys"

In all likelihood I'll regret it, but I played two different Ultiamte games today, totaling 5 hours of running around chasing guys and frisbees. My legs are going to go on strike, I'm sure. But it was worth it.

At some point yesterday I had the bright idea to drag my dad and Ed over to the school to play frisbee with Jing. It was a great idea, excepet for the fact that the wind wanted to play too ( Read more... )

"In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes ( Read more... )

Gimble is terribly cute and curly and soft and tried to lick my ears off, after knocking me over, while Merlin (her father) lounged next to the window as if to say "I'm too old for this horsing around ( Read more... )