So I apologize to everyone whose life I've not commented upon, recently. I just realized now that I've been logged out of LJ for the last couple weeks, and I didn't realize this before because I haven't had my precious internet times ( Read more... )

Oh yes, yes I can.

Interpol - "No I in Threesome", from Our Love to Admire
Okkervil River - "John Allyn Smith Sails", from Stage Names
Saturday Looks Good to Me - "Hands in the Snow", from Fill Up the Room
Spoon - "The Underdog", from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The New Pornographers - "All the Old Showstoppers", from ChallengersIf you only download one, ( Read more... )

I skipped out on the apparently obligatory post-graduation anxiety/unemployment phase of my life by immediately going to work on a farm and then at Slow Food and then traveling to Japan, but my horrible, horrible mind has recently made me aware that this period is, in fact, obligatory because, fuck, I am stuck now.

I am back from Japan. I slept four hours last night because my body was convinced it was midafternoon. Silly body. Mr. Alpaca is with me. I am confused.

Major Cities Visited
Kagoshima
Miyazaki City
Hiroshima
Kyoto
Tokyo

Books Read
Ada, or Ardor, VictorVladimir Nabokov
The Deptford Trilogy: The Fifth Business, Manticore, World of Wonders, ( Read more... )

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I am in Japan. It is gorgeous. I have many stories, but no time to tell them. We will see how impoverished this whole trip makes me, but I am thinking very. More later.

Oh, yeah. Shrimp ice cream? Just as gross as advertised.

In case you were wondering, yes, the GRE is for bitches. I had a nose running like an Olympic team and they would only let me take two tissues at a time into the testing room. And only ETS standard issue tissues (from an Office Depot box). Why? I don't know. I told the lady that I wouldn't try to make a shiv out of them, but apparently this is ( Read more... )

Last night Lexi the weimaraner attacked a skunk. Right outside my room. Smart, Lexi. Normally the sentence "Don't Febreze the dog" is one that has no place in conversation. Normally. Goddamn mustelids. They think they are so smart with their musk glands. I hates them ( Read more... )

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