OKAY THE WEATHER IS SUPER-NICE NOW.

IT IS OFFICIALLY PICNIC WEATHER.

Okay then. Next Saturday, noon at the Volunteer Park Conservatory for a totally gracious fancy-pants* picnic time on the grass? And then moseying on over to the cemetery to read the notes people leave on Bruce Lee? Let me know how this suits y'all.

* Actual fancy pants TOTALLY  ( Read more... )

Aigh. If Harry Dresden whines even once more about how being touched by a woman in the most trivial capacity is SOOOOO NIIIIICE and how it's been SOOOO LOOOOONG, I'm going to mail Jim Butcher a goddamn fleshlight ( Read more... )

Nothing like yumming through a cup of chicken soup and finding out the crunchy bit you thought was a coriander seed is a vertebra. *chew* *chew* *mnch* OMGWTFBATMAN.

I have discovered the best song that has ever existed in any place and in any time, and by "I" I mean "Ariel" but this is my journal so you know. I mean I was right there when she told me about it and everything.

And by "right there" I mean "at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", which is a lie, but we were driving past one for real. It's on ( Read more... )

Today, 35 feet off the end of the pier at the Seattle Aquarium, I got to see a gray whale. Three times. It looked like an adolescent in size ( Read more... )

Meet Oscar. Oscar the racing snail. Oscar has little goggles to protect his eyestalks in races.


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Slow night on Real-Time 911. I don't think my firetruck boyfriend, Engine 13, has been out once all day.

So any excuse to wear an enormous floomfy skirt-ass is a good one, and as it happens I've just found one. Check it out ( Read more... )

What the hell is wrong with me? A nice cozy hour reading medical-error websites and now I'm lurking around on Real Time 911 (oooh, Engine 13 is at a call just two blocks away! There's a medical emergency at 24-Hour Locksmith on Broadway! Looks like something serious happened to someone at the retirement home on 2821 Walden...) and cross-referencing ( Read more... )

Just watched some neat pseudo-clockwork bellydancing, which I will now share with you:

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Cool, no? Also lulzing at "steampank". :D Makes me really want to learn how. That little hip-twitch, I cannot do that no matter how hard I try. There must be some sort of ancestral hip-twitching secret.