I must come out of hiding to wish the gorgeous, talented, amazing, fabulous, crafty, beautiful, artistic, and all around amazing human being that is grammardog a most excellent birthday!!! I am proud to call you my friend ( Read more... )

I was looking up a word on dictionary.com (a highly academic source) to make sure I was using it right because I'm kind of tired and it was a big, smart sounding word. There's nothing more embarassing than using a really smart sounding word in an utterly incorrect way.

Anyhoo, I looked up the word and below the definition was this picture:


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Tomorrow, June 27th, is National HIV Testing Day. If you're in Philadelphia and want to be tested you should come on out to any one of the bunches of sites doing testing all day and into the night tomorrow. Many sites offer rapid testing so you will get your results back in about 20 minutes. You can also search for testing sites in Philly by ZIP ( Read more... )

I thought you'd want a photographic journey through the making of the Peeps Pie. You're probably bored of hearing about it, but this is it, really. It's now in the fridge at work, waiting for people to eagerly devour it. The response has--I know you're shocked!--been kind of slow.

( SPEEPTACULAR! )

I just got an urgent phone call from punkymunky21 who informed me that we should all stop working and come to 16th and Chestnut, where, apparently, you can get your picture taken with FABIO!

I'm so pissed that I have clients scheduled to come in because, really, who wouldn't want their picture taken with this big chunk of man meat:

( he has bigger man boobs than I have... )

comment with something nice to say about someone on my friends list. all of the comments will be screened and i'll post the nice things you say, minus your name attached to it. izzycat made a poll to this same effect for her f-list, but i can't do polls anymore so this will have to do ( Read more... )

my eyebrows are out of control. i miss the days when whenpetalsclose would fix them for me. i am unskilled in this arena. clearly i need a personal eyebrow plucker...because when left to my own devices, they never turn out even. perhaps i should just get them waxed? but that scares me ( Read more... )

for those in the philly area who are interested in getting an HIV test, there's walk-in testing today from 9am-9pm at the washington west project (1201 locust st in center city). our mobile testing unit is also going to be out today from noon until 4 am at the following locations ( Read more... )

...i just realized that i have no idea if there's a linguistic/useage difference between "toward" and "towards". are both of them correct? in what contexts? i should probably know that kind of thing, but i don't. i'm sure i could find an answer but, instead, i posit this question to livejournal and i'm sure someone else will know. enlighten me ( Read more... )

i was just thinking yesterday that i'd like to try making some stuffed squash (i was thinking a cranberry walnut stuffing in acorn squash), as i got an acorn squash the other day and want to do something interesting with it.

then today j_mo and i were trying to make plans for seeing for your consideration (the new christopher guest movie, comes out ( Read more... )