yay.

For awhile there it looked like the Marshall Planet fruitflies (hey, we should make a baseball team or something) were dying out, but when I was washing my breakfast dishes this morning (ok, it was noon but whatever), I noticed we'd had a veritable Baby (Larva?) Boom. Ew ( Read more... )

It's a good thing I didn't get my hopes up by believing weather.com yesterday when they predicted 4-6 inches of snow for today, because it is totally 38 degrees and raining.

At 3 am, the windchill is expected to be 6 degrees. I'll try to be inside.

Graduation is 6 months from today.

Wow.

This afternoon, after a whopping half hour of not-very-productive practicing (I'm supposed to learn to change pitch with my brain, not my my throat. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT), I realized I was trapped in the practice room because the latch on the door had fallen out, leaving a little metal bar blocking the place where the latch should have been ( Read more... )

Name:LA CIENEGA
Meaning: The Swamp, Marshes
Gender:F
Origin: Spanish

The worst part is it's SPELLED WRONG. I hope any mother who decides to call her kid that because babynames.com told her it was a real name does her research and finds it should be spelled La Ciénaga, because otherwise it'll JUST LOOK STUPID.

You know what the post office released today? Muppet stamps!!!!

Life is good. Perhaps I shall buy some and put one on my rent check, which constitutes the vast majority of my correspondence.

aardvark_gumbo continues to cope with empty-nest syndrome by putting up old family pictures on his new domain, which is just fine with me because we were so dang cute ( Read more... )

Aren't cabell and I the cutest thing ever?


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I have a cold, and my sinuses hurt. I'm a little miffed at the timing of this thing -- I have to sing all weekend at choir retreat, and I wanted to try out for the solo in the Debussy piece, and I just don't know if I'll have the voice for it with all this extra snot. We'll see, I guess.

Today I learned that in Brazil they say "Beleza," beauty, ( Read more... )