PostSecret, if you haven't heard of it, is this online community art project in which people write their secrets on homemade postcards, then mail them to this guy in Maryland, who puts them on the internet. Today he posted this testimonial in addition to the weekly batch of selected postcards ( Read more... )

Mac made Newsweek's "America's Hot Colleges ( Read more... )

So today, I decided to break all the rules and connect my iPod, Dottie, to the regular USB port because the USB 2.0 card just doesn't seem to work. And... now I have my own music on my iPod! Well, a lot of it, anyway; it's taking awhile because the regular USB port is slow, but it's much faster than Nothing. I am quite thrilled, if a bit ( Read more... )

"...And then, you have what the diseaseologists call 'something in isolation!'" --Stu, in a rant about keeping your VCR clean

This is the dress my mom is buying me. I am excited. I am going to have a little black dress and we're going to get rush tickets to the symphony. ($10 with a student id!) They're doing the Carmina Burana on August 6, and there's lots of other good stuff too.

Thank you, Mom.

Having a lovely day, despite extreme heat. (St. Paul, I thought we had agreed that in exchange for having a 5 month long winter, you would not have weeks of consecutive 90+ degree days in the summer. It was 98 degrees today. WE HAD A DEAL.) But anyway, had a nice little chat with my parents this morning. They got a kitten. (There are pictures ( Read more... )

This is interesting. It's like Where's George but with books -- people leave their books lying around with a little note and then other people find them and post a little journal entry about the book on the site, then "release" it again. My initial reaction when I was reading ABOUT it was that it was the most amazing thing ever, but upon closer ( Read more... )

I changed my journal title on the grounds that hey, I'm going to have cole porter songs stuck in repeat playing in my head until I die anyway. Cole Porter is my new dead gay boyfriend.

A muscle I never knew I had, right under my rib cage, has been very sore the past few days because of the way I sit on my bike. Ouchies.

so this is what I am really excited about ( Read more... )