First, if anybody wants a postcard while I'm in the UK this summer, comment with your address! Comments are screened, so the dark forces of the internet won't learn where you live. (EDIT:  I may unscreen comments without addresses.)

Next, while I don't know how much time I'll spend online while traveling, I will be attempting to maintain a travel ( Read more... )

STAR TREK ZOMG!  I really enjoyed that movie.  It wasn't flawless, but overall I thought it was pretty damn fantastic.  As a person who hasn't paid much attention to Trek for years but watched it A LOT when I was in middle school or so, I give this movie an emphatic live long and prosper sign.

( Random thoughts, containing SPOILERS and squee! )

 I'm going to enter internet near-silence for a few days.  I'm on spring break from work (gotta love those education job calendars), and I'll be using the week to drive up to Redwood National Park.  I'm hoping to spend some awesome quality time with big trees and wild coasts.  The hostel won't have internet of any sort, and while I may stop into ( Read more... )

Animal sightings of the week ( Read more... )

Despite my best intentions, it's been a while since my last update. So, here's a bunch of stuff in one post.

The weekend before last, I went up to the Bay, staying with runnerchild and withunderscores and attending the birthday party of fruslug and Evil. The weekend was absolutely splendid. I laughed until I couldn't breathe, saw Chewbacca walking down the street, ate ( Read more... )

I drove to San Luis Obispo on Friday afternoon. It had been raining off and on most of the day, which the land needs desperately. The clouds were lovely, and the lighting made the new grass on the hills an incredibly vivid green. Partly there, I spotted a rainbow so impressive I had to pull over to look at it. A complete arc of color seemed to ( Read more... )

Happy New President Day! I am so full of joy today. America has a president we can be proud of. We have a president who gives great speeches and understands ambiguity. We have a black president in the lifetimes of some who endured segregation. We have a president who is not George Fucking Dubya Bush. Times are dark in many ways, but I am ( Read more... )

San Luis Obispo had a big contra event this weekend.  Once again, I failed to register in time to do the whole weekend, but I volunteered to help with snack setup earlier tonight in exchange for dancing on Friday night.  The band, the Groovemongers, was wonderful.  An expensive dancing weekend attracts a more advanced crowd than the usual monthly ( Read more... )

Copied from Neil Gaiman's blog, because I really liked it:

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you dream dangerously and outrageously, that you make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked. And most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the ( Read more... )

Well, that was Christmas.  Seeing church friends at the annual youth choir alumni reunion thing on Christmas Eve was grand, as usual.  Rain poured down--not greeting card Christmas weather, but a gift the land needed.

Christmas was quiet.  My parents stuck my eagerly awaited Doctor Who S4 DVD in the bottom of a HUMONGOUS box filled with packing ( Read more... )