Apparently this is too long to be a comment on Emily's journal, so instead it will just be an entry here ( Read more... )

Summerland by Michael Chabon
Staggerford by Jon Hassler
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Now Reading: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Time Traveler's Wife was utterly wonderful. I read the whole thing really slowly and soaked it all up, because it was so ( Read more... )

How have we all made it this far in our lives without incorporating bolo ties into our everyday wardrobes? This seems unacceptable. Does anybody want to join me in the revolution ( Read more... )

Crazy things happened at the drive-in tonight. Like dead car batteries and EXTREME lightning and pouring rain and three of us wedged into the back of my mom's minivan with piles of blankets and pillows and snacks. And sparking jumper cables. And the end of the Da Vinci Code fake-dubbed, since by then the radio had stopped working and the rain ( Read more... )

I think that the iPod people should come here and film me, and then pay me money, as I dance around my garage painting on a canvas that is clamped onto a ladder because I have no easel. I mean SERIOUS dancing. I'll be really embarassed if one of my parents comes out to "check on me" (SPY on my painting) and I am up dancing like crazy ( Read more... )

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Brave New World by Aldous ( Read more... )

Ryan North is my own personal god, because today he wrote this Daily Dinosaur Comic and made me laugh out loud. The cephalopods are back! Chillaxing! Ryan North, please come home to me ( Read more... )

It keeps happening and maybe it won't ever stop until I am old and grey and alone with my cats: engagements. Eeeek! Every time I hear about somebody my age (usually random people from junior high or high school) getting engaged, it scares me to no end. And a small part of me runs away to the hermit cave somewhere inside my heart, where they are ( Read more... )

Wireless internet on the deck is the second best thing in the world. Sweaters are first best. My cat is third, and guacamole is fourth.

So I honestly got paid 12 bucks an hour today to sit in Washington's drinking beer and laughing with three 30-something men. For more than FOUR hours. It was crazy, and great, and some good office bonding. Ok, office plus Phil ( Read more... )