I'm getting annoyed/angry reading a comment thread over at feministe, and I thought I'd take one of the things that bothered me from the get-go and bring it here, where I'm reasonably comfortable that most of my f-list will agree with me. (This has very little to do with the actual post in question.)

When is lack of capitalization a stylistic choice ( Read more... )

Oops!  Sorry world!  Didn't get the message that I can't be both a hippie liberal feminist AND have Comic-Con jealousy ( Read more... )

If I am walking through the Savannah, and a lion decides to eat me- I'm not gonna say that I'm okay with that, as I'd prefer not to die.  I hope to high heaven that he makes it as quick and painless as possible while he's going about it.  However, it's not morally wrong for the lion to kill me and have me for breakfast.  Just a part of life I guess ( Read more... )

Ugh.  I just got a phone call from the Parks & Rec department about my garden plot.  Someone complained that I had planted in her space (number 38).  I said, no, I planted in spot 40.  And the woman was explaining to me where plot 40 was in relation to the walkway.  That is to say, she explained where I thought it was when I signed up for the spot ( Read more... )

So, on a whim, I waited in line for half an hour this morning to sign up for a city garden plot.  Yay!  I have an uber convenient spot- so convenient that there must be something wrong with it, because there's no way I should have gotten a spot right next to the water.  (So, later this summer when I complain about how everyone spills water on my ( Read more... )

Argh ( Read more... )

Status of sweater finishing-

I have literally less than 6 inches of 2x2 ribbing left, and then weaving in some ends.

I have not touched it in about 3 weeks....

The goal- finish before March.

I WILL DO IT.

Moving to Tucson sounds like a good idea today.

1. Put your iPod on shuffle, or your song list on your computer on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS! (Okay, I skipped a couple of songs because they really didn't make any sense at all, or the song title itself was something about podcase ( Read more... )

I bought a venus fly trap!  He's super-cute!  I hope I can keep him alive.  He's currently happy in his moist makeshift terrarium (like the instructions say ( Read more... )