The good:

--I could have seen Kevin Costner in person today.  He did an impromptu Q&A for theatre department folks.  Famous people do it from time to time.  I didn't go for several reasons.  A) Space was limited, and I'd be cutting it a bit too close to get home in time for Jim to get to work.  B) I mostly wanted to go to see what in the world he ( Read more... )

I love it when someone is posting on a serious topic in a message board, and in order to convey that he/she disagrees with another poster, they begin their reply with "Dude." I love it because I automatically imagine them saying it aloud to their computer when they read the questionable material.  I also like it because I imagine how it would come ( Read more... )

Today was quite a long day...but it wasn't all that bad.  Even the bus was pretty ok.  It's astonishing, really, how little I can get outraged about for any lasting period of time ( Read more... )

Our car has a flat.  Again.  This is the third in less than two months--and the tires are all less than a year old.  Fuck a bunch of that ( Read more... )

The new semester starts tomorrow.  I feel remarkably blah about it.  More after the first sessions, I'm sure ( Read more... )

My god, I love tea.  This is my thought process regarding it at least five or ten times a day ( Read more... )

The new Decemberists track, a teaser called "The Rake's Song" off their new album, has me feeling very happy indeed. They really are one of my favorite bands.  I sometimes forget that the Decemberists, despite the attitude being a little to twee for my comfort, make music that just makes me feel satisfied.  And really, what more can you ask for ( Read more... )

So, as of the end of January, beginning of February, Jim is back with the IRS.  Huzzah! It's a shame that he didn't find anything permanent in the past 6 months or so since he was there before, but at this point we're so poor that I can't be anything but relieved ( Read more... )

*looks around at impeccably clean house, right down to disinfected plunger, wiped-down moulding, laundered kitty bed, and reorganized pantry ( Read more... )

I have been sick.  Quite sick, at times.  Saturday, my temperature hovered jin the 102-103 regions all day as I became more and more convinced that I was in my own version of "Jacob's Ladder." (Not only did I have a freaky high fever, but I kept on seeing shaking figures in my periphery all day.  Fun.) It has been a full decade since I've really ( Read more... )