I and my possessions are now quite comfortably installed in my new/old home, after a fairly incredible three-and-a-half hour move. For those amazed by the concept, the key ingredients were ( Read more... )

Spaghetti squash sauteed with roasted sweet potatoes, kale, sundried tomatoes, field roast apple sausage, and fresh marjoram and sage. It's delicious. Also (as not that uncommon for me), accidentally vegan. Will have to reprise this.

Apparently it is virtual snowflake-cookie day! setissma, kisa_hawklin, and shaenie, you are lovely, sweet people. Thank you! Also, I feel like this is the appropriate time to give a shout-out to my roommate, who left me a little bag of four Fleur de Sel Macarons from Pix, which is the one dessert, that, no lie, can nearly bring me to tears every time. So clearly, it has been ( Read more... )

Mom [noticing muted TV news]: You know, we really could just turn this TV off -- wait, let's see what the weather is, that's the only part that really matters.
Weather Anchor [as he's unmuted]: ... Details in a minute.
Mom [rolling her eyes and hitting the power button]: Tease.

Just woke up from an intensely vivid dream about having taken in four really smart and really skittish siblings, ranging probably from about five to about fourteen in age, who had washed up into the social service system. I'm not sure if I was a caseworker or worked at a program, but I was the one who made the first real connection with them. It ( Read more... )

Oh man, I blearily clicked on a link from Go Fug Yourself and ended up at this Robert Pattinson photo set.

Seriously, people: click it. It's almost magical. I'm not saying the guy's not good-looking, but flipping through the shots is like watching Kermit the Frog doing Blue Steel. I can't decide if I hope he's kidding or I hope he's not.

I've been up for more or less the last twenty hours (hooray for car alarms at 3:42 am!), and I should have gone to sleep at least a half an hour ago, but someone linked me to Fugitivus (FYI, contains material related to sexual assault) and I've been working my way through the posts there. Right now, I've got a tab open with the collaborative list ( Read more... )

Half a bottle of olive oil and half a bottle of Dawn, and an hour and a half later I've maybe, finally got most of the Murray's Hair Oil out ( Read more... )

I just spontaneously taught myself the bassline to Radiohead's "There There." Now I just need two guitarists, a drummer, and somebody who can sing it until I get used to the rhythm and can sing it myself. I think the pedestrians wandering by are really amused by me rocking out in my living room.

Four jobs applications completed in one morning and two evenings of work. Last one submitted 10 minutes before electronic filing ended. Sincerely hope no embarrassing typos escaped me. Even more sincerely hope I get called back for at least one of them, as I would kick ass and take names ( Read more... )