"But every time I get up there, my adrenaline gets pumping, like I'm backed into the corner and I'm ready to get into a fist-fight. The bottom line is, I can talk my way out of a situation, or I can eat them, and if it comes down, and if it comes down to having to eat somebody, I'll eat somebody"You see," he told the archbishop, "I have a spear in ( Read more... )

Nothing feels quite so pretentious as attaching latin mottos to a livejournal entry. But damn it, I've been meaning for weeks now to thrust myself headlong back into horror, and I think about half of you know how terribly inspiring I'd find this one. *g*

We have ants. I remind myself that we have ants because this is Hot Springs and ants are ( Read more... )

Still alive ( Read more... )

Current theory: every time I cough, I loosen braincells and they come out with everything else. This explains my current level of stellar fucking idiocy, and justifies me slogging around the house wearing PJs and kleenex boxes for the better part of a week. Stupid cough. Stupid head. Took it all out in croaky snark on unfortunate telemarketers ( Read more... )

"HEY LADY PLS VOTE FOR OBAMA/BIDEN"
"oi roit mate kangaroo wot wot"
"oh shit she ain't american leave her be, leave her be"

teh end.

In our local k-12 school, that is. Latest numbers show Obama enjoying a substantial lead; his votes include our daughter's, who was very enthusiastic about the man.

We asked her why: "Because I like him!"
Okay. So we asked her what was good about him: "Because he's got a nice face and really good hairThis made it a little easier to explain to her ( Read more... )

First parent-teacher interview today, which we'd been looking forward to for ages; Vallory's teacher wasn't present for meet-the-teacher day at the beginning of the year, and we'd wanted to meet her ( Read more... )

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Following yesterday's ridiculous lazing about post-winter-shopping, this morning has been refreshingly productive. Work has gotten done, writing is percolating, products are flowing and the lounge room is looking sparkly, baby. Mister Zander must still be slightly bribed in order to eat a healthy breakfast early in the day (a twelfth of a cookie ( Read more... )

Have had my very first hurricane! ... okay, perhaps it was just a tropical storm. All those times I've mentioned how the cable endures bad weather well, only to crumple at the first hint of light drizzle, were finally proven out: it lasted solidly through the entire storm, so that we were actually watching the huge curves on radar as they slowly ( Read more... )