wow.  i want to rent this place just so i can have this brilliant person for a landlord:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/375194877.html

i am bored with my look.  but who knew being a redhead was so, so...  interesting??

however, this bit of folklore is questionable:  "According to Montague Summers, red hair and green eyes were thought to be the sign of a witch, a werewolf or a vampire in Eastern and Southern Europe ever since the Middle Ages"

bah.

big thanks to p for agreeing that i definitely need to start wearing these to wurk:

http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude/x/blogger/3841/751/1600/271148/ActionJeans650.jpg

very cool.

tales from the cube:

co-slacker A:  have you seen J today?

me:  i haven't...  actually, i haven't talked to her since last week!

a:  is she still on vacation?

me:  i'm not sure.  i didn't know she was on vacation!

a:  ...because, i thought she was due back today.

me:  i dunno.

a:  do you know if she is sick?

me:    i dunno.  haven't talked to her since ( Read more... )

very few things in life give me 'goosebumps'.  not like the kind you get when you are scared, but the kind you get when you are very deeply moved.  i can count a handful of sunsets, my nephew's first smile, my brother's first day home from boot camp among the few events that triggered goosebumps in me.

but then there is dancing.

i have been ( Read more... )

for recycled swappy type stuff i found these sites:

www.freecycle.org

and www.titletrader.com

cool.

first, we have jessie davis - pregnant mother in ohio that goes missing, is found about a week later, her boyfriend (and baby daddy) accused of killing her - in front of their son, even ( Read more... )

i'm a *bad* hippy...   despite my religious use of canvas fabric shopping bags at the grocery store, returning used/empty makeup containers to the cosmetics counter, getting 50% of my electricity from renewable sources, i am bad for the planet.

you see, i have an insatiable appetite for magazines.

i don't know what it is.  it seems like as i get ( Read more... )

although i *am* committed to change, i'm not quite ready to give up steak...

you can take the girl out of texas....

anyway, this is a great 'nod' regardless.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_en_tv/people_dalai_lama_irwins

nice:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18039615/