X-posted from _fcb_, for my own records

Hi all! stickmarionette posted a link to this awesome Luis Martín article in El País about Piquira, and it was so full of fabulous stories that I thought others might like to read it too, so a translation is below! Hope you all enjoy it. (I will say it does end strangely -- I looked because I thought I'd missed the ending ( Read more... )

(because I don't post about "my day" anymore ever.)

I googlemapsed my day and apparently we walked nearly 5 miles! Google tells me we could have walked this in 1.5 hrs if we had really FOCUSED. :-) Well, I was in heels. And easily distracted ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a bit so I thought I'd share this clip for shits & gigs ( Read more... )

I'm a complete softie, so this NYT article on an illegal immigrant made me tear up slightly by the time it was over. It's a total human interest piece, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, so I'm sharing.

( Harold Fernandez was different from most freshmen... )

Had dinner at Babbo on October 17th with Emmysue/Trazy and Danamae/Arf. Tweeted it instead of LJing it. Realized the downside of it is that it was hard to retrieve the tweets when I was trying to tell Finny & Su Linn about the meal. So dug them up, and will keep them here... a meal, in 140-char chunks ( Read more... )

I FINISHED THE HAT. It only took, what, a month? But FINISHED. Washed and blocked last night and dried overnight and it is exactly as I hoped it would look! I will try to get someone to take pics tomorrow. YAY.

Fort Worth this week, Tues-Thurs. Woke up at 4:45am to make the 7:30am flight. (Was ready to fall over by the time we left the office around 7:30pm.) Back on Thurs night at 10pm ( Read more... )

"Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" was on, and Ben and I got into an argument about one of the questions. It was something like "In the sentence 'Amy had finished her juice before she went to play', what is the helping verb?" I was all, wtf is a "helping verb"? I've never heard of that before. You silly Americani ( Read more... )

Or maybe some projects are just Projects of Pain ( Read more... )

Posted this as a comment on one of Trish's entries, and I figured that since I already went and wrote it out I might as well x-post here in case anyone else is interested (and also so I can find the posts later ( Read more... )