The news of the week is that I got accepted to UT Austin. So that's cool. Sometimes I'm really excited about it, I'll look at the massive, massive course catalog online and get all hyped up about the weirdo-random-niche-knowledge classes I could take: like the History of New Orleans, or Introduction To the Yoruba Language. Then there's Bengali ( Read more... )

I'm eating nori. You know, the seaweed paper you use to wrap sushi rolls in. It makes the same sound when you chew it as walking through leaves in the fall. It feels like you're chewing some kind of spawn of saran wrap and tinfoil for about half a second, then it becomes rubbery mushy and awesome. It also some how leaches your mouth of all ( Read more... )

I had a really great talk with another girl at work today whose household is also on food stamps. Only our kind could understand the desperation of the week between using up last month's and the renewal of next month's, leaving you with a gap of several days in which buying stuff seems really just sort of silly. I mean, it'll all be free pretty ( Read more... )

So many thousands of different worlds! Here I am, and sometimes when I'm walking down the street I realize that despite all the buildings and cars I'm living in the desert. And palm trees are everywhere, but people landscape their front lawns with cacti. Every time I see a new species of cacti I haven't played with yet, I test how sharp it is ( Read more... )

I woke up at nine. I got up, took a shower, walked back towards the bed and kissed Matt as he made noises like a baby grizzly bear and tried to pull me back in. Luckily, his motor skills suck when he's asleep, but I laid down next to him because...because, because, you know how it goes. He looks so young when he's asleep, before he can form words ( Read more... )

Well, well, well. Look who's here ( Read more... )

Yee-ha! Here I am, in sunny San Antone. I'm gonna start this bitch up again. Just you's all wait til I get an internet connection of my very own...sometime next week? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Because public libraries rock, but not as much as being able to livejournal every two hours on a muggy day with root beer and nothing else to do. ( Read more... )

Since I am unable to attend Emily's party in the flesh, I must present my internet birthday present to M and Mal via livejournal. In anticipation of this moment, I looked at a variety of internet thesauri for synonyms of 'voila' but nothing came up. Oh well. Bon miru!

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I'm in a show called Ugly Ducklings. Here are the details ( Read more... )

On Monday we flew to Florida. Our airline had enormous paintings of a leering Elton John on the side of all its jets: The slogan alternated (depending on the plane) between “Bennie and Our Jets” and “The Answer In the Sky”. So glad we chose the Elton John-themed airline ( Read more... )