I've been thinking about LJ lately and considering posting here more often, but for the foreseeable future I can be found here.

I am home! It is nice. I have new contacts in and a new picture on the blog!  Among other things.
I am also happy that the election is over. I could talk about this for hours, but I won't because I like to keep my opinion to myself.

I love: looking at pictures from the summer.
I hate: the feeling after one goes to the eye doctor when one thinks one' ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing lately, but I have slightly more frequently been writing in the other blog, like I did yesterday. I'll repost it here because I feel like it and I'm about to take a nap. For those at PJ's party, this was immediately before Bobby and I showed up.

I hate waiting. Rob and I are in the computer lab patiently watching the big ( Read more... )

What kind of a weirdo walks into a public restroom, looks someone in the eye as they are coming out of a stall and then deliberately enters the stall that was just vacated even though all four other stalls are clearly unoccupied?

I encountered that weirdo today, obviously. She looked right at me. She bored holes into my skull with her laser eyes. ( Read more... )

Warm-and-enthusiastic girl is in my Thursday seminar, of course, and no one is surprised when it is her turn to finish the sentence “If you really knew me, you’d know that…” and she says, in her Tour Guide Barbie voice “…I just love teaching. I love it. I mean, I know that’s why we’re all here [... ] but I really really love it. And I don’t even ( Read more... )

I spent the whole morning trying to memorize the face I was making so that I could return to my cluttered new apartment and recreate the face accurately in the mirror. Sitting in a 10th and 11th grade English classroom of Unnamed Local High School, I couldn’t tell if the face reflected bemusement, indifference, distracted annoyance, rapt attention ( Read more... )

Today I did the nerdiest thing I’ve ever done, not counting the time I read a history of the Oxford English Dictionary for fun. Or the day I wrote a letter to my brother in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. Or the time I made my own Monopoly board, personalized to my friends. Or the summer that my brother and I taught ourselves Tengwar, the writing ( Read more... )

Perhaps when my dear roommate Mary scanned the classroom and failed to notice me sitting in the fourth row I should have let her sit in the back row by herself. True, both of us are independently predisposed to be look-diseasers and back-row-snickerers when left to our own devices, but when we joined forces and sat together (I don’t know how she ( Read more... )

I was already worried about smelling... unpleasant before I knew that I had another day to wear the same clothes I put on in Barrow. The same clothes I've been wearing (and washing!) for ten weeks. I normally don't care about this, but in the close quarters of a 757, I had only the comfort of my fellow passengers in mind. So I bought a t-shirt at ( Read more... )

As usual, I have spent the past few days composing paragraphs in my head. They are usually bloggy paragraphs, using my bloggy voice and my bloggy point of view for reporting the cold hard facts. As UNusual, the past few days have been exceedingly time consuming- and not filled with familiar events (otherwise it would be quite usual; we are always ( Read more... )