You figure with my religious use of sunblock I would have it pretty much down pat by now, yes ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of lending people storage space is that they leave a lot of things behind, and sometimes that's a lot of junk, and sometimes it's really really cool things. Like a mig welder on a little cart! So instead of buying 30 tomato cages, this morning after yoga I came home, strapped on the biggest gloves I could find, and welded ( Read more... )

Yay, my sculpting tools have arrived! I've been working with fabric for so long I had forgotten I have other slight talents. Heh, and miniature sculpture takes up a hell of a lot less room than commandeering the hallway for the cutting out of schmancy clothes, let me just say ( Read more... )

So I'm sewing the strap onto my half-constructed new gym bag (purple, with silver skeletons! I will be the gothest dude on the ellipticals) and right when I get to the middle of the strap and stop to turn it I hear this sickening *sssschunk* and then it stops working. Wtf ( Read more... )

So yesterday I had to drive out to Lodi to meet up with some dudes for drinkery-business. I can tell you I was not looking forward to this for three reasons ( Read more... )

My ears are ringing a little still, and for the most part I hungry-ghosted it across Montreal, but I'm glad I went. Bought an obscene number of shirts, stood in a trance and let the beats fill me up, and generally stuck to myself, though I did meet up with several acquaintances. It was awesome to be social again, even a little, and to see so many ( Read more... )

What do you mean I can't use any of the roughly eleventybillion frequent flier miles to go to Montreal? You mean I have to use real money this time? Mrehhhhhhh. Can I at least get one of those hotel+flight deals then please, you draconian bastards? Kthx. Oy.

Is anyone else going to Kinetik this year?

Ugh, suddenly wracked by the overwhelming urge to take one of my lengthy 2am bike rides around sav'h. Like, overcome-wanna-weep wracked, and it came on as fast as a snap. There's a part of me that gets a mini-sigh (the part that hasn't fully readjusted to semi-nomad life again) whenever I see moss-drenched oaks, but this is really, really ( Read more... )

For a long time I resisted going to the Laura Mercier counter - Oh, I'd get eyebrow powder there or whatnot, maybe sample the delightfully gourmand perfumes... but I always resisted the tinted moisturizers that so many people are on about. I thought, bah, I am too pale and freckly to make that even worth the effort of application, it will just ( Read more... )

Today I am sitting half-sidesaddle on a carpenter's horse in class, my head forward and my hair tossed partways over my face, trying not to think about getting splinters, watching the clock for the end of two minute sketches when I overhear the following ( Read more... )