THAT'S RIGHT I DISSED THE EAMES LOUNGER ( Read more... )

over thanksgiving weekend chris and i saw some nature, just by walking around the same haunts as always. on saturday we saw a little brown bat hanging off a holly tree right at eye level. we took lots of phone cam pictures but of course, they were on phone cams so they're not that great. you may see them at chris's flickr which is here, along ( Read more... )

I am so GASSY today! Sorry coworkers.

Chris is still sick, with what the nurse practitioner claims cannot be the flu because it is too early, but if it walks like the flu and quacks like the flu and you, the medical professional, are too lazy to actually test whether or not it is the flu, then maybe it could actually be the flu? No word on why I am so far immune to the flu-like non- ( Read more... )

chris is sick. really sick. i gather from speaking with him about it that this happens about once a decade. i, on the other hand, have spent some large nontrivial amount of time in my life really sick, so in preparation for probably 4 hours from now when i come down with what he came down with yesterday, i'm making a big pot of chicken soup ( Read more... )

I'M PUBLISHED.

Someone asked me today, as sort of a rhetorical question and sort of as a metaphor, if stress could be considered exercise for the stress-responsive systems in the body, which at first glance makes sense as repeated stress experiences really pump up the response to subsequent experiences. Its all very interesting as a metaphor, but I dunno. Does ( Read more... )

allow me to bring it to your attention that i have a FUCKING CUTE OTTER USERPIC NOW.

Let's see, this weekend Chris and I went to Baltimore. I've been before, and averaging my first extremely negative impression, my second "this is cute" impression, and my third "but awfully hilly" impression, it sits firmly in the dull positives. I would rather end up in Baltimore for a few years than Ohio...or hell, most of the country. But it ( Read more... )

NPR is playing a totally deadpan "Talk of the Nation" as though World War Z was true. at least, that's what it sounds like to me. some man is now sadly recounting how two of his family members became zombies, and he killed one and locked the other in the attic ( Read more... )