I found this quote from an old entry of mine, but I can't remember what it's from and it's driving me nuts. It's from a book, I think. Help.

"It was noon as noon could be when she stood at her window, staring across the shadowless city, low and blanched and jumbled as a boneyard, as a retirement picnic for used-up schoolroom chalk."

me: Where're Mom and Eric?
my sister: They went to drop the car off at the mechanics and get married.

P.S. She's serious, I think they're getting the... license for their registration or some technical love thang like that.

Also, I just had the best-temperatured coffee of all time. And now I'm going back to sleep.

i'm back from armenia! i'm hungry and the sun's coming up. flying around for 20+ hours really screws with your sense of time, place, and duty to your body. i'm going to go eat some... breakfast? probably cake. and maybe go to sleep. in case you're wondering, the trip was basically awesome. details later maybe.

today at work i touched the Sexy Soup, thinking it was calamata olives. it was, in fact, gallons of restaurant sludge. i am everybody's hero.

sexy, sexy ITINERARY!

Los Angeles to Yerevan, Transfer in Moscow. Departing August 3.
Yerevan to Seattle. Returning August 20.

ay-ay-ay. Now I just need to find a ticket to LA and I'm set.

Leave a comment if you want a postcard, souvenir, goat intestine, whatever. I will accomodate y'all the best I can.

edit: email me your addresses -

i guess i haven't written a real entry in a while, at least not without making it private 2.5 hours later, so here's a shot. things have been a-notbad lately. i get up for work, walk to pcc, pass the dead racoon and the deader racoon pelt a block later. it doesn't stink anymore, it's sort of sundried. listen to whatever cd i have around, usually ( Read more... )

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Fake etymology. Backronyms. Okay. (Quote: "There was a fad in the 1830s and 1840s involving the intentional misspelling of common phrases, and referring to them by the resulting initials.")

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