While I figure out my answer to outsidetheparty's question about the other me's, I'd very much like some other top five lists. (Wow. Me. Responding to an LJ meme. It must be a very strange week.)

I like haute cuisine. I also like Taco Bell ( Read more... )

Today I am being good to myself.

Rather than driving myself to the airport, feeling sad and lonely, I talked kassrachel into driving me there... and picking me up eight days from now. She's really nice to me ( Read more... )

The ultra-modern terminal F at Charles De Gaulle has three WiFi networks. Despite memberships with five different wireless providers between us, neither J. nor I can get online. We're not, technically speaking supposed to be here. Our flight from Budapest was delayed, and the connection between flights was tight, so we're now in CDG for an ( Read more... )

I posted this to Bacontarian.comBoingboing linked to it and now Bacontarian is down ( Read more... )

It's no wonder why same sex marriage has been widely accepted in my beloved home state: even our swans are gay.

I did the math. (I was waiting at a travel agency and there just wasn't that much else to do.) While it feels like I've been on the road continuously from February through July, it's not nearly that bad. It turns out to be only 95 of 181 days, or 52.5% of the time... :-) With the exception of April, when I was home almost the entire month, I've ( Read more... )

What seems like a lifetime ago - but in reality, just 15 years - when I was seriously depressed, I made a rule for myself - I was allowed bad days and bad weeks, but never bad months. I decided it was okay to write off the whole week if the first three days had been terrible, but that I wasn't allowed to write off months ten days into them. Things ( Read more... )

Today is the perfect day for a drive down the Atlantic coast and back up the Indian coast to Cape of Good Hope, stopping on the way to visit little villages and get a sense for the Western Cape area outside of the city of Cape Town ( Read more... )

South Africa's weird ( Read more... )