I am done done done with law school applications! It is out of my hands now. And I have my life back. :-D ( Read more... )

My mixer caught on fire yesterday ( Read more... )

OK. I do not understand. Why people are freaking out about the Golden Compass movie. The His Dark Materials trilogy were my favorite books growing up. They are not promoting atheism. They are not going to turn your children into devil-worshipers. At worst, they are anti-Catholic and pro- a transcendentalist kind of hippy religion. At worst ( Read more... )

Went to Vegas with my grandparents and extended family last weekend. For my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary. They don't even make cards for that! I guess most people don't even live that long. However, my family is from the country, and we marry young out there. My grandpa will be 80 next spring. My grandma is 2 years younger. Yep. ( Read more... )

So the past 4 or 5 months have been pretty crappy. I was in a bit of a funk, I'll admit. Anti-social, not returning people's calls, etc. etc. But we're past that now. So, time to update ( Read more... )

It's a snowy day and I'm at work and this place is deserted, so I thought I'd take some time to update ( Read more... )

Christmas was lovely, as usual. Kind of a bummer with all the rain, and with Kyle being on the other side of the country, but it was great seeing all of my family. And almost miraculous that my grandparents - my dad's parents, anyways - made it to Christmas. It really made me appreciate it that much more ( Read more... )

Oh man, do I SUCK at updating or what? Well, I found an awesome poem that I really want to post... but before that (wait for it, kids, it's good. trust me.) a quick run-down. Went to Philadelphia for the COPA trial, saw/met/stayed in the same hotel with lots of interesting people, including the young and attractive-in-a-nerdy-way founder of ( Read more... )

I obviously never update this thing. Let's do a quick run-down ( Read more... )

So today at work I got to call The Cherokee Nation and get their banking info (routing number, etc.) so we could send them half a billion dollars.

This made me happy.

The Cherokee Nation, it turns out, has a Swiss bank account.

This made me even happier, for some reason. :-D