"It's sooooooo hot," Lula whined, as if she had never lived through a summer. Ever. In her entire life ( Read more... )

bella, ever and always munchy, headed for the kitchen only to find her mother entertaining the company of miz penelope de la croix (penny cross) in the ochre leisure room. miz de la croix, in bella's opinion was a bag of a nouvelle riche socialite who needed the good graces of people like bella's mother to have a peg leg to stand on in society. not ( Read more... )

a tag from dorian doll ( Read more... )

“Mmmm, listen. Pibbs! Listen. Are you listening?” Bella says with a mouth full of lemon tart, which is her favorite sort of tart ( Read more... )

so, there's this awful fire going on right now in malibu, poor things, that's spread to surrounding areas. of course,this isn't so odd because it's october and this is around the time that our darling santa anas visit us sillies down here in southern california. and santa anas love to stir up fire. you know, hot dry winds make for red hot fires ( Read more... )

sir raven wasn't so bad of a creature, really. although one might think that he would be perpetually haughty and dismissive--which would be rather correct--he could be rather pleasant at times. perfectly cordial. that is, at least to those not of the avian persuasion. he made quite sure to distance himself from such associations (which was rather ( Read more... )

oh, dolling
drab though you may be
it's time, dolling
he said
to be like me
he said
like a lady

what have i been doing lately ( Read more... )

i'm obviously at my best when i'm taking notes in one class (hist 171) for a different class (ling 181) while half asleep. i especially think that god agrees with me ( Read more... )

sooo the russian asked me to leave the cello.
and i stubbornly said that i would not leave the cello.
sooo my mum said to you know maybe leave the cello.
and i cried.

it's an utterly irrational reaction.
but, seriously, it's like cps taking away my neglected (but with a classy new outfit!) child.

konets.