It's been quite a while again, and I don't mean for that to happen - maybe it'll stop when I finally move next month (news bomb ( Read more... )

Spoke to my parents today, and found out that the meeting with the attorney was less productive than I might have hoped, but it DID reinforce cassandra_7's warning that it takes a looooong time. Apparently, the guy said to expect 8-10 months for a fiancé(e) visa to be approved, and a year or more for a spousal sponsorship. To which I say Whaaaaaaat your own ( Read more... )

Ugh making ZERO progress on creative projects is pretty disheartening, I'm finding (again). I can't stay mad at Russia for having lost all their pre-Christian worldbuilding myths, because the stuff they've put together since then is so awesome (I will never not love Prince Ivan, even if he's kind of a jackass sometimes), but it doesn't help me make ( Read more... )

So I spent most of today reading my Master's dissertation to figure out which part is best for a writing sample, given the information I got during my phonecall to a PhD department contact two Fridays ago. It didn't make for a very exciting day (especially combined with feeling sort of vaguely crappy all day: sore throat, light congestion, mild ( Read more... )

God damn it. IF ONLY I HAD KNOWWWWNNNNN ~!!!! I would completely have paid outrageous amounts of money to go see Gackt in London EXCEPT I WILL BE AT HOME HAVING AN AWESOME TIME ARGH Gackt you are a fantastic and lolarious human being and I will forever consider this missed opportunity to be one of the great tragedies of my life ( Read more... )

It has just occurred to me that not all of the things Thurl Ravenscroft accuses the Grinch of in "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch" are so terrible. For example, I firmly believe that I, too, have garlic in my soul - otherwise, how does one explain my tendency to triple or quadruple the amount of garlic in any given recipe? I mean, I'm not sure I'd ( Read more... )

On some level I feel like I should be playing FF13 - my preordered copy came Thursday (I think? maybe Wednesday) and I've only played about 3 hours of it. I haven't got the foggiest idea what sort of "plot" is happening - well, it's become slightly cleared recently since things have happened in the game, but the context for everything is completely ( Read more... )

Double Stuf Oreos are saving my life right now. We ordered takeout for dinner today and my "korma" was the saltiest most horrible thing I've ever tasted. I fought to get through it, but I couldn't and in the end only ate the chicken and left the rest. NOT good. It took me 2½ pints of water to get even that far. So Oreos it is ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of interesting posting going around recently - I find the whole discussion fascinating, and I hope people keep replying to those posts, but I'm not going to get into it - there or here - mostly because I will be repeating what some others have said and mostly I don't want to get invested in it beyond "I agree with this person ( Read more... )

Thought about going to the gym today, but was too sore, so I will definitely go tomorrow (though I wasted a perfectly lovely day today, which was the first since I've been back /: Oh well), and then again Monday or Tuesday depending on what kind of recovery time I decide I need before going to see the trainer on Thursday...so there's that ( Read more... )