- I'm fairly drunk right now, which seems like a totally appropriate condition in which to update my LJ after months. Dudes, it will be my 12th LJversary in about a week. I'm learning to accept fandom's move to Tumblr, but we've been here a long-ass time ( Read more... )

- I've been sick for a week. I finally got over that point in my flu where I was crawling up the stairs because I couldn't make it on my feet. This is an achievement ( Read more... )

Back home. Internets, I missed you. Seriously, I had to stand out under a walnut tree in the middle of a pasture to check my email for the past week ( Read more... )

- Today I have to go to International Day at my nieces' school. They have to bring food, so I made sweet potato bread and their great-grandmother made boudin blanc, because we're Southern. "Southern" is not international enough for International Day, however, so the girls wrote their heritage papers on Quebec and Ghana ( Read more... )

- This week, while I had the cold from hell, I had three days attending oral surgery with Sis-in-Law, and one day attending surgery with my dad. And then nursing them both. (They're both perfectly fine now.) And all next week I have my nieces because Rod has work and Sis-in-Law has midterms. By this point, I feel like I could manage two spouses ( Read more... )

- Glee, I can't even with you. What the hell was that hot grave-robbing mess?
( relevant year-old tweet is relevant )

I've made friends with my nephew's latest girlfriend, who is adorable, and I also saw my newest great-nephew for the first time. His name is Ebenezer. I am not kidding ( Read more... )

- Sis-in-Law and I had a date night and saw Titanic 3D last week. It was fabulous. I never got the Leo thing when I was actually in his target demographic, because I thought he was a really good actor who looked like a weasel, but this time I was like, "oh, the hype 15 years ago actually makes sense now. You're charming." So that was fun ( Read more... )

( longest, most random post ever. seriously, check out the tags )

- I'm becoming obsessed with Alicia Keys' "Un-thinkable." And I'm hyperemotional right now (I swear, if my period doesn't come like tomorrow, I'm calling my psych, because this shit is baffling), so watching the video is making me weep. The media scholar part of my brain shares Racialicious' issues with its treatment of history and the portrayal ( Read more... )