I am scrupulously *not* playing the RNC drinking game right now (where one drinks every time they say something blatantly self-contradictory like "John McCain is pro-life and thinks that America is a country where we should be able to decide our own futures" -- this is pretty much an exact quote). I am, however, seething. And amused that the ( Read more... )

Home safe.

Pants bankrupt.

Furniture re-arranged and in some cases replaced with better.

TiVo behaving badly. (This being a note for cadhla, who will understand when I tell her that it did the same thing this week as it did last week in regards to SYTYCD, but did get the new Eureka ( Read more... )

I got an email from the Law School people yesterday. It said "oh, we have your scores, but you can't have them, your file is under review, please call our customer service reps ( Read more... )

I just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions on what to do with my lunchbox. I'm still working on what exactly fits and doesn't fit, and travels well in that sort of container rather than a more traditional one, but I'm certainly eating *much* better ( Read more... )

Um...

I seem to be going to Boskone, courtesy of gdmusumeci, who seems to think that putting me on a plane the day after our anniversary to go see my friends is a lovely, sane idea. Also courtesy of cadhla, who will trade sanity for a +1 con membership and some share of a hotel room ( Read more... )

So after all these years of having variants on "my hair is mostly all one length, generally shoulder-blade or below," I went out and got a real, grownup haircut.

( This thread is useless without pics. )

Two random things:

1. On a subway platform in NYC somewhere, there's a guy playing horn to movie soundtracks. I gave him a dollar for playing the "Indiana Jones" themesong and dragging a smile out of both me and gdmusumeci (both of whom were pretty low on spoons at that point). Also, for not playing Christmas music, which would be seasonally appropriate ( Read more... )

I am alive ( Read more... )

Went to law school forum. Have decided that applications process is designed entirely to see how good your ability to accumulate trivia is (speaking of, adbfoldem, I need some stuff from you, but I promise I won't let them ask you for money ( Read more... )

Well... On Thursday-last, I reinstalled my computer, using gdmusumeci's developer copy of OSX 10.5 (Leopard). Unfortunately, the downsides of using a beta OS became immediately obvious ( Read more... )