I keep holding off on updating, hoping that something awesome will happen so I'm not just whining and spewing invectives in my little corner of the internet. Alas, nothing so amazing has happened yet.
Last week it looked like we were going to FINALLY find a housemate, but nothing happened. I'm going insane over this. We even let one really awesome ( Read more... )

Confession: I cannot stand the Giant Schnauzer my cousin gave Dad. Samba is sweet and friendly, but she's also wild, and loud, and the size of a small pony, and tracks mud everywhere, and generally too much like a little human kid for my likes. The time I'd put in at the Humane Society in high school had burned me out on puppies anyway (all these ( Read more... )

Holy Moses, I just had another super social weekend. Sunday I cleaned the house for my parents and went to a birthday/champagne and party favor party, followed immediately by a Naked Lady Party thrown by my housemates. The first event was for my friend and coworker Sarah (sometimes referred to as Switchboard Sarah, to distinguish her from ( Read more... )

To all the up-tight bastards who come into my museum, asking us why do we have an exhibit on dinosaurs? Why do we promote lies? Where is the proof of evolution? I have for you exhibit a. So stop fusing your science with your Christianity, those are two valid spheres of though that belong as separate spheres. And I don't care what you say, it's ( Read more... )

As a child, I was near religious in my watching of the I Love Lucy show. I mean, what better analogy for my family? Gorgeous farm-girl mother figure, Cuban musician husband, kooky family friends, it was my life. I can't say my Mom was ever like Lucille Ball, but my Dad quite adequately made up for both her and Desi Arnaz's roles. Now, he has gone ( Read more... )