Haven't posted in awhile! Not much going on, got blocked on everything I'm trying to write, got unblocked a bit on the RoboSam story today, yay. Mom was visiting this weekend for the cherry blossoms and it was freaking cold and miserable until Sunday, when it got nice, and we joined the rest of the eastern seaboard along the tidal basin, but it's ( Read more... )

Anyone have any experience with TMJ problems? After some pretty intense pain this weekend I have been to both the dentist and the ear doctor this week, and the ear doctor has sent me back to the dentist because apparently she should have known it was the TMJ ( Read more... )

on everything i need to get done. but here, a bit of surreality I ran into yesterday in Baltimore.

( Naturally, it involved Santa Claus. What's the plural of Santa? )

1. Uh, I have managed to call and make one doctor's appointment. One out of the ... three four... I need to make. I really hate making doctor's appointments. I will put that shit off until I'm coughing up blood. There's an appointment I had to cancel back in November that I haven't rescheduled. I am fucking neurotic about doctor's appointments, ( Read more... )

--Survived thanksgiving with sanity (mostly) intact. The turkey turned out quite nice. Mom's chocolate pie was the best thing about the weekend.

( reaction to The Road, not really any spoilers )

~I now have a clean kitchen and bathroom and my bedroom is mostly clean, though I have unsolvable stacks of books and things with nowhere to put them. But you can see the floor! This is an improvement. I don't have much floor, my bedroom is tiny, but that just means the floorspace gets taken up with things very quickly ( Read more... )

a. I have been in a slump the last couple of weeks. Possibly due to it getting dark so early, mostly due to lots of other things.

b. I have a day off today, in the middle of the week, because it is Veteran's day. Some around these parts tend to take this as a "floating holiday" so they can have the day after Thanksgiving off, but we don't get that ( Read more... )

really good, concise outline of privilege and what it means.

And another one, about privilege and how it can mean not having to worry about what other people think of you.

This makes it easier to ignore the social and economic networks around us; and it makes it easier for the privileged to imagine their accomplishments are the result of their own ( Read more... )

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FORMATTING, WTF? APOLOGIES, TRYING TO FIX LJ-CUT

AHEM. APPARENTLY LJ-CUT DOES NOT LIKE BLOCK QUOTE.

Unless You Want To Be An Example Of What Not To Do

Responding to the Race Fail 09: how not to do it. (gerriwritinglog via metafandom)

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has rather sucked this week. like, sucked balls. I could write a big long entry explaining why, but I don't really want to. mostly I want to go on a long trip to Tahiti.

anyone up for Tahiti?

on the non-ball suckage front, more Yuletide:

Cinderella, Made of Steel - Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles. At first the tone and language threw me, ( Read more... )