Toast has been sick. She started seeming a bit lethargic last Thursday, and looked like something hurt—she didn't seem to want to move around much. So Jack Spade called up the vet to make an appointment for her, but because it was coming up on a holiday weekend, nothing was available until Tuesday. However, by Saturday she had stopped eating and ( Read more... )

Yeah, well, with the one notable exception, 2006 pretty much completely sucked. Here's hoping 2007 is better.

Christmas has come and gone, in its usual grinding way. There were some good bits here and there. I felt like the stuff I gave people was last-minute and uninspired this year, which was kind of depressing, but some of it seemed to go over reasonably well. I ended up with a bunch of stripey socks and new things to read and (hee hee!) the goggles ( Read more... )

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For all you beautiful people out there who are in love with one another, I'm sure today will be strewn with rose petals, drizzled in chocolate, and drenched with champagne. For the rest of us, there's always Emperor Norton's Birthday.

I'm quietly amusing myself by stringing my internal organs up with barbed wire.

( No, really )

I haven't finished as much of my homework as I should, but I've done some of it, and so as a break I decided to mess with the e-card pages a bit.

Happy Valentine's Day
Unhappy Valentine's Day
Fractal Valentine's DayNone of the fractals are new, I just reshuffled things so the seasonally-appropriate ones are available. On the other two pages, ( Read more... )

Two years in a row, I did one of those New Year memes, where you fill in a couple of dozen questions about what you did during the year, which new people you met, whether anyone was born or died, and so on. Two years in a row, half my answers turned out to be painfully, horribly wrong before the new year had even gotten as far as February ( Read more... )

There's a kind of lawn decoration made of the kind of plastic normally used for beach balls. It's an inflatable snowman or Santa, surrounded by a lumpy sphere which is transparent in front, with an opaque back, which conceals a mechanism for blowing small white styrofoamy bits around the inside of the contraption. I think there must be a light ( Read more... )

A few things accomplished. Have made lemon curd and gingerbread dough. Have wrapped small, feeble collection of presents in small, feeble collection of paste-paper ( Read more... )

This is the way the semester ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.
It still hasn't really sunk in yet, but I seem to have come out the other end of the worst semester of my life. I sincerely hope I never have to go through anything like that again. There have been no celebrations. There will be no celebrations. Even after two nights of twice as ( Read more... )