"Black Lung," "Anthracite," "Digitial-to-Analog Converter," "Nicea," "Red Shift," "Thomas Grey." And that's just the last round. I don't know why or how I know them, or where they came from, but they just pop out of my mouth. dammit, I must be on Jeopardy!!

At one point, I answered 3 in a row that no one even guessed at.

do I go for a full-on pixie, or a more modest a-line bob or eton crop?

oh, MAN, I NEED to get on Jeopardy!!

a selection of the paintings I did for jme's birthday are up on devart.

Here's a teaser:


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holy crap!!! I just remembered that HEX is on tonight!!! in a few hours!!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

in other news, I need a haircut. Badly. I know this because I've started hacking off all the hairs that come loose from my perpetual ponytail as close to the bare vulnerable skin on the nape of my neck as possible.

Walking in a pencil skirt is an art. I'm not talking about those malnourished little tubes that of late have been travelling under that name. Real pencil skirts, of the sort produced when women were shaped like women and had names like Sophia Loren, Cyd Charisse, and Jean Simmons, and wore gloves made of polka-dotted lace. A real pencil skirt ( Read more... )

sometimes I write sentences so pretty, I just have to brag. This is one of them:

By literally readying himself to seduce language itself as he approaches the act of writing, Stephen further conflates purity and prurience, extricating the emotional from the apprehensible.

I had this crazy realization this morning that I'm approximately two dozen showers away from my own bathroom. My OWN BATHROOM!!! Everything in it will be MINE! A WHOLE bathroom, just FOR ME!!

Seriously, everytime I pee at home, I'm like, wow, I have one of these and it's just mine as of April 15, or whenever I decide to move me in.

FYI, Jeanne, Aaron, and I are trying to insert the word "stale" into the vernacular. We decided this last Thursday. First, Aaron decided he would singlehandedly ressurrect "fresh" (for "cool") but I suggested "stale" as its antonym, and better. And, I think it's new. For lame, or passé, or instead of saying "that's so four years ago." Just "ew. ( Read more... )

( Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecake with Chocolate Sauce and Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries and Chocolate-Crumb-Coffee Base )