So I am lame about forgetting my camera when I go to photogenic places -- hence no pictures from the harrowing field trip to the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. I also forgot my camera last weekend when my college friend who lives two hours away expressed an urge to visit the "Open Barn" event at a llama farm outside her town ( Read more... )

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Since it seems like the only legitimate thing to do with my life at this point is to become a crazy cat lady, I have acquired two crazy cats. One of my actually decent students (she’s thirty and therefore places a bit more value on her education than the kids who never particularly liked school in the first pace but just don’t know what else to do ( Read more... )

My house apparently turned into Amityville while I was gone tonight. Not, you know, portal to Hell in the basement (maybe, though, since I never go down there), but a sudden abundance of flies. I hardly ever get flies -- tons of spiders and gnats and fireflies and those beetles that aren't really ladybugs, but rarely flies -- but when I got home ( Read more... )

... including one of his bandmates.

Arashi + food may be the ultimate OTP, but Arashi + animals runs a close second. In honor of flange5 ’s birthday, I dug into the archive of grainy D no Arashi footage for one of the few episodes of that program that takes all five of the guys outside the studio together. D no Arashi #38: Arashi goes to the zoo!


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I have joked about this, citing the spider webs that appear overnight in the corners of my living room and the swaths that festoon the basement I so rarely enter -- it's got a dirt floor, a low ceiling, and floods whenever it rains for several days straight, so I don't keep anything down there anyway. So why pay the cellar any attention? I only ( Read more... )

In honor of the New Year, I’ve resolved to be less stupid whenever possible. One easy less-stupid thing I could accomplish with minimal trouble was changing my stupid username. I think the new one suits my personality a little better, and presumably the handful of people I talk to online here can deal with the change ( Read more... )