So last night I was pumping air into my bike tires before going to the store (recommended pressure: 45-60 PSI; actual pressure: 17-20 PSI), and when I came back inside, there was a voicemail on my phone from sophonisba.

"Uh, I'm at the airport," it said. "I'm on my way to California to stay with clo_dawg [her roommate]. I think her parents still live in Palo Alto ( Read more... )

So today I went to the second day of the monthly Palo Alto Public Library sale. I brought back quite a haul, and I'd like you to realize that I had to carry it about a mile and a half because it turned out that the #88 bus does not run on Sundays, as I discovered after waiting forlornly for an hour (I finally called my sister to check the schedule ( Read more... )

Tagged by seeksadventure:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag three people.

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Excellent mail today. I got a $5 check from Pinecone Research, an actual market research group that I got into through a link on freestuff; they seem legit, so hopefully I will be seeing more $5 checks as the months go by.

I also got a huge pack of mix CDs from mogigraphia; most of them are collections of sea chanties and related music, but I am currently listening ( Read more... )

Thesis edits continue--I did all the little rewrites suggested by my second committee member yesterday and today, but she also had an ASSLOAD of citations she wanted me to add, so I searched high and low for them yesterday and then emailed her about the ones that continued to elude me. No response yet; I'm starting to worry she might be out of ( Read more... )

1) Total number of books owned:God only knows. I had to buy another bookcase a few months ago because I was TOTALLY out of room. So I have three fairly large bookcases, plus several built-in shelves in my bedroom, full of books, plus numerous boxes of them back at my parents' house. Seriously, does anyone actually know exactly how many books ( Read more... )

I meant to make a phone post from last night's karaoke, but then I got drunk and forgot. Oops ( Read more... )

Got up "early" to attend the farmers' market and had a lovely time. I needed honey for travspence's Chicken Lemon Butt recipe (another preparation for cooking a whole damn chicken in the crockpot)--I just hope I can cram the lemon I got at the grocery store the other night with narcissuskisses into the chicken's butt cavity; the entire lemon selection was pretty hefty ( Read more... )

Yesterday I decoupaged one side of my bookcase. I think I may have started a bit too fast with the patchwork layer of paper scraps, and some bits do not lie entirely flat on top of that, but overall I think it looks okay. Everything's stuck on there, anyway ( Read more... )

Getting the bag of innards out of a chicken that is still slightly frozen in the middle? Not fun ( Read more... )