Conversations with my family ( Read more... )

Sat in standstill traffic for about an hour on the way home from work today, and my brain is kind of screaming and running around maniacally, so I'm sitting here trying to de-stress and think calm thoughts that don't involve ripping my hair out ( Read more... )

Today Baby Brother John graduated from high school. I feel old ( Read more... )

But my voting isn't the point of this post. Well, the little "I Voted" sticker I got might be ( Read more... )

So, you know you have a good school-related story when it begins, "First we went into lockdown ( Read more... )

I spent most of this afternoon vaguely nauseous and incredibly dizzy - there's some yucky thing going around at work which I fear I have caught - and since I didn't want to go to sleep, since if I nap I won't sleep tonight, I lay down and read the last two thirds of American Gods in a single sitting. Well, I stopped at about 7, without having read ( Read more... )

So, Dad's traveling during the weeks now, so I'm not getting my Doctor Who fix, and I need someone to sit around and watch TV with, so mom and I have started watching Life on Mars, which she seems to like well enough. Baby Brother John watched it with us tonight, and seemed to like it too (his BZUH? reaction to Sam's coma visions was pretty funny ( Read more... )

So yeah, I watched the first two episodes of Ashes to Ashes tonight. I have a lot of thoughts, which I will type up sometime when I don't really want to go to bed. For now, I will sum up by saying OMG we didn't need any more terrifying clowns. I mean, WTF writing team? Do you all have a clown phobia? Because dear god. I actually recoiled from ( Read more... )

So, some thoughts from the back room of the library ( Read more... )

Life continues to consist mainly of boring work, with the occasional amusement of watching little kids do funny things. Since this could be a lot worse, I will not complain. I am, in fact, v. grateful for my job. But yeah, I didn't do much worth writing about today ( Read more... )