I think because I always feel sort of adrift during the summer, rudderless and lost. I also don't like the heat at all, which is why I'm over the moon about the fact that June is next week and I actually have my HEAT on in my apartment today. This makes me very, very happy ( Read more... )

Some of you will have encountered this on Facebook, but I wanted to put this out in the LJ-verse to see what my comrades here have stored in their own treasure boxes of skills.So, although I really should be finishing my projects, I've had this note in mind for a week or so and I've determined that I should write it so I can throw that Post-It note ( Read more... )

Very quickly, because I should be either writing or reading, hello! Updates all around ( Read more... )

I just saw the new "Alice in Wonderland" last weekend and was suitably impressed. Also, I have such an interesting love/hate relationship with the works of Lewis Carroll: love that he is a friggin' genius and so incredibly imaginative, hate that half the time I feel there aren't enough hallucinatory substances in all the world for me to get what ( Read more... )

Grad schools: I'VE BEEN ACCEPTED TO TWO DIFFERENT GRAD SCHOOLS!!! I am very excited about this, as you can see. I haven't gotten any news on funding yet, which makes me nervous because I'm a pessimist and money is tight (isn't it for everyone?), but I'm still waiting. I have three applications still to hear from and was considering sending out ( Read more... )

Briefly dropping in to say hello, LiveJournal, in a rare moment of internet access.  I hope all of you are doing well.  I'm doing slighly less well, as I spent the beginnings of this weekend with family at my grandmother's funeral.  It wasn't as sad as it could have been, as she's been ready to go for years and thank God she's in a place where she' ( Read more... )

Life just seems to be determined to crush me of late. I had a concert this morning at a church downtown (it went half-well; some of the singers butchered a couple of the songs and it took a lot, lot, lot of self-restraint and prayer and encouraging looks from a friend of mine in the audience for me not to turn around and thwap them with my music) ( Read more... )

A very belated merry Christmas to my friends here in the LJ community, and an early happy new year! I hope your holidays have been treating you well, allowing you a bit of rest from the insanity of daily life. I know it's been an absolute blessing to me to have a little bit of time to withdraw from things and just read and watch movies ( Read more... )

Hello cyberspace ( Read more... )

And now it's icing on top, but oh well. We got nearly four inches of snow last night! Snow makes everything better, I believe ( Read more... )