Today on Hyperbole and a Half, she posted about her experiences with nightmares as a kid. Of course, it’s brilliantly written & illustrated, and strikes a chord with most people who can remember going through something similar when they were little. My experience was…different. I’ll preface it by saying that my dad is a chemist, by trade and by ( Read more... )

I got new pretties! I had the wardrobe blahs somethin’ fierce, and I found a site called eShakti that does has well-priced clothes, plus you can get custom sized clothes for only an additional $7! While a lot of their shirts & other stuff aren’t especially my style, they have some really cute dresses, some very nice basics. And I would like to wear ( Read more... )

For years after graduation from high school, my stress dream of choice was the classic “It’s the end of the year and I realize I have to take a final for a class I’d never shown up for/didn’t know I had” kind of dreams. I never had these when I was in high school, only after. Eventually, they slowly turned into dreams where I was called back to ( Read more... )

Well, things aren’t really calming down. This weekend is PAX, which I’m excited for. Lately I haven’t been too excited about pencil & paper RPGs. I think I’ve just exceeded my gaming-and-talking-about-gaming quota for the season. Two cons, plus weekly gaming, and visitors who game…I love it, I love it all, but I don’t have quite the same lust for ( Read more... )

There’s this house that we looked at renting, before we would up in our current place. It’s pretty close to where we are, and it’s actually a duplex, with unit in the finished basement that’s about the same size as the main unit. We applied, but we didn’t get it. It had its flaws, flaws that would have been pretty problematic if you were a renter, ( Read more... )