Right now it is snowing in that ethereal, graceful way that looks softer than a whisper. It’s the rip-torn, tissue-paper snow, so thin and feather-fluffy that you think you could blow it all away ( Read more... )

SARK.Stay loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Invite someone dangerous to tea. Make little signs that say 'yes!' and post them all over your house. Make friends with freedom and uncertainty. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Refuse to 'be ( Read more... )

April, in all its spring glory, is National Poetry Month. I don't think I've ever posted for this, though I've read poems across my friends page year after year ( Read more... )

For the second time in as many weeks, I'm doing the Friday Five. This is like, a miracle or something. Or maybe they only just got interesting. XD

1.) What are your favorite smells/scents?Vanilla. Musk. Apple Pie. Lavender. Great Indian food. Great Italian food. Great food. A bonfire in Tim's backyard. The chemicals we put on our Christmas tree. ( Read more... )

I've never really done this, but here there be a ( WTF OMG PUP ROUNDUP. )

....so, Wes has challenged me to write a short story by this weekend. He thinks I should write more narratives, more novels, and so he's issued this challenge to me. We've loosely defined "short" as 5-6 pages (for now), and he gave me the prompt of "a girl loses her teddy bear at an event."

I'm stuck.

It's six pages and I'm stuck. I told him ( Read more... )

Because Melly is awesome, she put up a post with sexy pictures of Marg Helgenberger (aka: Catherine Willows from CSI).

Me being me, I responded with comment picspam of Gary Dourdan (aka: Warrick Brown from CSI).

And then, in an intellectual, eloquent discussion of sexy people on CSI, captaintinuviel decided to bring up how sexy Captain Jim Brass is. With photos ( Read more... )

I went to Romania. I survived Alumni Weekend at Tufts. I turned 23. I moved to Medford. I worked at one job, all year. I did a reading at church, for Christmas Eve, in front of a packed sanctuary of over 500 of my closest friends and family. I attended Opening Day at Fenway Park.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make ( Read more... )

My friends list has once again exploded with the glee of NaNoWriMo, and for the first time, I actually understand what's going on. For those who don't have a direct USB connection to the internet, November is NaNoWriMo-- National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is set to authors to write 50,000 words in One Month ( Read more... )

I am sitting on my porch next to a big ass bowl of candy (Three Musketeers, York Peppermint Patties, and Hershey's with Almonds and Toffee, if you must know). I have my little horns tucked on my head, a red turtleneck, and my red horny hoodie; Suzie is dressed in all black, a sparkly black scarf, and kittie cat ears and tail. Kids have come and ( Read more... )