Important note before we get to me: My friend Aaron Allston just underwent quadruple bypass surgery. His family has set up a blood donation sponsorship. If you are in the Dallas area (or possibly anywhere in Texas? I'm not totally sure how this system works), please check out the information here and donate blood if you can. Forward this to any ( Read more... )

Starting with the icon question: so I've been seeing icons like this around:

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1) inkstain is visiting me! Right now she is at SPROG, but she will be back tomorrow and here until Monday. Also coming to visit me, my mom! Woo! She'll be here on Saturday. Plus Hannah brought me cheese! Yay cheese! (Icon use: successfully justified ( Read more... )

OK, a million things have happened and I only have time for bullet points ( Read more... )

I've been a failure at updating recently. I went to see Juno in Minneapolis and it was AWESOME and I am now addicted to the soundtrack. I have seriously not listened to anything else. It is OH SO GOOD. Plus, Juno is coming here next week and I'm dragging my parents and inkstain and her family and anyone else who wants to come (I live in the same place as ( Read more... )

I finished all my papers! They weren't awesome, but whatever. I can rewrite the history one, at least. I had a great time hanging out with my mom, which was really nice ( Read more... )

Things I did, in reverse chronological order ( Read more... )

My first class was intro to linguistics, which was awesome. My professor was about ten minutes late, which was fine, because he was so cool when he came. He had thought the class was at 11 and had been "practicing [his] lines," which I think it pretty much adorable. We talked about what we thought the objective of Linguistics should be, and then ( Read more... )

I had my last day of work yesterday. That was nice. My work friend George (who had better be reading this. Do you hear me, George? Friend me! *wave*) brought me a milkshake and Amanda/the store bought me some pastries. I also picked out a planner and some Pratchett books so as to use my 30% discount some more. Oh discount, I will miss you so. OH, ( Read more... )

Hi guys! I'm home from camping. It was awesome. We had perfect weather the whole time, excepting one morning where it thunder stormed, but that was pretty cool anyway. I am lightly sunburned in all my non-bathing suit areas, but on the plus side I'm not marshmallow-pale any more. Mmm. Marshmallows. (Speaking of, my Boo-urns shirt came while I was ( Read more... )