omgggggg, we just had our first ice storm of the year! my bike was covered in a thin sheen of gross :( it was melted by this morning though, and the streets were mainly melted as well except for some of the smaller side streets. so work hasn't been an awful disaster so far...but i might still take the bus for the afternoon portion because i am lazy ( Read more... )

it probably isn't good for me, but i used my questionable "skills" to extract a four-second clip from the song "imitosis" so i can listen to andrew bird say "it was anything but hear the voice that says that we're all basically alone" over and over. no waiting, no rewinding. just press play. instant gratificationcider and whiskey ( Read more... )

so last weekend (not this last weekend, but last last weekend), when it was below zero without the windchill factored in, i had to work. as in, all day, from seven-thirty in the morning until six at night on saturday, and then only for an hour or two on sunday. to be quite fair, this eleven-hour day did include a few hours' break between the time ( Read more... )

you know how when you like someone, you sort of pull punches with them? maybe let them walk all over you? maybe don't speak up when you disagree with them? etcetera etcetera ( Read more... )