I've been thinking about this blog lately. I'm mostly succeeding at keeping up with facebook and twitter, although I have a pile of unread messages in my fb inbox. I'm mostly not-succeeding in keeping up with email. But at least briefly, I miss hearing a little more about friends' lives. I also miss hearing a little more about non-lj friends' ( Read more... )

I'm happy to announce that I've finally taken the time to visit the band's website + YouTube, and listen to the new vocalist for my favorite Finnish gothic metal band, Nightwish. Anette Olzon was announced as the new vocalist back in May 2007, but I hadn't been staying informed about the search for a new vocalist after Tarja left/was fired/ ( Read more... )

So, I've started watching Full Metal Alchemist.

Since finishing Babylon 5, I have watched a few episodes from various fun TV shows, but I haven't continued watching more than a few successive episodes of any of them. (Although, I'm waiting for my second Rescue Me Season 1 disc from Netflix; I may continue watching that series.) When I visited ( Read more... )

This is the slowest. work day. ever. The only task I had today was to continue cleanup in the aftermath of last week's massive brief -- i.e., shuffle papers and move boxes. I go away from my desk, shuffle some papers, come back, and only like 10 minutes has passed. Uuuuuuugh. So, nothing for it but to write a random lj post ( Read more... )

My last set of icons felt personally appropriate and generally useful, so that new-icon-urge did not appear for awhile. However, it has been creeping up on me, and yesterday it appeared in full force. Thus, I have a new, exciting icon set! I'm very fond of my new default icon, the wizard Howl from the Diana Wynne Jones book & Miyazake movie Howl ( Read more... )

...as we discover at the poker game, Wilson has a razr. Squee! A beautiful phone for a beautiful man.

OK, enough with the completely frivolous posts for now.

(although maybe I'll finally get one, one with the flat screen AND high definition that I've been wishing for, with my tax refund ( Read more... )