I promise I'm still around! I even live-tweeted the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. There were ballet dancers, pretty graphics, and also some spectacular fail that I hope didn't land anyone in jail cell.

Someone please try and dissuade me from purchasing yet another skincare product, even though it is the first product I have ever found that gets rid of my perpetual under-eye dark circles and puffiness, and the fact that spending $38 for something that will probably last me at least a few months isn't that bad. I don't actually want to be one of ( Read more... )

Today I did my first 5K walk ever, on two hours' notice, at noon, 80 degree weather, in a pencil skirt and ballet flats. For some reason this feels 100% appropriate.

1. Spent some time being concerned because Fern stopped scratching her post and was increasingly destroying banisters/jumping at walls/risking electrocution by pawing at outlets. Turns out her post was a kitten-sized one and now that we've gotten a bigger post she's scratching at it merrily ( Read more... )

So, does anyone else ever, like, make up names for the people who you see all the time in your office building/waiting for the bus/around the neighborhood, who you maybe talk to sometimes but you don't actually know their names? Like how the guy I always see walking his dogs used to be "Hipster Arthur" (because he looked like Arthur from Inception ( Read more... )

Pursuant to this post, today's fandomsecrets #6 evidently benefited much from the original thread from my secret. Happy to help, anon! <3

So I'm fantasy casting a 'Julius Caesar' film with my friend Liz - the play hasn't been filmed since the 70s, so it's clearly time for a remake. Thus far we've cast, in alphabetical order ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I ended up discussing my cat's tapeworm with my hairdresser today. Probably the same way parents end up talking about their baby's bodily functions. Yikes.

I posted this on facebook this morning, but I see no reason not to re-state ( Read more... )

And then I signed up for i_reversebang, because why the hell not, right? It's a minimum of 3000 words, and I can definitely do that. Well. *knocks on wood*

It's a busy week this week, although not half as busy as next week is going to be. And also I'm turning 25 on Sunday? Yeah, I don't know how that happened. Weird.