So I've been looking into heraldry lately for a story I'm writing (it's too early to tell whether it'll be a shortie or a novel), and out of curiousity I checked out the coats of arms and mottoes for my ancestry. I'm still a total beginner when it comes to this stuff (after all, it's hundreds of years old and super complex!), but I learned that you ( Read more... )

In a recent campaign commercial for Democratic Senate challenger Claire McCaskill (MO), Michael J. Fox made an appearance asking voters to support her, and by proxy stem-cell research. For those who live under rocks, Fox has Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disease that causes uncontrollable shaking and is one of the many conditions stem-cell ( Read more... )

Lately I've been staying up later (earlier?) than ever before...it's not that I'm not getting tired, or that I can't get to sleep once I go to bed...it's that I don't want to go to sleep. There's so much stuff I have left to do, even all-nighters aren't enough. When did all this pile up? Anyway, to my fellow Iowa fangirls, The List is probably ( Read more... )

Just switched out my userpics for a brand new set, with many animated ones! Yay!

Look at the cute wolf pup. LOOOOK AT THE CUTE!

I just noticed something...
Anderson Cooper is strangely attractive...
It's 3.5 AM and that's all you need to know.

My cat just fell asleep on top of a book, and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen.

That is all.

I am such a geek. I get all this moolah for graduation, and what're the first two things I buy? Kingdom Hearts II and all of Battlestar Galactica. Yep. So nerdy it's painful ( Read more... )

The distinction between an onion and an oven is an important one to be able to make, especially when baking cakes.

This has been Elizabeth's life lesson for the day.

Pirate people: Sorry, but we're going to have to put a wait on posting the stories. They will go up eventually, but I've been caught up in preparation for relatives and they simply ( Read more... )

Spent all of Wednesday, yesterday, and today lying in bed or on the couch in a puddle of primordial ooze...except for the hour at the doctor yesterday, during which I had two throat cultures and a blood sample taken, then they discovered I wasn't up to date on some vaccination or other, so now I've got marks on both arms and look like I'm a junkie ( Read more... )