So since The Move I've been vaguely annoyed that I'm so much further from an El stop. I like to be forced to walk but it was nice to be able to walk to a stop really quickly if I was suddenly inspired to do something ( Read more... )

Yea! Till We Have Faces has shipped! Woo hoo ( Read more... )

Both alternates were very good suggestions. After I stared at them for a little while I went with lemonsareinplay and then realized that hunt_the_lemon was brilliant and set that up as well.  I went with a journal rather than a community so that each lemon can have its own tracking post.

Now I need to decide if I want to do a test run with some real ( Read more... )

Almost all pictures were taken by my Kurt Russell. All quoted text comes from A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery: A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour by Barbara Lanctot. Any errors or typos are mine alone.

Every year on my birthday we do ‘something’ and in 2011 we took a walking tour of Graceland Cemetery, self-guided by the above-named ( Read more... )

But still quite lovely, and extremely obliging.

( Pics under the cut )

This entry brought to you by djarum99 because she is wonderful and check out my awesome icon she made for me!

( Lots of pics taken over the course of the last month under the cut. )

I am seriously considering never leaving the house again without my camera; because you just never know when someone is going to put up a sign that, if you tell anyone you saw it, no one is going to believe you.
( See the sign and more pics under the cut )

Just a couple quick thoughts which I'd like to exorcise.

Dear CTA,
Please raise your one-way fare from $2.25 to $2.50.  This way, you still get my entire $5 bill, but I don't feel ripped off for that $0.50 every single time.  Please see my latest fic for reference.
Cordially yours,
an occasional rider

Readers seem to prefer the fic that mugged me and ( Read more... )

Beauty and the Beast is stalking me. I think it feels neglected, and I can’t really blame it. This means that last Friday night we saw a production of it in which the eldest niece played Gaston’s sidekick rather than the chandelier and other various bits - double cast switched on alternate performances. Considering the age of the children ( Read more... )

Ha.  So this morning I dug out some CDs for the car because I must stop chain listening to the Sherlock soundtrack or I will just give up and hop the next plane to Heathrow.  I popped in the Crazy Heart soundtrack, and track #2 is a song entitled ‘Hello Trouble’ and it hit me that here is basically a complete distillation of Luke/Lorelai.  There’s ( Read more... )