So, just to remind everybody, this got started because Beth and Quark were both like I JUST DON’T LIKE SCI-FI AND I DON’T KNOW WHY, and so I decided to start theorizing as to why, because part of me loves sci-fi, but I’m also with them-I haven’t encountered much (outside of the Star Wars books, and many of those are not as readable when you’re 24 ( Read more... )

So I'm back home, yay! Sitting in my favorite locally-owned coffee shop sucking down fruit tea, yay! Staring at my AmeriCorps application with a great deal of trepidation. I am dumb. Avoiding it by making this post! This is not my graduation post; this is my "what should I read this summer?" post ( Read more... )

my whole life, when I've read about scents and stuff in books--like, people catching a whiff of this or that--I always assumed that was just Something That Happened. Like, you threw in something about so-and-so's hair smelling like their shampoo or something because that was just another detail about the person you could include ( Read more... )

Just the other day, I was thinking about how I haven't used my "the deaths of famous people" tag in a while, and then I heard that

Ed McMahon had passed away

but by the time I found out I figured it was old news.

And then today I get on and was sad to find out that Farrah Fawcett, whose bangs (fringe for the Brits) I will always admire, has also ( Read more... )

1)  I love my new icon because it really conveys the motion of the scene.  (Malone is sitting here calling me a "nerdy nerdy flabfat."  "I'm making fun of you!  She has ears!  *squishes ear*  Huhuh wow, that's really weird-looking.  I could sew your ear shut like that and nobody would love you.  Could you hear worse or better?  *notices that I am ( Read more... )