Hey dearest friends, my birthday is Thursday. I always love my birthday, because it's a holiday just for me! But this year, I'm expecting there to be some family fail associated with it. To try to counter those icky feelings, I thought I'd ask you all to help me celebrate. If you're able, would you consider:

- reccing me a recipe you've made and ( Read more... )

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( Four short scenes featuring my wife, who finds humans and the media they consume to be an ongoing challenge to understand )

I am going to spend my entire morning attempting to distract myself from the cyber Monday deals on etsy. Mostly because I am DONE my shopping. We usually try to do a mix of handmade-by-us Christmas gifts and handmade-by-others, but with being able to give wedding pictures to some people and some deal-centered shopping ahead, the gift-giving is ( Read more... )

I don't even know, it's gorgeous out, chilly and sunny, and I have coffee and I made two pies last night, and all of those things make me happy, except that I'm alone at work this morning and it's damn lonely. I'm doing story research to try to lessen some of the estrangement, which means that I come across headlines in google like this one: " ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that I was Clarice Starling sometime after the events of Hannibal ( spoilers for the book, though, surprisingly, not the movie because they changed the ending )

When in doubt about what to watch, I'll often turn to my X-Files DVDs, and I've been watching my way through season one, which is always a delightful trip through the show's origin stories. Mulder has a crippling fear of fire! Scully just wants a nice guy to settle down with so she can have kids (but when presented with a Nice Guy who comes with ( Read more... )

I remember going to see the first X-Files movie in the theater. It was the middle of summer, and the friends I went with were playing some strange game of something that was kind of like tag but with a spoon? I don't remember. What I do remember was getting out to the parking lot after the movie and having been so lost in Fight the Future that I ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Memento Mori. It was randomly airing on Sci Fi right before I had to go to work, and even though I know the episode well enough to complete lines of the dialog, I wanted to watch the whole thing. I love Scully so much, and the long opening shot of her in her hospital gown, looking at an x-ray of her own tumor, with the ( Read more... )

This week, seriously. I know I said that last week, but this week, I don't even know. The work-week was only four days long, but somehow, they ended up being some of the longest days ever. I wonder if the universe was trying to make up for the fact that I didn't get any work done on Monday and thought maybe I might want those hours back ( Read more... )