I've never been much of one for birthday parties, aside from a few wild rumpuses in my youth--the Cowboys & Indians-themed party for my ninth birthday will always be one of my very fondest memories, from the buffalo targets Dad made for us to practice our sharp-shooting to the Grand Canyon cake my mom improvised to wild success. In the last few ( Read more... )

Today is my twenty-sixth birthday! In celebration of which Fi rose at 6 a.m. to make delicious cinnamon-chip scones for breakfast. I undisputably have the best roommate ever. Do not even try to talk up how awesome your roommates are; mine is more so ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, phoenix_melody!


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I am already tired of having fat-lip pictures staring at me every time I glance at my lj, so half the purpose of this post is to push them further down the page. The other half is to talk about how absolutely amazing people are ( Read more... )

My lip has swollen grotesquely; I look like perma-pout, or like the collagen injection went wrong. Oddly this actually creates less pressure on the stitch-site, so it's more comfortable (less uncomfortable?) though still ridiculous-looking. Compare:

Yesterday:


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Well, this morning the interview happened. I'm still not sure what to think about it. It was quite brief--about 15 minutes--and rather impersonal; I didn't really feel like I had an opportunity to talk about myself, other than the accomplishments on my resume. And I fear my lack of firm connections to San Francisco (wish I'd known about the 2nd ( Read more... )

I am kind of confounded by how I can manage over 100 reviews on a fairly pointless character exploration fanfic, and yet can't scrape up more than a couple of friends who are willing to read my original writing and tell me what they think. Confounded and saddened (although I am very grateful for those few friends). I always knew fandom was a fickle ( Read more... )

The Internet is back! I am actually almost disappointed. I've been learning to live (and write) without it, though I admit it is good to have the wherewithal to share my writing. Especially because I am so excited about it. You guys I finished Firedrake Chapter Three! I started writing at 11 o'clock, after FHE and gym and Lego Star Wars and a trip ( Read more... )

We're two days into October, and after our long warm Indian summer, fall has decided to skip straight into winter. Seriously--30 degrees this morning when I was heading to school. Fortunately Fi is awesome and agreed to give me a ride to campus, which meant I made it to school 70 minutes early and had time to complete all my Admin Law reading ( Read more... )

I was talking with my roommates last night about what we want out of life, and it's started some thoughts stirring. Probably it's just mid-semester discontent; I don't want to be shut up in the library studying; I want to be hiking the Aspen Loop or going with my nieces to a pumpkin patch or baking something exciting or lying in a hammock reading a ( Read more... )