( a slice, even )

I have been absolutely devouring Wanderlust by Elisabeth Eaves, even though it is filling me with an awful amount of, well, you know.

The spit was a hundred yards wide, with a dirt road running most of its length. We drove out a mile or so and got out. Nirit and I took off our shoes, cracked open beers, and sat down on the sand. A full moon ( Read more... )

1. In case you didn't know, I love this man. I love his humble "proud papa" moments.

2. I love this, too. (taken from here)

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I strained a glute or some such thing about a week and a half ago at the gym and have been trying to take it easy ever since. While the rational side of me knows a week or so of actually resting the muscle won't make a whit of difference in terms of long term fitness progress (and stressing said muscle will do more harm than good), Kimberley Type ( Read more... )

I will admit that, on occasion, I catch myself worrying that the "whole mass animal deaths" business is a "So long and thanks for all the fish bread crumbs." sort of thing. Birds, man. They creep me out ( Read more... )

Hills. If you think you are in pretty good shape - for example, I work out about four times a week and walk/take the stairs whenever possible - go to San Francisco. The hills will LAUGH at you. No able-bodied adult who lives in the city of San Francisco, has any excuse whatsoever for not having a perfectly exquisite ass. All inhabitants have ( Read more... )

Last night, dressed in a dead man's shirt, a pair of shorts, and a robe, I sat out on a blanket under the stars in hopes of seeing the Perseids. Unfortunately, much like last year, impatience and the mosquitoes got the better of me. Also, I have always had this thing where, if I lie on my back and look up at the sky, I experience a sensation of ( Read more... )

Well now, has anyone watched season four of The Tudors?
( thoughts on episodes one through three )

I took up Anna Karenina again. I'm halfway through it and thoroughly convinced it could have been at least two hundred pages shorter. The scene in which Kitty and Levin finally make up their minds to be together is beautiful, but mostly I keep thinking, oh good, now maybe he will stop talking about farming ( Read more... )