I just re-downloaded the GIMP! Which means I can make graphics again, yay! And of course I tested it out by making a "nearly friends only" banner (after going "Help! How do I do this??" and running to Google). It's adorable, but far too large-and I haven't figured out how to resize it yet. I thought I already *had* as I was working on the picture ( Read more... )

I know, I haven't written a proper entry in a few weeks . . . but I saw this when I was checking my e-mail and I have to post it:

Yesterday's Savage Chickens cartoon"::is amused ( Read more... )

To-day's Savage Chickens offering is a new take on Sonnet 130. Hee!

See the complete Sonnet 130 here.

Why I now have a hard time reading/hearing this sonnet with a straight face: 'Let's all turn to page 53 in our poetry textbooks'. ^_^

~Michelle

Today's horoscope offering from My Yahoo!:

"Sometimes you feel like Alice at the tea party, but other times you identify with the Mad Hatter. Hey, go with it. Even a balanced and graceful sign like yours feels off-kilter every now and then."

Hee! I love when my horoscope is amusing (that's really the only reason I have it on there). It was about ( Read more... )

I never hardly ever title my posts and I probably should--it makes going back through things (to tag, re-read, &c. much easier ( Read more... )

This is mostly a bit of middle-of-the-night (slightly odd) rambling and suchlike ( Read more... )

We got at least six inches of snow today (and are meant to get more to-morrow)--due to this, and also because York has the same storm warning, our lab advisors decided we aren't going to be going to the ESA conference to-morrow ( Read more... )

It was just raining about ten minutes ago, but now it's turned to snow. Really big, wet-looking flakes of snow. But it still looks a bit like it's raining because it's snowing rather fast. Curious weather ( Read more... )

I was just flipping through my Sylvia Plath book to see how many more pages I need to read for tomorrow when I thought I saw a poem entitled "The Arrival of the Blue Box." Naturally, I went back to see whether I had read that wrong. I had. It's really "The Arrival of the Bee Box."

That is all--I just thought I'd share. ^_^

~Lily/Michelle

There is a diagram of a praire dog burrow in my physics book. While not as amazing as the example employing the utterly random salmon in an elevator, it's quite adorable. Especially the little cartoon prairie dogs. :)

That is all.
~Lily/Michelle