This morning I took my laptop in to the computer guy to have it cleaned out. It's at that point in a laptop's life where everything's just slow, it's probably full of gunk, startup is occasionally problematic, booting up takes forever...yeah. Looking forward to a nice clean, optimized system. I hope he doesn't need to wipe everything. I mean, ( Read more... )

Once a month, about halfway through my Irritating Moon-Correlated Monthly Cycle of Ladyparts, I usually have this one day where I just feel like bursting into tears constantly, and for no particular reason, and then I wander around in a cloud of free-floating nonspecific anxiety. It's...disconcerting. It was yesterday ( Read more... )

I am slightly sick. I have just a little cold. Scratchy throat, etc. Man, NyQuil is some awesome stuff. Last night I had that achy-face feeling. You know, that feeling where it feels like the whole inside of your face aches? Does anyone else get that with colds? Just me? Anyhow, I took some before I went to bed. I could quite literally ( Read more... )

Gah, I remember why I don't like to go out on Saturday afternoons. Everyone and their brother was out. Plus a lot of St. Patrick's Day shit is going down tonight, so extra crazy on the side, please.

But I had a mission. I just got a new dress from eBay that I think is super cool (it's this dress) but *gasp* I didn't have the kind of necklace I ( Read more... )

My, the Olympics are entertaining. Even ONTD is awash with posts about whether Sean White is attractive or not (I vote yes, incidentally), how Evan Lysacek wants to be like James Bond (he's buying an Aston Martin, and he even has a Russian nemesis!) and how sibling ice-dancing pairs avoid the OMGICK factor when doing sexified ice dances like the ( Read more... )

Dayna and I went to Columbus Winterfair this afternoon. I've gone every year for the past few. It's an artsy/craftsy show thingie where the artisans come to ply their wares. It's fun. I've been going enough to know a lot of the vendors. They fall into a few categories.

1. The Jars and Mixes People. We always hit these first. Here are your ( Read more... )

This morning Mom and I went downtown to the farmer's market. It's been raining but we got in between showers. I got some beautiful zinnias, she got some delectable-looking tomatoes and a round loaf of crusty artisan sourdough bread (which is her favorite). We took our time driving back. We stopped at the jewelry store where I picked up two ( Read more... )

I just had the COOLEST IMPROMPTU THURSDAY NIGHT EVAR.Earlier today I got a tweet that my friend Greg, the astrophysicist/ballet dancer, was giving a talk about dark matter at a local observatory owned by Ohio Wesleyan University. Now, I love going to talks like this but I never seem to know where and when they are, and seeking them out is time- ( Read more... )

So, it seems that many of you share my taste in jewelry. The biggest vote-getters were for jewelry that's artisan-made, elegant, one-of-a-kind, bold and colorful ( Read more... )

So. A plan. I has it.

I'm having a book release party on May 2nd for the book. Of course, of all the various things I have to prepare for this, the one most occupying my thoughts lately is...what should I wear???I've decided that I will wear something simple in black, and then treat myself to a really fantastic piece of jewelry to show off. I' ( Read more... )