Happy new year! I hope that everyone reading this, if anyone is still reading this, had a pleasant holiday season. We did, overall, but I'll get to that in a moment ( Read more... )

This past weekend I went to my college reunion. It has been 16 years since I graduated, but because Oberlin does reunions in "clusters," it was officially called my 15th anniversary reunion (for the classes of 1996, 97, and 98). The last time I was in Oberlin was in 2002 for my 5th (really 6th) reunion, and it was there and then that I made the ( Read more... )

I forgot to wish orbitalmechanic a happy birthday on her actual birthday, but I saw her the day before and said happy birthday then so that counts. ;)

I also forgot to wish whuffle and yulecat happy birthdays yesterday, so happy belated birthday to them, and anyone else I also missed, sorry.

But in particular, whuffle has been on my mind this week, because I showed Isaac a ( Read more... )

Wow, we had a busy weekend! Finally the weather is warming up and it's really starting to feel like summer, YAY ( Read more... )

Things have been pretty stressful around here the past few months, not coincidentally coinciding with my dramatic decrease in LJ posts ( Read more... )

Lily Clevenger is the niece of a friend of mine. She is seven years old. She has stage 4 cancer. It started in her jaw and throat, and has spread to her lungs and pelvis. Lily begins chemotherapy today, and it will last at least a year, if she survives. At last report her doctor said that she has about a 30% chance of survival ( Read more... )

Happy birthdays to orbitalmechanic and ladyvyola (belatedly) and whuffle and roozle and yulecat (today). Whew!

Also yesterday was the birthday of my cousin Connor, also known as the kid on whom orbitalmechanic taught me how to change a diaper. That was a LONG time ago. I'm pretty sure he turned 19 yesterday. *facepalm* I am old ( Read more... )

Spam subject of the day: "You deserve to not be ignored by women!" Uh, no, I think that if I'm lame enough to be considering purchasing "enhancement" products from random spam email, then I definitely deserve to be ignored by women. And men ( Read more... )

Happy birthdays to skreeky (today) and fox1013, mishaslair, lbmango, and tiggrrl (tomorrow)! Whew!

Oh man. What a weekend!

( In which the best-laid plans of mamas and grandmas go badly awry, but we prevail in the end. )