My parents and I were going to go up to Minneapolis this week to visit my brother and take in the Minnesota State Fair, preferably in the form of a bucket of Sweet Martha's chocolate-chip cookies paired with bottomless glasses of milk ( Read more... )

You know what she found at the thrift store, whilst I was sensibly looking at sweaters?

Two unopened sets of original flavor!Doctor Who DVDs, that's what. (The Tomb of the Cybermen and the Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes, neither of which I've seen anything of. Yet.) This should be funI got my mother into Doctor Who perhaps a little ( Read more... )

Nate, my brother's former roommate of three whole years, accidentally knocked his girlfriend up and they're having a baby together, like, any day now, or something like that.

(This is particularly noteworthy because Nathan, my brother's BFF from their days together in private fundy Christian school, accidentally knocked his girlfriend up and they ( Read more... )

Arrived safely in South Dakota. At a rest area in Iowa, there was an enormous raccoon sitting in front of the doors eating a burrito, seemingly willing to tolerate our comings and goings, so long as we did not mess with her burrito ( Read more... )

2745 / 50000 words. 5% done ( Read more... )

This weekend my family visited the Minnesota State Fair, where my brother was broadcasting live video over amateur radio from a weather balloon that they had tethered over the University of Minnesota building. We consumed massive quantities of food, all of which was fried and/or on-a-stick, fought our way through massive crowds, probably swelled ( Read more... )

In honor of my brother's brief visit this weekend, last night we revived the tradition of the Viking bonfire. We pillaged a bottle of locally-brewed mead from the liquor store, built a fire in our backyard and, toasting each other Viking-fashion, read aloud from the text Danny selected, the Prose EddaDanny, who did the honor of the reading this ( Read more... )

My mom is so awesome! She found this Legolas standee at a garage sale and set him up in my apartment and made everyone pose for pictures with him ( Read more... )

I just got back from seeing Star Trek with my mom! She hadn't actually watched Star Trek since the first run of TOS back when there were like two channels and there was nothing else on, but she is a big fan of J. J. Abrams ever since I got her hooked on Alias. Her only complaint was that she couldn't hear what was going on in the Kobayashi Maru ( Read more... )

Oh my. They say you imprint on your first Doctor, and I have to say that I am finding that to be the case ( Read more... )