In the course of trying to research enough to find create one character's name in my NaNo, I've discovered prose poetry about Sephardic identity, a profile about the apparently huge and vibrant Ladino-speaking community in Seattle and, top this, rapping in Ladino, the lingua franca of Sephardic Judaism throughout the Mediterranean. (The name ( Read more... )

GUYS. GUYS.

Not only is Misha Collins awesome. And not only was he a White House intern.

GUYS. HE WENT TO THE U of C.* HE WAS A FRIGGING REG RAT.MR: How did you like Chicago ( Read more... )

Holy shit, it's the Calydonian Boar.

Joey Lucas Marlee Matlin is made of WIN!

So, uh, I have done a terrible thing in my head. I saw someone with a token Firefly "Public Relations Specialist" icon and now I am imagining C.J. Cregg and Jayne Cobb in a room together. Not a room room, just a room where they'd have to put up with each other and be ( Read more... )

Phwew. You know it's a small apartment when you cook sausages for breakfast and it fills the entire flat with smoke ( Read more... )

It's the last Saturday night of my college career, and I'm too wiped to go to any parties. Not that I actually know of any, mind, save the ongoing housewarming at Zach's place. I'm looking at places on Craigslist (hmm... hmm?), picking up stray threads from Milliways, and wondering idly if I should just go to bed ( Read more... )

When rymenhild asked me what I liked best about Chicago, and I answered Lake Michigan, this is what I meant.

These are virtually untouched in Photoshop, save for resizing.

Oh.

( We learned the sea. )

You know when the best time to swim in Lake Michigan is?

When you've consumed most of a large bottle of champagne at the UT barbeque and stripped down to your bra while there's a gorgeous, glorious thunderstorm brewing in Indiana ( Read more... )

Opening night: A SUCCESS ( Read more... )

Come see.


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IT WENT SO WELL!!!