brilliantnova is right - I never post anymore! I am cuh-razy busy with work (raise your hand if you have worked 10.5 hour days of labor!) and tend to spend my free time a) moving as little as possible or b) watching TV on a couch with Andy. I've also been going out after work a lot which I cannot understand because I am up at 6 and EXHAUSTED by the time 8pm ( Read more... )

LIFE IS INSANE ( Read more... )

I am now finally excited about Otakon, but really only because I'll be throwing together a Rose costume to go with plaidavenger's Tenth Doctor (new season two, of course, so brown suit). Seriously, fuck Otakon, I'm only barely desiring to go anyway. But this makes it rock ( Read more... )

1.With the preparations for my tomato sauce (for baked ziti) and caramelized onions (for a quiche) for tomorrow's party, I think I may be single-handedly supporting Japan's onion farmers. And I haven't even started on the prep for the lettuce wraps yet.


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Scrubbed the shower for about 45 minutes today, only managed to attack one wall, about a quarter of the floor, and the drain covers. It doesn't really look any better at all. I got all the mold and other disgustingness that just grows in there off the walls, but it doesn't seem to have visibly improved. I have covered my feet in bleach a lot today ( Read more... )

Visit to the hospital: ( motherfucking inconclusive )

Isn't Japan supposed to be socially ass-backwards? Like, in terms of women's rights, speaking freely, glass ceiling and all that? Well, WHY AREN'T WE HITTING CHILDREN, THEN!?!?!? Seriously, I think we should. I'd try it today on my Hellions, but I really don't want to get deported ( Read more... )

Okay. It is seriously time to consider a legal name change. Possibly to Dierde... which is how my name will appear in the program for what is essentially my premiere into the academic world ( Read more... )

I've totally been slacking on this whole journal-upkeep thing... no matter what that slacker quiz says. So, I think all the unfortunate readers deserve some sort of *real* update. Here goes ( Read more... )

I want to be at camp. I want to be at college. I want to be any place right now that isn't here. Where's here exactly? Home? God, yes. Southampton. Sure. Mental instability? Maybe. (mmm. Candy hearts ( Read more... )