I started my Livejournal ten years ago today, when I was crushingly depressed, in the middle of my senior thesis, and so gray that Buffy was one of the only things that kept me going. I wrote a bit about how reading valeriez's LJ got me to start using the word "depression" for what I was feeling, and I wanted an LJ of my own both to talk about my own ( Read more... )

• I have moved! Okay, so I am still moving a ton of things over slowly, but I have spent a week in the new place. I think once I get the commute down, it will save me an hour a day and probably a lot more in terms of frustration.
• I have not talked about the ratses much lately! Here, have a Flickr set! The quality is pretty awful, since they're all ( Read more... )

Whoo! I hit 30 last weekend! Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, and I apologize if I missed some due to being only sporadically online of late ( Read more... )

Despite actually accomplishing a good deal this weekend (finishing the knitting on umadoshi's tatami kimono, applying for a visa for Taiwan, taking Ren to the vet, assorted other errands), I feel like I have not done much. The tatami kimono is now blocking, Ren has antibiotics though I am still worried because he is now an elder rat, the visa is out of my ( Read more... )

... not that I was really gone, since I obsessively check email and LJ and comments even when I'm visiting other people.

Anyhow, I had, as sophia_helix calls it, a night of extreme debauchery, if you count eating lots of chocolate and cookies, watching lots of Honey and Clover and Black Books, and knitting a lot as extreme debauchery. Also, actoplasm was nice enough ( Read more... )

1. I met up with jinian and W. last last week, and we had delicious fusion Vietnamese, complete with duck spring rolls. I love duck spring rolls. Whoever thought of them was a genius. I burbled madly about quite a few anime and manga series to both of them and now must remember to mail some over, and then I dragged them over and sicced rats on them ( Read more... )

Last night, when I stepped out after dancing, the world had been transformed from the somewhat oddly warm winter night to the California version of London. I could see maybe ten to twenty feet in front of me, and everything was blurred over, like I had lost my glasses. I feel like I should write about this romantically, but all I can think of are ( Read more... )

Things learned this time around:

1. Going in to work at 5 in the morning still sucks.

2. While Starbucks is open at 4:30am, Peet's is not. Fie.

3. Excel continues to be the Best Thing Ever (tm).

4. Anal retentiveness is a good thing.

5. Not having Big Project to worry about? Priceless.

So, I've been procrastinating so much on this post that I've actually done some book blogging, wow ( Read more... )

As I told someone yesterday, I didn't just have a Monday yesterday. I've been having about two months of Mondays.

( The List of Woe )