life is cruel. it is gorgeous and sunny and warm, and i am trapped indoors grading papers. hooray for self-abnegation. on the plus side, an hour more of sunlight, and hey, they changed the laws! there's a month more of summer time this year. ha ha. (if i had my way, we'd never fall back ( Read more... )

... the cat with no name just left pawprints all over my shiny silver computer. i don't really know why she's such a fan of my computer, but she obviously is; she comes downstairs at night and sits on top of the ac adaptor, and i just came back in the room after leaving for a while to discover her resting comfortably on top of the computer (which ( Read more... )

warning: anyone disturbed by accounts of killing snakes should avoid this entry or skip 3 paragraphs to get to the part about cute squirrels ( Read more... )

eeeeek!!! a mouse ( Read more... )

so i just talked to my dad and we ended up discussing, for some reason, insects. (oh, because i said if i had to live somewhere with only one season i'd almost rather be in the tropical zone than up here in the CONSTANT FRICKIN COLD THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL THAT COLD JUST REALLY ANNOYINGLY AND SHIVERINGLY COLD.) in taiwan there are these spiders - which ( Read more... )