Last night I was looking through Craigslist ads when I found one for the old apartment building I lived in before my current place. Apparently they are having a special deal if you sign a 12 month lease. I could get a one bedroom (NOT a studio, a real, one bedroom place) with w/s/g, and application fees waived because the manager has positive ( Read more... )

So angry. So very angry. Last night I was reading PZ's blog, as I do everyday. He had posted a funny cartoon of various forms of libertarian insanity. I wanted to see how Randy compared, but it was hard to read the cartoon, so I followed a link to a larger image ( Read more... )

I have a few minutes before work starts. It is Thursday, so seven more days until my trip. I've become a bit stressed about it because I am worried something will go wrong. There are a lot of variables, including Damian being extremely sick right now, and my grandmother's condition, although my mom says she is doing better ( Read more... )

Poor Damian. It was supposed to be "my" weekend, because it was my birthday, where we hung out all.weekend and did stuff. I wanted to go out, for dinner(s) and maybe a movie. We were going to see the aquarium and maybe the Science Center and folklife. Because I'm horribly nerdy I guess ( Read more... )

Today is the 30 year anniversary of Mt St Helens erupting. I wish I could have seen it, but I was still too much of a fetus. I still had a few more days to go.

I think the eruption occurring so close to my birthday is, in part, what made me so curious about geology. Especially geology that goes boom. I've asked a lot of people what they ( Read more... )

I am really fucking sick of overtime. Only three areas are still on it, mine included. They keep asking me to work Saturdays. I keep saying no. They already monopolize enough of my time as it is. I leave the house at 5 every day and don't get home until after 7. How much after 7 depends on things like if the goddamned shuttle has forgotten us ( Read more... )