TY to everyone who voted in my silly poll yesterday! Trash has been taken out, and the panda and mouse are still here. The mouse is sitting in a shipping box waiting for my mom to be allowed to go back to her apartment (I'll tell her the internet voted!), and I'll start asking around to different charities when I have a moment for the panda (and a ( Read more... )

Sideline: My husband is driving me crazy. His project is over and he's home now awaiting news from work (of which there has been none at all). It's made my schedule even more out of whack, plus he's stressed and hair-trigger-temper-y and generally I just wish he had an office to go to. We do well as a couple when we have personal space. Lots of ( Read more... )

Short RL digression: we still don't know anything about Rob's job. Now *he's* worried. And I don't know how I feel about that. For a while I felt like Chicken freaking Little for being scared to death when he's completely sanguine, yet his lack of worry was semi-comforting. Now we're two small spheres of scared orbiting each other and trying to ( Read more... )

This was a comment made by Mara Liasson from NPR (who I'm a big fan of-- I watch "Special Report" mainly for her and the snarky comments made by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, who I don't always agree with, but who has gravitas aplenty) on tonight's Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume, speaking about McCain's decision to involve ( Read more... )

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This thread on fanficrants has given me a silly shortfic parody bunny, wherein Salazar Slytherin enforces the "no electricity, must use parchment and quills" rule while the others are off distracting themselves. (Rowena Ravenclaw is busy reading the blogosphere. She has to be.) If I can manage to get some work done, I think I'll actually write this. Crackfic ( Read more... )