Today I went to the San Diego Polo Club and saw my first-ever polo match --possibly my last, because I don't know if I'd have even thought of it before, let alone driven all the way out to a polo grounds, if it hadn't been an alumni event.

[Polo is fun!]
This was something I heard about through Cambridge in America.  It was mostly an Ivy League event, but they ( Read more... )

So you remember this?


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I honestly hadn't heard of Nigella Lawson except in passing, but her husband Charles Saatchi is divorcing her:  AFTER she moved out of the house with the kids and refused to speak to him when he choked her in a restaurant.

Boo hoo, Charles, she's so sorry about this.

What was she upset about?

[Pictures, personal shit, you don't have to read this. Trigger warnings apply]These pictures. Or rather, I hope, what he was doing ( Read more... )

This isn't a review of the movie, BTW, in case you want not to be spoiled.  I'm putting that in another post entirely ( Read more... )

Mycroft knows it is true, because he knows everything ( Read more... )

Go and watch on the Hub on TV (12:30 ET, 9:30 PT), or check your local listings!  It's funny, and do it to give it a big bump (it'll need it after the unfair bashing it's gotten all week.) If you don't get the Hub, watch it online at the Hub for free ( Read more... )

Freaking TERMITES ( Read more... )

Like so many updates, it's taking a bit of time. Right now I am prepping to have my house fumigated, plus I am working on this committee, and now I have a bunch of proposals and papers to do and a sabbatical to prepare for, which, YAY, although now I will have to cough up the cash to travel to Virginia and Staunton in the fall.  All worth it, ( Read more... )

So as some of you know, yesterday was the premiere of Season 3 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  If you haven't seen the episode yet, it's here. I also recently attended EQLA, so I have various pictures to share!

There are a thousand other things I should be doing, like grading and cleaning.  Whatever, ponies.

First of all, and this is ( Read more... )

Can I please have my birthday back?  It's bad enough that I can't even talk to my parents because they have no power and no cell service, and that a lot of the places I remember from my childhood are gone,  but the total cancelling of Halloween is making me feel really depressed. If you have a holiday birthday, maybe you'll understand.  You get so ( Read more... )