I'm off to Washington, DC next weekend for a business trip! Terribly exciting. I'm looking forward to riding the metro by myself and getting up to all sorts of hijinks. There won't be much down time for site-seeing, but I am bound and determined to get to the Library of Congress, if it's at all possible. Can you believe I've been to DC twice ( Read more... )

The other day I saw the saddest thing in the world: an overweight, middle-aged man in grungy clothes, standing by the dumpsters of a gas station late at night, scratching at a lottery ticket. Better luck next time, mister. Or perhaps better luck next life; this one does not seem to have been good to you ( Read more... )

It would appear that I have become some sort of blogger. >_> Yeah. I know. But it could maybe be cool! I now write for The Bohemian, a friend's travel blog. But, Stephanie, you say. You don't travel that much. I know, little reader. I don't know how this actually works either. But you can go read my post on San Diego anyway! Speaking of ( Read more... )

Oh, I completely forgot! I posted some things on Arthurian legend at my other journal:
Arthurian reading list.
Crash course in Arthurian history.

Do enjoy. :)

Sadly, the trees at the elementary school were not that great. Also, there are evidently all sorts of very strict rules about trespassing on school property, going by the signs and padlocks. I did find another climbable tree here at my apartment, but it's nothing special. I think I'll have to go back to the park with the crazy strangler figs for ( Read more... )

I've meant to update this for several weeks, and I keep getting too busy! Crunch time of the semester is simultaneously hideous and wonderful. If I don't die, things will be grand ( Read more... )

Reportedly posted by Ernest Shackleton in London newspapers preparatory to setting off on an expedition to the Antarctic ( Read more... )

The above Flannery O'Connor quote is so true as to be frightening ( Read more... )