I was just browsing through my bookmarks to see what articles I had saved to read, and all three of the Straight Dope articles were related to bathrooms: "Why do we call it a bathroom?," "why do we call it the john?," and "why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors?" Unrelated: why is it that I can't spell "crescent" to save my life ( Read more... )

While finishing the last of my broccoli, I thought about what to do with myself. I didn't feel like watching "Destry Rides Again" or "The X-Files." I didn't feel like reading, and the thought of working on my clay project didn't even cross my mind. Then I thought watching "Star Wars: A New Hope" would be fun, and I could get some sketching in since ( Read more... )

So even though SAM had been exhibiting Picasso's art since October, I didn't roll my lazy ass over to see it until Saturday. With only three days left of the exhibit's run, you can imagine that tons of people wanted to see it before everything got packed up and shipped back off to Paris ( Read more... )

So let me start by saying that I am in some weird place right now. Mentally, not physically. I would say I'm still recovering from the holidays, but it's not like after Thanksgiving when it was like I had caught a case of narcolepsy or something. Instead I've just been reluctant to run my life efficiently. I didn't go out and buy groceries like ( Read more... )

So I landed in Oakland Thursday night. I hung out with my mom and stuff. This was the first year that she didn't pull out some decoration that she'd been "saving" for me to put up. In addition to my mom, grandma, and the dog, my cousin Ronizzle, his second baby mama, their kid, and my uncle was there. My uncle's girlfriend was also there most of ( Read more... )

So let me preface this with saying: I was one of those kids who never peed at school ( Read more... )

A dream: I'm at some sort of academic conference. My mom is an instructor there, giving lectures on biology. The place the conference is being held is a large, old mansion. Think of how the house in the movie Clue is decorated. I'm wandering around and checking the schedule. My mom's giving two talks, one on Biology, and one on Biology 101. It is ( Read more... )

I've been remiss in my lj updating, but that's because nothing noteworthy happens ( Read more... )

I can't really talk about Friday, because Friday was a night of poor decisions in the areas of intoxicating substances. Let's just saying that there was some drinking, and some smoking, and some eating, and some tator tots, some embarrassment (but too high to be mortified), some walking around, and some next day illness. All because I was at a ( Read more... )

I ate a pint of Ben 'n' Jerry's. Why did I do that? Why? I can at least say that it's been months and months since that's happened, so I don't feel too bad, because it won't happen again for another set of months and months (as opposed to senior year of college, when shitty freezers meant it might not happen for days and days ( Read more... )