Why is there no em-dash on my keyboard? Really, it's way more useful than that vertical line above the forward-slash. This thing: | I mean, what do you even use it for? Aside from showing the absolute value of a number (-|-3x1|, for example), what use is it? Just because most people use a hyphen instead of a dash (wrong, wrong, stop it at once.) ( Read more... )

The Dictionary.com Word of the Day today is 'perambulate'! That's my favorite synonym for 'walk', and one of my most favorite words ever (along with defenestrate, exaltation, convivial, and voluptuous ( Read more... )

What do you mean-"Half full or half empty"? It's not half anything! There's nothing in there: It's just plain emptyI was going to make that the subject, but it was too long. Bummer, dude ( Read more... )

Still sick.

I am so tired. Triplets of Belleville is a great movie; very funny, very beautiful.

I shall be off to bed soon, to remain there for a while, I should think.

Things I Have Obsessively Organized Today:

-My shirt drawer
-Three kitchen cabinets

Things I Was Actually Asked To Organize:

-One kitchen cabinet

Dental Related Appointments I Have Next Friday:

-Orthodontist.
-Dr. Referred-By-Dentist-So-Hopefully-Not-Incompetent-Boob, to see about getting my wisdom teeth out.
Books I Possibly Shouldn't Be ( Read more... )

I went to the city (San Francisco, natch) with my mom today; she's taking over this pet store for a week while the owner's away, and we went up to see how everything worked and whatnot. My presence was fairly superfluous, aside from being the one who know where we were going (sort of), but it was such a lovely day, I agreed to go anyway. Although ( Read more... )

I have been watching quite a bit of Jeeves & Wooster ('Jooster' as Stephen Fry called it) lately. Delightful, really ( Read more... )

It's raining like God's going to call up Noah any minute. Alright, perhaps I'm exaggerrating, but the feeling's true ( Read more... )

It makes me happy that Hugh and Stephen are lined so neatly in my userpics. Is that a sign I need to go to bed?

I cannot make color icons anymore. I try, but I just end up making them black and white in the end. My muse is broken.

I was going to whine about icons for a bit more, but I think I'll just go to sleep. 2:09 shouldn't exist.

Of course, her very existence as a man was peculiar; it is to that particular nugget which we are referring to, rather than that her character, as a man or otherwise, was peculiar ( Read more... )