It was very very much A Weekend and I am starting the week the week fairly exhausted so that's great. But:

Watched Captain Marvel on Thursday evening and enjoyed it - was a fun movie, above average in my own personal MCU ranking but not way up top. When I got home I was like, that was nice, but I remember Brie Larson can really really really pack ( Read more... )

As usual, where to start from after so long away - an assortment ( Read more... )

I've been back from North America for a week that's been chock full of events, which is partly why I'd set my return date for August - a bachelorette party and birthdays and goodbye parties and my dad's 60th bday (which, thank you for all of you who helped me either record messages or cajole strangers across the US and Canada to record birthday ( Read more... )

-yuletide rec post for the fandoms I nominated even though there's almost NO TIME for people to catch up before sign ups ( Read more... )

You know what I suck at? Writing timely holiday fic. So let's just pretend I wrote the Lag BaOmer(*) holiday fic ( where every year Gabe Saporta hosts this epic campfire shindig in his backyard forest )

Yesterday my iPod shuffled I Got Rhythm from An American in Paris as I was walking down the train platform, which meant that I heard Gene Kelly tap-dancing for about five minutes and had to hold myself back from dancing with him, because I tragically do not know how. There was some skipping and head bobbing though ( Read more... )

Sooooooo full oh my god. I won't torture you with descriptions of the menu, except to say that dessert was an enormous meringue pie topped with heaps of whipped cream and strawberries and kiwis *____*.

Dinner conversation included a (long) (and tedious, if only because I already know everyone's stories) round of What Were You Tried For In The ( Read more... )

FIRSTLY, if you are currently at Muskrat Jamboree 2011, 1) I'm extremely jealous because Boston + fangirls = the best thing I can possibly imagine, 2) I hope you're having a blast, 3) TELL EVERYONE I SAID HI whether I know them or not, and 4) I have Skype if you want to, like, virtually meet/talk to one more person! I'm just saying. I should ( Read more... )

My mom just showed me this article in today's paper, about an event honoring the 8 remaining founders of the kibbutz of Beit Keshet, 65 years after it was founded.

In August 1944, at Yigal Alon's orders, the company sought to create a continuous sequence of territories between Kfar Tavor, Kaduri and Ilania. On the 15th, at 3AM, the 34 members went ( Read more... )

Thursday-Saturday in photos ( Read more... )