The snake kept me up all night. She was redecorating ( Read more... )

Public service announcement: My snake is back, and so is my father! The events are related; my father returned from his five-week solo hiking trip (California to Canada), and my mother immediately saw the snake in the room with the mice, and commanded him to grab her. We're a whole family again ( Read more... )

Saw Die Fliengen Höllander (English: The Flying Dutchman) at Seattle Opera on Friday night. It was pretty good, on the level of most Seattle Wagner (we are America's Wagner town), and starring Greer Grimsley and Jane Eaglen as the Dutchman and Senta. They were awesome, as usual-- I don't think there's ever been Wagner where they didn't sing ( Read more... )

I'm back from Michigan. The flights over were mostly uneventful-- I slept for the entirety fo the first one, the second one I ran into one of the guys from the cherry factory, one of the last people I wanted to see. Nice enough guy, just why did he have to be there? I wanted to sleep, not be awoken with an inquisitive "Marika ( Read more... )

Well, folks, I'm back.

I've avoided updating until I could offer picspam, and now that I've uploaded a few of my favorite pictures, I can.

( So here we go! Obviously, very very picture-heavy. )

Our guide on safari. My god. If my brother was gay I would have scheduled a wedding for the two of them ( Read more... )

MY ENTIRE ROOM SMELLS LIKE BLOOD.

Half of it's coming from me and some of it's because Constance is too big for mice but not yet big enough for rats, so I've given her half a rat and she seems to be having difficulty with it, and-- ew. Ew, I say; animal blood is gross. I may need to start buying her hamsters, my God; they're fat and big but they' ( Read more... )

Staying up until 2 in the morning reading quotes by My Chemical Romance band members does not a productive workday make. Oh well, I am full of coffee and getting paid to blog ( Read more... )

Because I don't care if this is too big, this picture is the happiest one I've taken in ages (despite my facial expression in it; I was trying to figure out how to work the flash).

( However, I will cut it for those of you afraid of snakes. )

All right, for those of you who actually got taken in by my last post: No, I didn't actually meet Gerard Way and do his laundry for him. XD I did, however, go to Don Giovanni with peridium and enjoyed it (and also bought the "So many women, only one Don" and "Life is short. Opera is long. Wagner is forever at Seattle Opera" t-shirts, the latter of which ( Read more... )