I got some pretty awful news last night. Nothing that affects me personally, but still, it's the kind of news you don't want to get anyway. I'm going to cut the news itself, but here, have some of the fun and amusing things I've been doing feel better.

* Google's Pac-man header is playable. Also: I kinda suck at Pac-Man ( Read more... )

I just heard from Heather that Chris Dziura died on Sunday. He was my husband in Company. He was just a year older than I am. His widow was a wife for barely three months.

Holy Trying to Process, Batman.

Dom Deluise died in his sleep last night

I'm probably just showing my age (or relative maturity level), but when I think of him, I think in terms of cartoons:

The Secret of Nimh, All Dogs Go to Heaven, An American Tail, Oliver and Company, The Muppet Movie (technically not a cartoon but whatevs)...

I know he was in a lot of other movies (Space ( Read more... )

was simultaneously incredibly awesome and heart-wrenchingly sad. The sadness is not mine to discuss, so I won't, but I do wish to give a shout-out to doompuppy for being great, and evan712, lucasthegray, and docsmiley for holding down the fort (and cleaning it up) after we left.

Tis No Deceit (To Deceive a Deceiver) was a ton of fun. I was a pretty, pretty princess (and NOT a whore, ( Read more... )

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Rest in peace, Robbie. I don't know where you are now, but I do know that you've got a whole bunch of people who miss you dreadfully here.

Two words: Absinthe Fountain.

For realz, yo.

I think shogunhb fell in love with K J Barron's. For one thing, they have a Monday night scotch tasting. For another, they have an absinthe fountain.

We walked the full four hours. I'm pretty exhausted. Looking forward to going home after this post. My calves hurt. Go to hang out with invader_haywire and gunthersdncemix, and briefly ( Read more... )

It is with great sadness that the Rainbow Center shares the news of last week's death of Hans Turley, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs ( Read more... )

I have never cried so hard in a game in my entire life.Mind you, I cry at books, TV shows, and movies (and in a few memorable instances, commercials), so crying over imaginary people isn't uncommon for me, but ( Read more... )

So, remember when I posted about my professor who died? Well, a friend of mine emailed me a link to an article in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette today. I had been under the assumption that he'd died of a brain hemorrhage, said theory had been supported by the email sent out by the Chair of the English Department,

Sometime in the past few ( Read more... )