I keep a dream journal, just jotting down basic notes on some of them. The first one, a comically tiny notebook a friend brought me from Mexico (complete with luchador on the cover) is now full, thanks to the two dreams I jotted down this morning. The second one involved sitting around a crowded conference table, wearing big headphones, at some ( Read more... )

I have signed up for Weight Watchers. It was not entirely like this:

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...but it was a little bit like that. Still, I need some structure and support, so we'll see.

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Went to the 4 hour driver's ed class (after getting a ticket for rolling through a stop sign) and honestly, it wasn't nearly as bad as I had expected. The instructor was engaging, and people participated enough so that things didn't stagnate. The class was about evenly split between older ladies and younger kids (I was one of only a couple who ( Read more... )

So, my comic book dorkiness never actually encompassed the majority of the Avengers in their solo works, let alone their group books. As a little kid, I read Batman, Superman, and Spiderman almost exclusively (with a smattering of Scrooge McDuck and other Disney comics), and mostly those were comics picked up on my family's many cross-country ( Read more... )

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New Tim Powers book due out in March of 2012 - and it looks like it's a not-quite-sequel-but-linked story to The Stress of Her Regard. It's called Hide Me Among The Graves and I am massively psyched for it. I haven't been a big fan of his more recent books - the Einstein one didn't hook me, and the two books following Last Call were potent, but ( Read more... )

Gourmet Magazine seemed to thrive on ads for booze, boy howdy. So of course, you have to learn how to use all that good stuff...here are some drink recipes from a 1959 issue. Trader Vic's, ahoy!


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Actually, here's something more cheerful. A co-worker (and friend - she's the driving force behind the playreading group) snuck off and got married last week. Once we discovered this, we had this little tableau waiting for her in her office when she got back.


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Except it can't be fandom, because I'm only on the outskirts of it, so it is...the internet keeps you young? Or being immature and not having kids? Too much Tosh.2.0 and The Soup? Or something ( Read more... )