Well, I hope all is well with you guys.  I'm in the midst of a massive cleaning spree, and I've been working on getting rid of lots of old papers and notebooks.  And as I've been going through all these notebooks, I've found a ton of old doodles and such.  And since I'm not really capable of getting rid of old notebooks, I thought maybe I'd scan ( Read more... )

Although it's certainly not for lack of trying on my body's part. Eurgh. I loathe fevers. I'm by turns too hot or cold, and everything aches, my eyes are all puffy, and now-- for added fun!-- I can't manage to keep anything down. Joy ( Read more... )

As Saturday was that greatest of days, Game Day, I rolled out of bed at nine, donned my red and black, and headed over to the nearest MARTA station to take the train into Atlanta.1 Now, I took MARTA in part because I try to be eco-conscious when I can, and because gas is too damn expensive-- but I also took MARTA because I knew driving in Atlanta ( Read more... )

1. Yay, Michael Phelps! I have to say, I've greatly enjoyed watching Phelps swim this past week-- even if it meant enduring the endless lovesick odes to his greatness that NBC's been shoving down our throats.

2. Dear NBC: we get it. Michael Phelps is magic, and you have a ginormous crush on the kid with huge ears and the absolutely ( Read more... )

1. Thank you to the lovely people who commented on my last entry; you're all wonderful and I'm sorry I didn't respond individually. Things haven't changed much since that last post, actually-- Grandma's still non-responsive (this is somehow different from a coma, but hell if I know why), and we've taken her off the ventilator. She's in hospice ( Read more... )

1. So a couple of months ago I got shanghai'd by my mother into working at the day camp she runs every summer-- I'm leading a group of rising sixth grade girls, so you know. Giggly and finicky and prone to tears of exhaustion, rage, joy, etc., with with widely differing levels of maturity on an individual basis and generally abyssmal taste in ( Read more... )