Space has been the running theme of Summer 2012. Within the first week of being back home I found myself at Astronomy in the Park, braving mosquitoes for the chance to check out craters on the moon. I missed the solar eclipse and the Transit of Venus courtesy of Ohio being too far east, but the chatty astronomers livestreaming events via SLOOH ( Read more... )

Hello. Asexuality exists.

It's been kind of a crappy week for aces in media. Between Moffat's poorly-thought-out comments regarding Sherlock via Twitter, the House brain-tumor-or-lies debacle, and now Tim Gunn catching all kinds of flak for being celibate (which is not the same thing as asexuality but gets many of the same unexpectedly nasty ( Read more... )

Putting this up a few days early: I'm flying to Charlotte tomorrow for a week-long fiesta with friends I haven’t seen in ages. So, without further ado:
( 0h, 2010. )

So, I now have a job at the local vet clinic. Granted, it'll be a lot of poo-scooping and kennel help and answering phone calls at the front desk, but I'm totally down with that. I like science! I like animals! I like solving problems! This is all good. (And it's infinitely preferable to my former life of selling flat-screen TVs, which I really ( Read more... )

My final week in North Cackalacky has been one of the best of my life. I have so many things to do write-ups on -- all-nighters where we watched the sun come up from the park, star parties, tea parties, photo shoots, spontaneous excursions with old friends, random and hilarious inside-joke gifts, all that jazz -- but it'll have to wait about a week ( Read more... )