Well, I spent a bunch of time with my mom - she goes back to California tomorrow morning. A lot of what we ended up doing was boring, including watching my dad race his go-cart (four hours of my life I won't get back), but at least he won, I guess. Also it turns out that the Milwaukee Zoo closes at 4:30 on a Saturday, so, um, well. We spent the ( Read more... )

So I was thinking about that prison that Magneto is in during the second X-Men movie, y'know, the no-metal one, and how utterly unrealistic it is to inject someone full of iron and expect them to not immediately die from heavy-metal poisoning, and I had to wonder, can Magneto manipulate ionized metal? I mean, it seems like it would have been so ( Read more... )

Whoo. It's been a busy few weeks, despite my relatively light credit load! I've barely been able to play videogames except for about an hour last weekend ( Read more... )

Went to the Gurnee Mills mall with my mom and her sister yesterday--my aunt's visiting for a week, normally she's in British Colombia--and I managed to procure some things, like a book called "Atlas of the Universe," colorful shoelaces for my hiking boots, clothes for Yellowstone, and a tiny four-dollar Wall•E. I tried to find a wired headset for ( Read more... )

I wasn't planning on going to the baby shower today--I didn't really know the people involved and it's not really an event I get excited about--but my mom guilt-tripped me into it, saying that she RSVP'd for me and all, while really isn't all that strong of an excuse given that I'd already told several people that I wasn't planning on going. There ( Read more... )

I went to bed last night at eight thirty. Eight thirty! Madness. But I had a headache, and once I laid down for that I realized I was sleepy, so one thing led to another ( Read more... )