Bleh, grading break ( Read more... )

Sorry, my friends! I keep meaning to, but I want to include pictures of Feast Day items, and that requires time at home with a camera. Which I have so far not been so good at grabbing ( Read more... )

The Kitten keeps telling me that if she didn't talk to me online, she'd think I was "dead" by how little I post here. So I'm postin', Kitten. See? Still alive ( Read more... )

Man, it's not even the end of the semester and I'm pulling an all-nighter ( Read more... )

Three--okay, 2 and a half--loads of laundry done. I keep experimenting with BPAL in the dryer; tonight, I learned that ~a third of a bottle of Hungry Ghost Moon goes a looooong way, while Perilous Parlor scents close and light, and Dia de Los Muertos (yeah, I used all three) seems to burn off pretty quick. I really should dig out a very piney ( Read more... )

I turned off LoudTwitter for a bit, 'cause while I like to archive my Tweets--they're awesome for checking to see what I did on a particular day--I also would like to give some respite from my Twittering mania. I just hit 2000 of the damn things...and I've been doing it since November. I don't think that's even six months at this point. True, I ( Read more... )

Up to midnight, even! Put my car in the Structure on that very premise ( Read more... )

Awhile ago, B--during a discussion of a mutual friend and his love life--said something really cool.*

She said, "Sometimes it's more important to be friends."

It took me a long time to come around to understanding that with the friend in question.

But I got a beautiful understanding of that tonight.

And I feel all the better for it, too.
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Every semester, I find that one thing that I can use to procrastinate ( Read more... )

There's this sense that today I am dancing a dance in which we all move slowly passed each other, and there is no looking, and especially no touching. But I just keep wanting to jump out of my spot and talk, and touch, because even though we have all danced this dance before, it doesn't feel right today. Something just seems wrong. But stepping ( Read more... )