a. so i have an old pc, a new ibook and an ipod that's formatted for windows. the faq at ipodlounge.com tells me i can reformat my ipod for mac fairly painlessly, but it'll erase all the files. the contents of my ipod is backed up on the pc, but the pc is in such bad shape that i can't try to burn a cd without it crashing, so i can't get my files ( Read more... )

a. ( one thousand four hundred and sixty-two words about the end of queer as folk )

so a couple weeks ago i took ficlet requests (which i still have not written, yes, i know, i'm sorry), and thelionforreal asked for something but also said i could feel free to ignore her request and write her a birthday story instead. i think she meant that i could ignore writing her a ficlet and not completely ignore in every way what she actually asked for, ( Read more... )

it is monday and i am ready to eat babies.

on a good night, it takes me about 90 minutes to fall asleep, but last night i was awake in bed for about six billion hours, possibly because i'd been in bed and on the phone for 30 minutes before trying to fall asleep and also because i didn't really do anything yesterday besides watch the mclaughlin ( Read more... )

a. contrary to vicious rumor, i didn't buy her an ipod, i borrowed it from an orphan and then she stole it from me while i was sleeping. that bitch. i'm totally calling unicef. *

b. some things that smartlikejustin is useful at that do not involve stealing from orphans: going to college with people who do up some kick-ass barbecue (omg we went to a party at her ( Read more... )

a. when i go to wordcount.org, it tells me that "shenanigans" is ranked 46,719th (between "hustling" and "franked") and "wretch" is ranked 36,320th (between "aplysia" and "tobias") out of 86,800 words. let's see what we can do about this, hmm?

b. peter_and_fran part 33: don't be an idiot. also known as "that part where that thing that you thought might ( Read more... )

springfield and i are both wearing mint green today (him, a mark jacobs pull-over that he excited told me he bought on ebay, me, some wretch cardigan that i'm wearing to conceal the tank top that i SO would not ever wear outside of the house except that i didn't do laundry this weekend) and no more than 10 people have pointed this out as though it ( Read more... )

so imogennegomi, dear roommate mine, has been unspoiled for QAF. and at the end of every episode leading up to this one, i had to resist the urge to be like "yes, but, only ____ more episodes until _______!!!1!!1!!" in order to sublimate this, i made up a fake spoiler that i talked about very emphatically at the end of every episode: "boy, i can't wait until ( Read more... )

( homosexual as people episode five oh nine -- okay, never mind, there are now things close enough to spoilers in the comments )

yesterday morning i woke up very early and after approx. 2.5 hours of sleep so i could drive katie to the bus station. as the weekend has progressed, i have begun to suspect more and more that i never actually woke up yesterday morning, as everything has seemed very pleasantly blurry and of indeterminate length ( Read more... )