My dad and his new wife's wedding reception was yesterday. The reception was at the art school where they met, in a part of the building that used to be a church. It's pretty strange- you walk through the art galleries, very brightly lit with plain white walls, then suddenly you're in a dimly lit stone room covered with religious murals and ( Read more... )

30 Day Meme
Day 14 → A non-fictional book

Last year I had a class on the Cold War and one of the assigned books was one the professor himself wrote, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev by Vladislok Zubok. And I thought that was pretty conceited, assigning your own book. I mean, it was cool to have a class ( Read more... )

30 Day Meme
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago


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30 Day Meme
Day 09 → A photo you took


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I had a fabulous day yesterday with doctor_anon at Philadelphia Comic-Com! Long entry ahead with lots of pictures.


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I did a lot of cooking this weekend, and since I remembered to document it with pictures this time I though I'd share some recipes.

First up was No-Knead Bread


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A meme, in which I talk about myself. Questions courtesy of sandoz_iscariot.

1. What's the origin of your username?

It's one I came up with when I was 14 or 15, a few years before I got a Livejournal, and used here and on the internet. I think my criteria when picking it was just animal name + girl and tortoisegirl happened to be available. Creative, I know ( Read more... )

Snowed in all day yesterday and today, so instead of being useful I decided to make cupcakes. I had a ton of leftover icing from making my mom's birthday cake last week and got a little carried away with the decorating.


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( It are snow! Also, a cat. )