i spent some quality time today procrastinating, so it was kind of business as usual around here. and i started thinking about my nanonovel, which was productive but not in a professional kind of way ( Read more... )

so it started snowing today around noon (give or take) and stopped about nine (i think). i got to leave work an hour early and it only took half an hour longer than usual to get home. the bus wasn't that late - impressive - but there was a lot of traffic and snow and general mess. but there was also so much lovely fluffy snow in front of my ( Read more... )

same-sex marriage is now officially official in new york! marriage license offices are now open for same-sex couples! folks got married at midnight in niagara, with the falls all lit up in rainbow colors! i am full of squee and hope. :D and also, this article made me tear up.

and also? this photo. *hearts* ("nachas" i think is like "good ( Read more... )

a happy fourth of july to the americans in the audience! i hope you get fireworks if that's your thing, and that you can avoid them if it's not. :D

yesterday my parents and i went to gloucester (about forty minutes north of boston, and possibly familiar if any of you read the perfect storm or saw the movie, and also home to gorton's of frozen ( Read more... )

on this date in 1963, valentina tereshkova became the first woman launched into space. she was twenty-six, and she was up there almost three days. i make victory arms in her honor. \o/

5 beekman street has a secret - and that secret is fabulous. also architecturally nifty. (well, come on, it's me. if it wasn't architecturally nifty i wouldn' ( Read more... )

saw iron man 2 with my sister on saturday. (she'd never seen the first one, but i don't think she was too confused.) i think it was better the first time. but hey, a couple hours watching rdj is never a bad thing. also on saturday i went to ikea, and now i want to redecorate. i need to start playing the lottery ( Read more... )

don't panic & carry a towel. :D (mine is at home. i feel unprepared.)

periodic table of empire strikes back elements - chemically nerdy! or nerdily chemical! also, nifty. (via gweneiriol)

repurposed houses - by which i mean non-house spaces turned into house spaces. there's a church (complete with graveyard!), a bunch of shipping containers, a cave, ( Read more... )

converted churches - mostly converted into houses, but there's one that was converted into a bookstore. NIFTY. i would actually really like living in a converted church. it's the ceilings. :D i mean, check this out - is that not gorgeous? (i wouldn't have put a bed at the end of the dining room, but otherwise. i'm curious to see a floor plan ( Read more... )

for the "ask me about my top five [whatevers]" meme (you can still ask me about something if you're so inclined), othercat asked about my top five fandoms. and then i wondered if i've even been involved in five fandoms.... ( so, in roughly chronological order: )

today i bring you links of random with nifty pictures and the odd moment of wtf-ery. :D

coats for guinea pigs - for the stylish guinea pig in your life. apparently you can get them on ebay. altho it sounds more like an etsy thing to me....

britain's secret underground city - it's basically a ginormous cold war era bunker. hooooge. never used ( Read more... )