o my flist it's been like a million years. i'm fine, just... full of slack. since i was last here we've been through ( Read more... )

pretend it's yesterday. >.<

What I just finished reading:
sorcery and cecelia which was quite a fun ride. the epistolary part didn't bother me and the regency setting just made me picture all the ladies in empire waist dresses and all the men in tight pants. (not that i have any idea what men wore in regency england but in my head it was tight ( Read more... )

the little tomato plant is producing ( tiny tomatoes! )

so a year ago today the who officially declared covid-19 a pandemic. it was quite a day. and a year ago tomorrow was my last day on campus before they sent everyone home for good. i mostly remember the t being much emptier than it should have been during rush hour. it was kind of disconcerting. and i went back a week later to get some stuff ( Read more... )

happy day after inauguration day, my fellow americans! i didn't watch any of it altho today i found a video of the youth poet laureate, amanda gorman. she was great. i'm excited for the new administration, mostly because i'm excited and relieved to have an adult in charge again.

officially signed up for spn-j2-bigbang, should probably get with the drafting ( Read more... )

in 1984 a bunch of west german teenagers on a school trip to east germany smuggled an east german back with them. this was, shall we say, controversial. but impressive. the kids were apparently surveilled pretty heavily when they were in the gdr, but somehow the stasi (the secret police) missed the two girls plotting to smuggle an east german ( Read more... )

today is administrative professionals day, so the admins in my department all got gift cards for amazon. which we got by email. which i thought was spam at first. >.< i think i'm going to get a yoga mat with mine, because i hate using the rug in my living room. does anyone have recs for yoga mats ( Read more... )

...not on the same day, tho. you know how my car wouldn't start and needed a jump on saturday? well, it died for good on sunday. in the middle lane. a couple cars back from a red light. >.< when you call aaa the first or second thing they ask is if you're in a safe place, and because i was in the middle lane and everyone had to go around me ( ( Read more... )

may the fourth be with you!

flights to hoth may be delayed due to snow on the runway, and the flight to the death star might be a trap. (go heathrow. :D )

yesterday i woke up to discover my power was out. >.< since i didn't know how long it had been out i was afraid to open the fridge, so i skipped breakfast and didn't make lunch. fortunately ( Read more... )

so i did my civic duty and voted in the mass primary. there were not a lot of people there, and i have to say i wasn't surprised. i'm pretty sure clinton is going to take massachusetts, but the last time i looked it was really close, so we'll see ( Read more... )