my sister likes to joke about how well they feed us at work and i always want to respond that i'm not the one whose employer put a bottle of tito's vodka in the cafe fridge next to the yogurt and string cheese and snack packs of hummus and bottles of juice and, uh, beer. (seriously. she shared a pic of the work fridge and i went "is that a bottle ( Read more... )

today a lot of snow melted and i got a haircut and i signed up for spn-j2-bigbang and my writing group gave me a lot of ideas for my tristan and isolde retelling, and one of those ideas is "there was only one bed!" :D and i thought of all the fangirls i know ( Read more... )

in the last omg three weeks i:

• went to cousin j's (not the thanksgiving j) to have brunch with hi, his lovely wife m, their twins, and cousin a and her hubs. this involved among other things me, my sister, m, and the boytwin having a lively discussion of lotr that apparently ended in m and the boytwin inviting me and my sister over to watch an ( 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... )

first, happy late birthdays to colls and azewewish. fabulous fellow fangirls. :D better late than never, right ( Read more... )

today was marked by lots of slack and tumbling, because apparently tumblr is where i live now. >.< class registration at work starts next week (i think) which means... i might get to meet - well, "meet" - undergrads. O.O. at least the advisees of some of my pi's. could be fun! could be a lot of them asking me questions i can't answer! who knows ( Read more... )

last night i dreamed i went to bed at five (in the morning) and woke up at seven (in the morning). i did not in reality do that, but i still woke up feeling like i'd only gotten two hours of sleep. >.< seriously, self ( Read more... )

today i met my sister in the city for brunch, and there was a parade! it was for a puerto rican festival. ( surprise! )

i'm watching the avengers and they edited loki's "mewling quim" line. now he calls natasha a "mewling child". i didn't realize "quim" was necessarily a word that needed to be edited out. whatever. i can still enjoy the chrises. :D ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the news of the world, which i thoroughly enjoyed even tho the lack of quotation marks was a little disconcerting. it had a very strong sense of time and place, and i'm just fascinated by indian captives in general.

What I am reading now:
murder on the leviathan by boris akunin, which i found on the sidewalk in ( Read more... )