happy pi(e) day, o my flist. (i celebrated with a mini blueberry pie from the grocery store.) and my fellow americans, welcome to daylight savings ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
lord john and the private matter, in which the case ended in a way i didn't see coming (mostly because i'm not sure how much set-up there was), but lord john continued to be charming and occasionally justifiably pissed off (in a very genteel upper-crust kind of way) and the story continued to have a subtle sense of ( Read more... )

I GOT SNOWED ON THIS MORNING AND IT WAS GLORIOUS. it turned to rain and then it stopped precipitating altogether, but still, for a brief moment i got snowed on. it can now be winter. :D ( Read more... )

i didn't actually make it to the grocery store, the liquor store, and my parents' house in an hour, but it was close enough. i don't think i've ever blown through the grocery store in such a short period of time. didn't make it to the liquor store, tho. the hanukah party was as always marked by a lot of people, loud kids, and a lot of food. one ( Read more... )

i am now considering doing the 100 things challenge with 100 buildings. maybe. "buildings" was apiphile's suggestion, so if i do sign up i'm going to blame her.

discovery's last flight - the space shuttle on its way to its final resting place at the air and space museum udvar-hazy center (which is is virginia, not dc like the original air and space ( Read more... )

a small cup. three links.

mc escher reproduced in lego - not the artist, but the art. legos are very versatile that way.

tiny people, big world - also art, this time wee painted figurines (and i do mean wee) posed and photographed with random city street bits and pieces.

the scariest audio EVER, as recorded by someone hiding in a walk-in ( Read more... )