happy st patrick's day and a happy purim! my roommate made green hamentaschen last night to cover all her bases. (the dough looked kind of spinachy before she baked them, and then it looked kind of pistachio-y. tasted like hamentaschen dough, tho. kind of like shortbready sugar cookies, except not as sweet. and now we're out of baking powder ( Read more... )

today on my walk i saw:

a triple-decker flying a large french flag
a jeep with a tire cover over the spare that said "you are amazing"
the requisite cute dogs

and yesterday i saw ( garden rocks: )

happy birthday halfshellvenus! ficcer and lover of the penguin. /('v')\ this calls for cake ( Read more... )

a couple things i forgot from saturday:

a. on the way to the t station i passed a house with a bunch of books sitting outside on the little retaining wall that holds the front yard back from the sidewalk - all novels, all free. so i took neal stephenson's quicksilver, which is MASSIVE, and on the way home since they were still there, i took ( Read more... )

the building i work in is changing the elevators. instead of the standard up/down call buttons, there's a touch screen with pictures of elevator buttons, and you touch the button of the floor you want and wait for the elevator to show up. it takes you to your floor. the ptb have taken out the inside buttons in one of the elevators, so you're ( Read more... )

thank you for the birthday wishes! i got a bunch on facebook, which always baffles me because i never spend any time on facebook. i also learned that the receptionist at work is a month younger than me. she looks younger than that ( Read more... )

spn-j2-bigbang posting season is upon us! yay! i should perhaps get back to editing mine. ahem.

( izombie finale! )

today i met my sister for brunch and then we went over to our parents' house because my dad has started going through his books and he wanted to know if my sister or i wanted any. we did. i acquired a book about pirates. :D and a random assortment of history books and, uh, a book about cars (cord and auburn). and east of eden. they're in a ( Read more... )

has anyone out there read the lies of locke lamora? because i have a question. ( here! )

agent carter tonight was as expected full of squee and joy and random exterior shots of the chrysler building.

( also, you know, peggy :D )