one of my mom's cousins is in town so my parents had a family (ie, cousins) lunch yesterday. i got to the house at 12:30 and left at 9:30. i was kind of peopled out, and there weren't even that many people there. my mom and her cousin - mostly the cousin - sortofkindof reminisced about various relatives, most of whom i never met, and the cousin ( Read more... )

i'm watching hannibal. i figure those are non-spoilery enough lines. :D hugh dancy is incredibly cute, but really i'm watching for mads mikkelsen. and i like it so far altho i keep trying to cross it with criminal minds. >.< it's the serial killers. i wish it wasn't on against elementary, tho ( Read more... )

i wish crosswalks in boston looked like this.... (technically the box on the streetlight with the button that you push to get the light to change - do those things have a name? - and not the crosswalk itself, but still. i giggled ( Read more... )

happy late birthdays to giogio, wrangler of cute greeks, and to anonymousblack, wrangler of words! i hope they were happy and your respective sweeties treated you well. and also that you got cake. :D ( Read more... )

i got a bunch of happy birthday wishes on facebook and now i feel like a bad facebooker for always forgetting i'm on there. >.< well, if you're on facebook and also reading lj, thank you. :D and if you left me birthday wishes on lj, thank you too. :D ( Read more... )

say you're an earnest girl (or an earnest boy :D ) in your early-mid 20s, and you're making a documentary of the local homeless population in order to understand a. how varied said population is, b. how they came to be homeless, and c. their concerns, challenges, and attempts to no longer be homeless, so you can better discuss d. how to prevent ( Read more... )

all the lovely snow from this morning has turned to rain. i don't know if this is an improvement or not. i still get to leave work early. at least i was smart and brought my umbrella to work with me. *flexes*

for no apparent reason, today's friendly hostility made me crave red velvet cupcakes in the worst way. clearly someone loves me because ( Read more... )

lego sculptures! nifty! there's some amazing lego architecture in that post. there's even a lego gherkin. (the building, not the pickle.) if you scroll down far enough you get a back-of-the-sanctuary view of amy hughes' fabulously cool abston church of christ. lego link from phinnia, who is likewise phabulous ( Read more... )

thing what is annoying: i work down the street and around the corner from the local high school. high schoolers travel in packs. they sidewalk-sweep. they're not rude, they're just... everywhere, and kind of obliviously so. i would be happier if there were fewer of them out and about, i'm just saying ( Read more... )

no dog sightings today. have a couple non-dog pics instead:

if dean winchester were a cat - food is involved. :D i mean, come on, it's dean.

long eared israeli hedge - the person who rescued him from a main street gave him food and water "for the road" (hee) before setting him loose in a safer place ( Read more... )