What I just finished reading:
brunelleschi's dome which i enjoyed because a. architecture! b. renaissance engineering! and c. it's just very entertainingly written. but i really wanted some modern diagrams because a lot of the descriptions of how the dome was built were hard to visualize.

What I am reading now:
alif the unseen by g willow wilson ( Read more... )

...i just had the worst craving for chinese food. what the hell ( Read more... )

last saturday i went to my sister's so we could watch dune pt 1 in preparation for going to see dune pt 2 tomorrow. it looked fabulous - also, oscar isaac - it wasn't quite as weird as i was expecting, and i could completely follow what was going on. (a million years ago when the david lynch version came out my friend amy told me if i hadn't read ( Read more... )

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... )

i think i've recovered from my weekend of constant family and am ready to be among people again. which is a good thing because my roommate talks A LOT. like, dumb stuff - something she saw on twitter or instagram, tv ads (for some reason her response is always "i'm so confused"), birds, whatever. it's kind of a trial to live with if you're ( Read more... )

oh my flist it is so cold out. it is also sunny which is a problem because i want to be out in it and it's like 12ºf. last night my cousin adjacent's [1] youngest kid who's a senior in high school was in his last high school play - they did 9 to 5 and it was very well done - so i went and when i was driving home my phone said it was 6º and my car ( Read more... )

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happy solstice, all! from now on the days get longer. :D (or shorter if you're in the southern hemisphere. sorry about that ( Read more... )

(typed this up last night and then lj was having issues and wouldn't post. so pretend it's last night.)

yesterday was national doughnut day on the us, and i went out during lunch and got two from dunkin' donuts. and they were just what i wanted.

also happy late birthday to amberdreams, artist, fangirl, generally nifty person. my bigbang artist sent me ( Read more... )

pretend it's yesterday.

What I just finished reading:
spirit machine, which i overall enjoyed. (i skipped a story but it just wasn't clicking for me and i didn't have the patience to force myself to read it.) it was split in two parts - steampunk seances and scifi seances - and while a lot of things repeated from story to story, there was enough ( Read more... )