i swear something happened today that was worth sharing but i have no idea what it was. i'm watching the olympics right now - men's halfpipe - and shaun white just fell on his last run. :( he's thirty-five and it's his fifth olympics and one of his competitors was ten months old for the first. that's amazing. i really wanted him to get a medal ( Read more... )

my car is in the shop until sometime next week, so today i walked to the grocery store again, and because it was 89º and profoundly sunny when i left the house i brought... an umbrella. :D so i could bring the shade with me. on the way i met a very pretty golden retriever and his person, because he'd stopped so he could eat grass from someone's ( Read more... )

the department meeting i went to on friday started with a craft activity - one of the women (she's not a librarian or an archivist but i don't remember her title) brought colored paper and paper doilies and markers and colored pencils from home, and the department head got fancy scissors and glue sticks and more markers from the conservation lab, ( Read more... )

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

forty years ago today nasa launched voyager 1 on a mission to explore saturn and jupiter. voyager 2 had already been launched on august 20. they're both still out there, exploring space and sending information home. you can even track them. the cool thing - aside from the fact that the voyagers are forty years old and still flying through space ( Read more... )