watched white collar last night. neal still painfully pretty. ( a thing i liked and a thing that was kind of meh! )

coworker d was out today so the new admin sat at reception so i could sit at my own desk again. (yay!) and then i had to print and bind a shit-ton of reports. (nineteen copies, twenty-four copies, eighty-nine copies. EIGHTY-NINE. which may or may not sound like much, but they took about an hour just to print, and then it was time to go home ( Read more... )

so i survived my first day of "temporary" receptionist-ing, and it was BORING AS HELL. also, there's a flatscreen tv showing cnn, and all the news is either gaza or ebola, which is DEPRESSING AS HELL. thank god for tumblr and sebastian stan's pretty facei hate answering the phones. just for the record. we don't get a lot of calls but that doesn ( Read more... )

quickie pimp! findyourwords, for those of you who need a little accountability to help you write. because if you're like me - and i cannot possibly be the only person who does this - your ficcish output would be greatly helped by someone essentially standing over you going "so how much did you write this week?" it's kind of like getyourwordsout except the minimum year ( Read more... )

when keith met mick - an eighteen-year-old keith richards wrote a completely adorable letter to his aunt to tell her he'd met this guy named mick jagger.

bay bridge lightning strike - a photo of lighting hitting the bay bridge, taken from inside a building so as not to get the camera wet. electrically beautiful ( Read more... )

happy late birthdays to nickelmountain (fellow podficcer!) and beckaandzac (fellow fic-ficcer!)! consider this an on-time unbirthday. :D you still deserve cake ( 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... )

holy shit, japan. O.O if any of you guys have friends or family there or in hawaii (or anywhere in the pacific, actually), i hope they're ok. i've been resolutely not looking for pictures or video of the disaster, but this clip of swaying buildings in tokyo is actually kind of cool. (if kind of scary....) they sway so they don't fall down. ( Read more... )

all these windows open and still no breeze.

check out the love meme and maybe, y'know, leave someone a little love. also there's still a bunch of unclaimed wishes at insmallpackages.

british knitters knit chicken sweaters - that would be sweaters for rescue chickens. ~:> the poor things don't have wings, or have very patchy wings, on account of the way they' ( Read more... )

today is dr seuss' birthday. he'd be 106. would it be weird if i tried to dye my scrambled eggs green tonight, in celebration?

...i didn't think so. :D

apparently the olympic village ran out of condoms during the games and had to order more. *snicker* i guess 100k rubbers wasn't enough. (i wonder how many folks used hurry hard curling ( Read more... )