What I just finished reading:
"lord john and the haunted soldier", in which the haunting is psychological and there aren't enough ghosts. i still gave it two thumbs up.

also jem and the holograms: dark jem, in which the story is kind of silly but the art is cute and occasionally kind of nuts.

What I am reading now:technically nothing, since i ( Read more... )

on saturday i went to the peabody essex museum with the parental unit and their neighbor, and when i finally get all the pictures off my phone i can share some of them. there was a rodin exhibit. so much fabulous sculpture. also a lot of random plaster maquettes, and sculptures made from cannibalized parts of other sculptures. apparently rodin ( Read more... )

apparently i share a birthday with jamie lee curtis, mark fluffalo ruffalo, and scarlett johansson. also marjane satrapi. i celebrated by having cake for breakfast. :D yesterday i went to the peabody essex museum in salem (which i loooove) to see the strandbeest exhibit, which was super interesting even tho the beests themselves look creepily ( Read more... )

yesterday i went to the peabody essex museum with the family unit to see an exhibit on japanese fashion from the 80s on. it was, er, interestingly organized along vaguely historical lines, starting with rei kawakubo and issey miyake and their early 80s colleagues with their nearly-shapeless voluminous monochrome clothes, and passing across the 90s ( Read more... )

last night i saw pacific rim again with drglam - on a slightly bigger screen - and it was just as good the second time. some of the dialogue was kind of silly, tho, and i stumbled over a random plot weirdness, but otherwise? just as excellent. drglam and i saw the 9:50 show which meant we caught the last t home and spent the entire ride discussing ( Read more... )

happy birthday to desertport (fangirl! and wrangler of schoolkids on a bus) and embroiderama (also fangirl! and wrangler of cats) and, er, my mom (who i wouldn't consider a fangirl in the conventional sense but who did used to watch the x-files with me back in the day). i hope your days are good! and that there is (was?) cake. :D ( Read more... )

i can't believe it's sunday. i had friday off and i have tomorrow off and that is just way too many days off in a row without a. me going anywhere, b. anyone coming to see me, or c. thanksgiving.

i got my bigbang back from my lovely beta and i'm afraid to look at her comments. >.< not that i'm so worried about what the comments actually are - i ( Read more... )

saturday i worked a full day, came home, changed my clothes, and went right back out again so my sister and i could take our parents out for their anniversary. (which was a month ago, but whatever.) we sat by the water in downtown boston and ate steak and it was good. and then sunday they all came to my house for mother's day brunch - it was a ( Read more... )