i discovered a norwegian show on netflix called ragnarok, in which two brothers and their mom move back to the little town they're from, and the older brother turns out to be the reincarnation of thor? or something? and the powerful wealthy family is made up of jotuns. (none of this is a spoiler. i promise.) and then shit gets weird. s2 ends ( Read more... )

the trackpad on my laptop isn't working - it tracks, it just doesn't click, so i can move the cursor around but i can't open anything. so that's fun. it's only about nine months old. there may be a visit to a genius bar in my future, yay. (i'm on the work laptop ( Read more... )

so it's busy season at work, right? yesterday was NUTS, partly because i spent almost half the day processing a MASSIVE tax return. i mean, seriously, it was absurd. one client, three entities, so kind of like three separate jobs. one of the federal returns was 661 pages. that's more than a ream of paper. the corresponding new york return was ( Read more... )

tonight is town fireworks night (it was supposed to be last week but it was canceled on account of rain) and right now the band is playing literally across the street from my house. the band is called booty vortex. they're cheesy as hell - a lot of 70s disco - but some of the audience is dancing, so. there might be a local military band later, ( Read more... )

so who got to see the eclipse? how much did you get to see? boston only got 63% coverage, but it was during my lunch hour. :D so i sat outside and, uh, occasionally looked directly at the sun. >.< i did also watch the eclipse as reflected off my phone screen. on the one hand, super cool. but on the other, it didn't even get dark. the eclipse ( Read more... )

flist! flist! i got my laptop back and it works! omgyay! it's so nice to be on a non-obsolete laptop again ( Read more... )

on friday i slept through my alarm (AGAIN) but only woke up half an hour late. i made my lunch really fast and wasn't even late for work. woot. it was a very slow day, tho.

on thursday all my stuff that was in my parents' house was delivered to my house. now i just need more furniture to unpack the boxes into. >.< all the plastic storage bins ( Read more... )