i have successfully survived a week without coworker d at work! go me. nothing went missing, i didn't print anything on the wrong letterhead, i knew what i was doing (mostly), i didn't get totally swamped. altho! the color copy machine near my desk went down TWICE, necessitating a lot of bitching, moaning, whining, complaining, and running up ( Read more... )

last sunday i went to the car show with the family unit, because why not, and because i'm me i took a bunch of pictures.

( let us look at cars, shall we? )

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i love my sister but man, i have shit do to that requires leaving the house, and spending two hours on the phone listening to her talk about her job (mostly) and her friends (partly) is not what i had in mind. and then she asked me about my job search and i said well, actually, i kind of want to get off the phone so i can eat lunch and get dressed ( Read more... )

happy birthdays to ciaan (who does not live near me) and farwing (who does)! here's to art and cake. :D ( Read more... )

einstein wearing fuzzy slippers - everyone needs a cuddly genius every once in a while, right?

captain america powerpuff plushie - powerplush! because in addition to cuddly geniuses, everyone could also use on occasion a cuddly superhero. also, he is SO FUCKING CUTE I CANNOT COPE.

wincon is in two months and i kind of want to do a panel but have no ( Read more... )

i had this exchange with my boss today ( Read more... )

flist! those of you who have smartphones, can you get online radio stations on them? like, if your favorite station streams online, will your phone pick it up. do you need an app for that? (rich the coworker listens to some radio station from los angeles on his computer when he's here. like that, but on a phone.) can you talk/text/whatever at ( Read more... )

after five years i finally own curling shoes, and they now have the dubious distinction of being the most expensive shoes i own. more than my fluevogs, even. (i think they charge you extra if you're left-handed. well, left-footed, i guess. because of the way the shoes are made - you have a slick sole on the bottom of one shoe, so you can slide ( Read more... )

last night at curling, one of the guys on the other team was substituting for his mom, and he was a. young, b. cute, and c. TOTALLY unused to curling. like, it was his first time on the ice. ever. he didn't do too badly, considering, altho he did fall over once. also his hair was just long enough that it could barely fit into a ponytail, and it ( Read more... )