guess what season it is!

pumpkin spice season!ok, that too. but no ( Read more... )

boston's on a river, right? the charles. the road that runs along the charles on the boston side is called storrow drive. (on the other side, the cambridge side, is memorial drive.) the bridges go over storrow on their way across the river, and sometimes trucks going down the road are too tall and the bottom of the bridge will just peel the ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
false value, which i mostly liked. the first several chapters alternate time periods - january, december, january, december - something will happen or be alluded to in chapter x and then in chapter y (which takes place a month earlier) you find out what it is and how it happened. and after a while that gets old. and ( Read more... )

on friday when i wasn't home my roommate harvested and ate the pregnant cucumber WITHOUT ME. she said it was salty (???) possibly because it got so much sun and because it's been so hot out. and she ate it anyway. in a salad. MEDIOCRE. fortunately there are still cukes-in-training which will ideally grow into cukes-ready-to-eat which i will ( Read more... )

( cucumber update! )

a thing i keep forgetting to mention - a couple years ago i wrote a short and fluffy fill for a valentine's themed spn/rpf comment meme (fill here or here), and SOMEONE PODFICCED IT. :O no one's ever podficced any of my fics before. i was shall we say very excitedthis is neat - there's an indigenous group of people in nepal called the kusunda, ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the galaxy, and the ground within, which i mostly enjoyed for the worldbuilding and the alien food that still felt very familiar. (i mean that in a positive way.) because all the characters are non-humans who don't all know about each others' species, the book is maybe 30% characters talking to each other and doing ( Read more... )

it's wednesday, isn't it?

What I just finished reading:
lies sleeping, which i thoroughly enjoyed even if the plot seemed to get away from me (and possibly the author?) once or twice. i consistently love how ben aaronovitch writes about london and its history and mythology, and the occasional nerdy reference makes me giggle. like, peter has to ( Read more... )

happy (slightly late) birthday ghost-light! who remembers other people's birthdays on time.... :D

dancing boys: *line dance*

if you live in the blast furnace currently known as the uk - or various other parts of western europe that happen to be on fire, jesus - i hope you're staying cool and hydrated (and unburnt!) and are taking care of yourselves. i ( Read more... )

i needed to do my laundry all day and every time i went downstairs someone had beaten me to it. i finally got it in at like 7p. i probably shouldn't complain since a. the laundry's free, and b. it's in the basement, but i'm going to anyway. bitch, moan, whine, complain.

also i was woken up - five minutes before my alarm >.< - by the neighbor's ( Read more... )