happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. admin s from the libraries sent me a valentine's day card on slack that said "you make my heart implode" with some cute hearts on it and a picture of the titan submersible that flattened like a tin can under an 18-wheeler last year. i responded with OMG and then "that's horrible and i love it". (one of the ( Read more... )

happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. :D i celebrated with a bingo lunch for the admins at work (we ate pizza and talked smack, as you do, and one of the admins brought her very fluffy and very cute pomeranian, who i swear is like 90% hair and just looked so happy to be there) (do poms have resting happy face or was he a particularly delighted ( Read more... )

the department meeting i went to on friday started with a craft activity - one of the women (she's not a librarian or an archivist but i don't remember her title) brought colored paper and paper doilies and markers and colored pencils from home, and the department head got fancy scissors and glue sticks and more markers from the conservation lab, ( Read more... )

have a love poem for valentine's day. :D ( Read more... )

happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. tomorrow all that chocolate goes on sale. :D and happy birthdays to zasu (on time!) and amnisias (slightly belated)! cake and dancing boys for all ( Read more... )

the good:

a comcast guy came and fixed my internet!

the bad:

the pipes in my bathroom are frozen so i can't take a shower!

the ugly:

i might have to wash my hair in the kitchen sink!

the preparatory:

i have been to the grocery store and back so i don't have to do it tomorrow, my sister watered my mom's plants and iced accidentally watered ( Read more... )

so yesterday it snowed. it started some time in the afternoon and went on all day and what felt like all night and yet when i went outside today to shovel out my car, it wasn't that bad. also, the sun was out and it wasn't too cold. and if you have to shovel, the least mother nature can do is give you some sun in which to do it ( Read more... )

happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist! there might be love for you here! (i got anonymous love! and i want to know from whom! which i know is not the point, but still! i want to know who said lovely things about me so i can be grateful to their face ( Read more... )

because it took me so long to answer the questions for the writing meme, i figured i'd put them all in one post. (also i could contemplate my answers at work when i had nothing else to do. :D )

poisontaster asked about ( #10, what are my strengths in writing: )

stolen from basically everyone:

Put a number in the comments and I’ll answer accordingly. The mission for those of us who answer the questions, should we accept it, is to stay positive about our writing and ourselves, but to also be fair about our shortcomings.1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud ( Read more... )