what happened tuesday (last week) was that one of my department heads is retiring next month. O.O surprise? and then on wednesday the power went out at work! all over the block! you could tell everything was down (altho we had wifi) because everyone was standing around chatting. some guy was on his way to a meeting and got stuck in the ( Read more... )

on my way to the coffeeshop today i passed a car with a sticker on the side that said "i'd wrap that in bacon". made much more sense to me than last week's "keep calm and chive on". i mean, bacon ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw knives out over the weekend and i liked it a lot. it's a lot of awful people behaving badly, plus james bond daniel craig and a stunningly gorgeous house. seriously, it's amazing. oh, and also there's chris evans playing an asshole in a very cozy-looking sweater ( Read more... )

happy chinese new year, my lovelies! i only know it's today because a. the googledoodle is an animated banner with a super cute pig, and b. one of the tax associates brought in a large and random assortment of chinese sweets. also pocky, which i always associate more with japan. said sweets included ginger candy, candied ginger, coconut gummies ( Read more... )

wednesday night tamalinn called and said she was on her way home from work, she'd had a day, did i want to meet her for nachos and beer? i did, yes. (well, nachos anyway.) so i put on my shoes, put on my coat, get in my car, and... drive over a nail. >.< a big one. which is still buried in my tire, no doubt plugging up a big hole. my tires aren't ( Read more... )

OH MY FLIST I BOUGHT A PARKA FROM LL BEAN ON TUESDAY AND IT CAME TODAY AND IT'S PURPLE AND IT WILL KEEP ME WARM. *gets a grip* it's very exciting. i need a new crappy-weather winter coat for when it snows and is butt-fucking cold out. (those two things do not happen at the same time.) and i needed a coat to come by today because tomorrow i'm ( Read more... )

vikings is back! it's still weird to be watching it without ragnar ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
passage, which was at least 100 pages too long and could've used a tougher editor, and which suffers from a. a lot of characters with names, and b. a lot of those characters being pretty flat, and also one of the main characters jumps to conclusions A LOT about A LOT of things, but overall i liked it. the stuff with ( Read more... )

today i:

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i have returned from the wars! if by "wars" you mean "wrenlet's house". spoiler: there were no wars. :D i took a shower and now i have chinese food and vikings ( (comment) )