... in that I occasionally am obligated to mention that I'm not dead. (If I don't see people around, I tend to forget that they exist and have lives of their own. It frustrates my more social-minded relatives to no end.)

I'm still alive. College has started up again, leaving me busy and tired.

I have a tumblr now. I'm still sort of figuring out ( Read more... )

I had two unsettling encounters with our campus squirrels today.

The first was right after class. A gray squirrel was walking slowly near a line of shrubbery.

I'm struggling for a way to say this that won't sound completely mad, but it was moving wrong. Most of the time, squirrels are like springs. They push foward with their back legs in order to ( Read more... )

I've noticed that it is customary to alert one's friends-list when one will be away from the internet for some time.

I am visiting relatives for several weeks, starting the morning of the third. I should have access again by August 26th (or possibly the 19th). However, in that time, it is very unlikely I will be posting here or commenting. (In other ( Read more... )

Since I haven't posted anything in a while...

I'm watching my little sister this week, since Mom and Dad are both gone. This seems like a good time to point out that I don't like children and never have. My reaction to babies is "Oh. Hi, wrinkled, funny-smelling thing. please don't ask me to hold it please don't ask me to hold it..." So this week's ( Read more... )

So, at almost the very same second as I clicked "Post Entry" on part 1, I heard a small explosion from the kitchen. One of the pop cans that I had been using to weigh down the cloth had exploded.

( I knew I was going to screw up SOMETHING. Now I can rest at ease, as my worst idiocy has (hopefully) passed. )

All summer, I've been planning to make some garb. Right now, I'm considering making a tunic or surcoat of some type.

( Images and such behind the cut. )

A friend recently pointed out that a lot of the stuff I've been gleefully figuring out for DnD (like how the need for grain and lack of farmable soil for that one mountainous village can effect local economics and politics) is related to something called logistics.

I checked. One of the local colleges has a minor in it. Another has a major in ( Read more... )

Well, I've been home for about five days. In that time I have

1. Cleaned my room. This is far more impressive than it sounds. I don't think that room has been cleaned since sometime when I was in high school, and now I can actually see my floor. (I have a blue carpet! Isn't that marvelous?)

2. Seen Avengers. I liked it. The action parts were ( Read more... )