a. ( this day in history: a livejournal meme )

it looks like a delayed reaction, but i finally watched cousin m.'s tape of last week's atlantis.

( 208: conversion )

in which i ramble on and on and ON about stargate: atlantis, conveniently cut-tagged and labeled for your skimming and skipping pleasure!

( atlantis: so much less bad than we'd expected! )

whoever was on espn yesterday at around four-thirty p.m. talking about sunday's federer-agassi final were idiots who i'm pretty sure never even saw the match. that's the only reason i can come up with for mocking andre agassi for moving like an old man and needing a nap in the middle of the second set, because if they'd actually seen him play they ( Read more... )

okay, the revolving boarding house is almost closed for business this season: my sister and her two boys left last monday after a lovely visit, and my uncle and his son who came in last friday are leaving early tomorrow morning. in summation, we all had a lovely time and ate too much. oy ( Read more... )

i know i'm late to the season one sg:a party, and i know "home" has been done to death, but it's new to me, so.

( 109: home )

birthday dinner for my mum went off very well last sunday, though the cake didn't so much. that, however, was through no fault of my own, but the fault of the oven (it did the exact same thing the last time my mother tried it a few months ago), and we've determined that my mother hasn't been doing nearly enough baking recently to establish the ( Read more... )

Gentle people of the internets, in my hot little hands I hold DISKS containing compressed avi files of STARGATE: ATLANTIS courtesy of ciderpress who is clearly the best of us and a giant among both men and women. Thank you so, so much for the gift of John! and Rodney! and the pens, which are marvy! Can I call them marvy? I think I will, at least until the ( Read more... )

Parents and I saw Charlie and Chocolate Factory on . . . huh. Um, Sunday? Maybe? ( reactions, mostly negative )

My HBP thoughts finally got written up over here. I don't know if I said much, but I sure did talk a lot.

Other things I have done in the past two weeks:

S. and I studied together three (3) separate times for the GRE. It's utterly demoralizing to be set the task of doing middle-school mathematics problems and not be able to do them, since I haven ( Read more... )