I'd say I'm currently reading Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, but I am rapidly approaching the past tense of that statement. It's a quick read type of situational memoir and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Little House books. I'm still not sure that my level of ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how committed to writing about the following in a public forum I'll stay, but I figure I'll keep going until I don't feel like it anymore. Yesterday I found out law school peep and semi-frequent commenter on this lj mathwhiz78 was found dead at his house in Minneapolis. It has not been made known to me what the cause of death was, however in ( Read more... )

A lot of people I know have been trying to do a "Thing I'm Thankful For" every day this month. It's a good exercise and I really should do this every day, Thanksgiving notwithstanding. But clearly I can't be relied on to do that, at least, not in a written public way. So I'll try to make up for the last month...also going to try to restrict ( Read more... )

"One of the things I think we witness when we go to the parks is the immensity and the intimacy of time. On the one hand we experience the immensity of time which is the creation itself; it is the universe unfolding before us. And yet it is also time shared with the people that we visit these places with. So it's the experience we remember when ( Read more... )

- The dudes (the absolute best descriptor of them) who live downstairs occasionally blast their music. Usually it's some brand of Crap Metal, but today was different. Spot and I were chilling on the couch and for once, I could hear actual words and lyrics, and they sounded vaguely familiar. I sat listening, trying to place the band. It took me ( Read more... )

The past couple of days have been full of awesome reconnecting, albeit of the brief variety. I got to talk to ladyofshadow on the phone on Friday, and got to see margotanne at brunch today. Actually, brunch was very well attended (no doubt because of a Margot Sighting), with a final headcount of seven. Good times all around.

Got to see Inglourious Basterds last ( Read more... )

I was actually pretty domestic today - cleaning, making dinner for me and for Steve to heat up later. Oh the wonders I can accomplish when not employed. Though the money quote is from Steve about me cleaning up the area around his closet: "Where's all my stuff? And no, I don't know what was there, but I know there was stuff there ( Read more... )

Blargh, I know I haven't updated in a while (again)...see? The horsies go away again and I don't update regularly. But school's starting to head down to the final stretch of the semester and therefore taking up even more time. The note's done, but I had to do a critique of someone else's note today, and I have another one due next week, so the ( Read more... )

Went to the Social Security office today to change my name on my SS account, which was like the seventh circle of hell (with Walmart being the eighth, and the DMV being the ninth). You know it's bad when the confused old people are the least annoying. Most annoying being all of the couples who apparently felt that they had to go do this mundane ( Read more... )

Ugh. I don't dislike work, I just need a break. Unfortunately, my break is still over two weeks away. *sigh ( Read more... )