I miss fall.

Well, no. Let's be honest. I miss seasons. Brisbane is just outside of the real tropics (and it's further from the equator than the places I grew up in in south Texas! Ha!), and therefore has two settings. Sorta pleasantly warm in the day with holy crapola it's cold at night, to dear Lord in Heaven have mercy on us all.

First, let me ( Read more... )

Now I should have known that a steak house what calls itself "Outback" and cheeses out with the didgeridoo and the boomerangs and the broooaaaaaaaaad Australian accents singing about bringing mum and dad over for their respective festive days would have been a colossally bad idea as a choice for lunch today. But for whatever reason, reason deserted ( Read more... )

I did it, I went ahead and joined up NaNoWriMo as Incognitiously (pseudo-apologies to gryphonrose).
( So NOW what do I do? )

Being bored at work is bad. Obvious.

But being bored at work, whilst being able to access LJ, is another matter entirely.

( Blather, if you're interested. Blather in the non-pejorative sense. )

So. I have a hand-me-down iPod (note that "hand-me-down" is notperjorative, and is instead a factual descriptor and does not connote just how grateful I am to have received it). It has its quirks. One of them is not liking to communicate with my PC all that well. Yes, note I said PC. I know, I know.

( I feel like I've lost a hand. )

I'm posting only because someone nudged me to do so.

( Welcome to the whine. )

Screw you. (Except, of course, dissenting Justices Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and--unsurprisingly--Ginsburg).

So. That drudgery of a cough/cold that wouldn't let up is actually, officially, bronchitis ( Read more... )

--I don't know what to say. Apparently, US forces killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in IraqI try not to get into political stuff, I try not to. Even though pretty much everyone who knows me knows I disagree with most of the things being done in this administration. But I try to always keep in mind the working man--the regular Joe (or Jane) who's ( Read more... )

It may be irrational, but I don't care. I've been seeing this for quite a while now, but it's becoming more and more prevalent and I just...can't...take it anymore.

What is with women wearing black bras under white shirts? For the love of God do they not realize how this looks? It's killing me, I tell you.