Ah, summer vacation. I love it. Finally, I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, with no guilt. Not that I didn't still have an agenda for my day, it just doesn't involve school things!

• I went on a bike ride this afternoon, and when I got into town I discovered there's some sort of festival going on this weekend. Now that's fun and all, but it ( Read more... )

I can finally crawl out from that rock I've been living under! What have I been up to the last week?

1. Writing final exams. By the end of the semester, I felt like I was just writing non-stop, and I had so much to do that I pretty much ceased to care about quality, as long as all my assignments and exams got done. And they did. I suspect some were ( Read more... )

This weekend was very busy. I read some articles, wrote a paper, read some more articles, looked up articles online, read those too ( Read more... )

Normally, I'm not a big online quiz person, but last night in Digital Preservation I stumbled upon this site Recipe Star, which is a new site with... recipes, duh. Their "What would you taste like to a cannibal?" quiz was too bizarre to pass up.


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I felt better about my apparent weakness when my roommate the personal trainer, who is much stronger than me, also could not open my jam jar. Of course, his inability to open it didn't help me with the continuing PB&J problem, sooo... I tried again ( Read more... )

For two days, a jam jar has stood between me and my lunch. Yesterday morning I had to abandon hope and leave my half-constructed sandwich in the fridge, or else be late for work. (Yeah, I left a plate in my fridge with two slices of bread, one spread with peanut butter. Pathetic ( Read more... )

I hope everyone's enjoyed their first day of 2009. :)

Mine's been pretty slow. Last night I went to a party, so I slept in the morning. Then I spent the rest of the day doing important things like reading Georgette Heyer and switching out most of my LJ icons. My dad made stuffed shells for dinner, which were much yummier than sauerkraut.

CD101, ( Read more... )

Things are not looking good for my Buckeyes. :(

On the upside, I just had really fantastic Mexican food for dinner. We went to a place in Arlington that was recommended in Washingtonian as a best bargain restaurant. I had enchiladas de pollo con mole, and they were delicious ( Read more... )

The past week I've mostly been reading news articles that have left me frustrated or angry, so today I've got some other stuff I found interesting in the Sunday papers.

I know some of my f-listers may be interested in the Billie Piper interview in The Observer today. She talks both about her pregnancy and the upcoming series of Secret Diary of a ( Read more... )

It's easy to do. Just eat everything. Then have some more.

Seriously. 12,000 calories a day. I can't even imagine. Of course, I don't spend my whole day swimming and working out. Michael Phelps is not normal.

"This man is in a very, very different place to the rest of us. He's 6ft 4in and 192lb of pure joy. From a female perspective, obviously. ( Read more... )