I just made my first real grocery store run since moving (and really since about a month before I moved, since I was trying to eat up my stores) - as a result I now have so many delicious, healthful things to eat in the kitchen, many of them perishable, that I have just been gorging myself. Almonds! Grapes! Bananas! Brie! Herby salad mix! Avocado! ( Read more... )

The through-wall sleeve AC unit: sold!
The couch: sold!
The microwave: sold!
The rice cooker: still not sold.
The ungodly amount of books: 13 boxes and counting, plus 5 smaller boxes.

I have a playlist of music for evoking a sense of grand escapism. So far the playlist is all historical/fantasy cinema soundtracks, but I would like to rejuvenate/extend it if anyone has suggestions ( Read more... )

ladybird97 gave me 22 for a then-and-now meme! Reply in the comments if you want to play too, and I will give you a number.
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I've been filling in gaps in my 18th century novel-reading in my spare time- did Burney's "Cecilia" (excellent!) and just finished Lewis' "The Monk" (silly!). What should I read next ( Read more... )

over at http://thistleingrey.dreamwidth.org/193792.html , thistleingrey amusingly takes down Alice Hoffman's "The Foretelling ( Read more... )

Hey - I'm trying to put a simple registration form on a wordpress blog, but it's not working properly. Here is the code I'm using:

[contact-form subject="Conference Registration" to="desiredaddress@gmail.com[contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true ( Read more... )

I have - or, I had - an old grey 2-layer ski jacket that I've been wearing since I lived in Boston. It's too big and so rather shapeless on me, but nice and warm. Recently the inner liner started to flake such that every time I stood up it was like a cloud of giant dandruff. I emailed the maker, Columbia, and said that the jacket was quite old, I ( Read more... )

M. invited me to his family Christmas in Montreal, but did so rather close to the wire. "We could take the bus, which is reasonably priced and takes all day," he said. "The plane is really expensive because it's international. Then there's the train but that takes 12 hours ( Read more... )

Saw the new "Trek" promo, which seems to be teasing Cumberbatch as Khan after all, and found myself really hoping that it is a misdirect. And not just because of the whole issue of white actors taking minority parts, but because the whole reason "Wrath of Khan" is an epic narrative is that it's a battle between two old enemies, Kirk and Khan, with ( Read more... )