Happy St. Patrick's Day to one and all. Mom and Sara came up to celebrate my birthday early today, and in addition to birthday money, I got a set of four wine glasses, which replace the one I accidentally shattered last week (a tiny glass shard from that glass cut my right index finger earlier today when I was cleaning my room), so now I can ( Read more... )

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My second bit of paid time ends tomorrow, and I think I'm going to let it lapse, because I really want to rethink my web presence. Again. So, as I'm contemplating revamping, I leave you with an approximation of what I'm thinking of doing, a very rough approximation.


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Tempest comes out tomorrow, and my new class doesn't meet in the morning, so I'm off to Cedar Rapids first thing to pick up the next "Legacy of the Force" book at Barnes and Noble. I'm virtually unspoiled for this one, so it should be fun, but I'll just say that as Jacen falls further to the Dark Side that I really wish they'd bring his brother ( Read more... )

We talked a little over AIM yesterday, which is about the only way we've kept in touch in almost two years (except for a couple of phone calls along the line). I had to head out for lunch, but before I did I asked if we'd ever talk in person again. She was idle when I asked this, and when I got back to my computer I saw she had replied, but hadn' ( Read more... )

Too much on my mind, and I can't lie still long enough to go to sleep. Plus, I really want to get sucked into a book and can't, no matter how hard I try. Of course, that's mainly because Tempest, the latest book in the Legacy of the Force doesn't come out until the 28th, and that's what I really want to read right now.

Okay, this was so odd I had to show one and all:


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Woke up this morning to find out that it's apparently the Great American Smoke-Out today, and the ped mall here on Cornell's hilltop is dotted with smoking factoid signs, illuminating the dangers of smoking. I really don't want to smoke a cigarette in the slightest right now, but I really think it would be morbidly funny to pose in front a sign or ( Read more... )

Went shopping for various things this morning, and as Sara said as I talked to her on the phone in the store, there's something calming about doing your shopping early on a Saturday, when everything you need to pick up is housed under a single roof. I grabbed another pair of jeans and a new refill for my Airwick plugin: "Inspiration," a blend of ( Read more... )

Tonight I hung out with some friends and drank a cold beer without a headache or fogginess in my head for the very first time, and felt, for the first time since 2003, like I was truly alive and part of this world. It wasn't that there was anything spectacularly earthshattering about the hanging-out time; in fact, it was perfectly normal, and that ( Read more... )