Back from my yearly "Elizabethan salmon" trek to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. This year they made the controversial decision to interpret Richard III as someone suffering from cocaine addiction--or maybe that was just the casting. Either way, he spoke so fast and was generally so frenetic that I left without much idea what had happened, even ( Read more... )

Why are there less than two weeks between the end of the last term and the beginning of the next one?

Due to long and frustrating circumstances I don't want to get into, I am taking a "surprise!" semester this summer. Found out about a week ago. I guess I knew there was a reason other than slacking that I hadn't made summer plans yet. But I was ( Read more... )

Why do I have a computer full of fanfiction written right up to the last two paragraphs, with no end in sight?

In honor of a hearsay report of a woman on Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" who is on a campaign to make swearing illegal--and suggests you say Buddha instead of Jesus to cuss, because that's okay and nobody cares--I am trying to compile a list of equal opportunity cusses.  "Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick" and "Buddha on a bicycle" have been ( Read more... )

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it's a cat.

Yesterday I climbed a tree for the first time in many, many years. So worth being sore.

This is me holding a little less than half of the tumbleweed that rode home on the front of my car today. I intended to drive home in triumph with the whole thing still adorning my grill--I made it most of the way, but then it started to break off so I pulled over and stuffed the remains in my backseat. No way I'm abandoning my trophy.
( To the victor go the spoils )

Just booked what may prove to be one of the longer and more expensive vacations in my life. 3 days in Paris and 5 in London, me and my mom. Yes, we have return-to-europe-itis. It's an inescapable condition. We are almost exactly nine months away. Insert the pregnancy joke of your choice.

"Behold! Now the true source of your power is clamped tightly around my buttocks."

And other such necessary lines. This will crack you up. Then you will find yourself singing it at inopportune moments.

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I can haz netbook. :)