Just a quick FYI - the network in lab disconnects me quite frequently (the IT guys have been here, they say they can't fix it, it's endemic to the network in these buildings, no idea why), which kicks me out of things like IM programs. It doesn't -tell- me it's done this, and it seems to not send me some messages around the disconnect times. Also ( Read more... )

Gogo headache. Mmm, Excedrin ( Read more... )

I can has flowers at work?

I can has flowers at work!

(Somehow appropriately, they are now sitting in a Pyrex beaker, and I snipped the ends off with dissecting scissors..)

From the comic strip who brought us this take on the new WoW expansion, we now see THIS Death Knight wallpaper of awesomeness.

Also, for those MMO addicts among us who are also pro-new-administration, there's the U.S. Democracy Server - Patch Day NotesOn a more serious note, Guantanamo Bay will be closed within a year, and things like ( Read more... )

Sometimes, contradictorily to intention, the more I say the worse I make things. I know I should be resolute and try again, rah rah on with the attempt, but some days all I really want to do is retreat. I think today I will, and maybe tomorrow will be different ( Read more... )

I feel.. old. I want ten years of my life back. I want to re-make choices. I want to go back and tell myself that there was never anything worth being so hard and unforgiving of myself for, nothing so bad that I needed to undermine my future self with such painful self-loathing. I want to stop feeling as if I'm on the verge of turning 80 rather ( Read more... )

Ah, Bushisms. They are the awesome. "Misunderestimated" is one of my favourite not-a-word-words ( Read more... )

Apparently, telling T that I actually like using Vista and want to install it on my soon-to-be-upgraded desktop system is enough to make him clutch at his chest and look as if I've just slaughtered him ( Read more... )

hello randomness!

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Acts of Service.

Complete set of results
Quality Time: 11Acts of Service: 7Physical Touch: 7Words of Affirmation: 4Receiving Gifts: 1

Take the quiz

Many things on my mind lately. I feel as if I should delve back into the past, discover who I have become and am becoming by sinking my fingers deeply into the fertile earth of my origins, the places in which my roots are buried. It's a difficult prospect, at the same time, carrying with it fears that I will overwhelm myself with the burdens of ( Read more... )