So my roommate got this cat from the shelter. He's a mix, but I'm pretty sure from his build, headshape, and tendency to NEVER SHUT UP, that he's mostly Siamese. Except that his coloring is orange tabby. He's super cute and friendly, but does have this slight NEVER SHUTTING UP problem. Also tends to freak out and tear around the house at random ( Read more... )

So, in the BVIs on my Dad's boat. So far have drunk a lot of rum, eaten a lot of fish, taught a cat to steal said fish from the plates of diners in an outdoor restaurant, won a bottle of rum in a dance contest, snorkeled in the caves of Treasure Island, been to a full moon party complete with psycotropic mushroom tea in Tortola, discovered that ( Read more... )

Hey, all you computer people.

What would be a fair price for a 4 year old Dell laptop, good condition, standard everything?

For a priveledged American who's only 23 and has never been involved in a major accident or incident, I'm starting to have a remarkably large collection of People-I-know-who-are-dead. A guy I studied in China with just got killed in an army training exercise in Africa. We weren't close at all, but I once spent an entire evening hanging out with his ( Read more... )

This morning I overslept, woke up feeling extremely ill and out of sorts with the world, and was late to work. To top it all off, according to Livejournal, I have no friends ( Read more... )

Before they invented bobby pins, what did Jewish men use to keep their yarmulkes from falling off?

(And I just checked, just so I didn't accidentally offend anyone, but I totally spelled "yarmulke" right on the first try!)

On the last day of the year 2007, I went cross-country skiing in Norway. It was a perfect beautiful day, and we set out to climb a mountain. The scenery was gorgeous, everything was edged in frost and/or covered in snow, and it was just cold enough to be crisp. However, I have never cross-country skied before. I made it up the mountain with a lot ( Read more... )

Last night a friend told me that she wished she was really rich so that she could pay for me to have a sex change so that I could be her boyfriend.

Yesterday I came in to work to find that our boilers had caught fire at 4am and the entire plant was now flooded with water, oil, and bits of burned wood. I spent the day picking up pieces of insulation and wood that were too big to sweep, shoveling piles of smaller pieces into buckets, and climbing around taking pictures of the damage for ( Read more... )

Went to my first ballroom competition yesterday, competed in Rumba, Cha-cha, Jive, Waltz and Foxtrot at Bronze level. Got 2nd in all my latin dances (but out of two couples so not really impressive), got some really helpful feedback from the judges, took 1st in waltz and foxtrot (out of lots of couples, so much more impressive)! Also saw some ( Read more... )