It was another long weekend of homework avoidance.  Although, to be fair, I did get my homework accomplished.  Must stop slacking.

I played some LBP, which unleashed a two hour torrent of expletives.

And I finished another stitchy.  This one is for the Moo's birthday.  Since he never reads this journal, I can post it here (with apologies to everyone ( Read more... )

Some days you just feel like shopping.

Went to Clinique for new eyeshadow, mascara (b/c the tube from M.A.C. blows), and toner.  Bought the Coraline DVD from Barnes and Noble during their 20% off sale (right now).

At lunch I bought a strawberry/banana smoothie from the fruit stall, then hoofed it down to the used bookstore at 2nd and Market St. ( Read more... )

Finally.  There are some red hot pokers in my academic fire.  If everything goes according to plan, they might bring hot stabbity death to my lack-luster resume.

The first poker I proposed is to mine the archives for commercially viable data, then jump through the fiery hoops of publication.  This idea has been met with enthusiasm by one of ( Read more... )

Oh Pat Buchanan, it's way past time to retire, buddy.  Being stodgy is only going to get you so far with the seniors.  To the rest of us literate folk, you just look like a doddering ass.

Boyfriend and I had a giggle last night, watching Rachel Maddow  correct some of Pat's statements from a previous show:

1.  100% of the people who built this ( Read more... )

Dreamt that I was trying to get myself committed into a psychiatric ward while under heavy sedation.  The doctor on call was giving me a hard time about it.

Every morning, I wake up and immediately take a shower.  I put on clean clothes and a couple squirts of perfume - not too heavy.  Imagine my surprise when the man I was sitting next to on the ( Read more... )

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Cornish game hens, perfectly proportioned for one or two people.  And who doesn't like handling what resembles a freakishly small raw chicken?

I tried a Gweneth Paltrow GOOP recipe on the first hen.  Go ahead, verbally abuse me for even knowing her trite little newsletter exists, I deserve it.  Recipe was still good, even if my kitchen doesn't ( Read more... )

"Philadelphia pool denies turning away minority kids due to race."

B/c the statements made by white members: "what are those black kids doing here" and "I'll make sure they never come back" are so very tolerant.  Yes, I'm sure it was a matter of "overcrowding" and had nothing to do with race whatsoever.  Why else would white parents snatch their ( Read more... )

Last Friday Boyfriend and I enjoyed a leisurely day in the city, celebrating our 3 year anniversary.  The camera battery ran out, so no pictures for you!

Like a good Boyfriend, he let me plan the entire agenda which included an early dinner at Monk's Cafe on 16th and Spruce.  I'd been to their sister establishment and loved it.  But The Belgian Cafe ( Read more... )

I'm in the loo, brushing my teeth and listening to RadioLab on NPR last night.  The broadcast was about sperm and how Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to see sperm through a microscope (immediately after copulation, no less).

Could you imagine being the first person in the history of mankind to see actual, individual sperm?  If I were ( Read more... )