I'm giving up Dr Pepper ( Read more... )

Day 07 - Your favorite piece of lore?

The short answer is: everything. In high school I was that girl who held the esteemed position of Alpha Nerd because I was the only one who had read and (if I didn’t fully understand everything) could correct my nerd friends on the finer points of the Silmarillion’s lore. The point being: I fucking love lore ( Read more... )

I flaked out on this over the weekend because I was lazy and also I went to Austin for SXSW, which was cool but very, very crowded and there were lots of very, very smelly people. Seriously, it was like being in London on the hottest day of the year -- AMERICANS, USE YOUR DEODORANT, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER ( Read more... )

Day 02 - The biggest jerk you’ve dealt with (in game)?

I am very extra certain that most people I know who have played WoW will have encountered people far more spectacularly jerktastic than my poor example here. XD I have heard horror stories akin to the delights posted on Fat, Ugly, or Slutty, but have thankfully lived a pretty blissfully ( Read more... )

I really swear WoW is not my entire life, although you are getting two WoW-related updates in one day. :/

Taken from calpatine!

30 Days of WoW MemeDay 01 - Your first character ( Read more... )

( WoW-post, pass right on by if you're not interested. <3 )

( ... but I am hella proud of my girl. <3 )

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While reading through the slideshow of statistics related to this article on 15 College Degrees That Are Going Extinct I had to stop and laugh and laugh and feel really happy that they chose John of fucking Gaunt to represent History as a subject.

John of Gaunt. NO LIE.

They also used Barney to represent extinction, which what? For real? ( Read more... )

"Someday the books will tumble from the shelves at the Bodleian and there will be no one to replace them." -- I am not going to lie: James Griffioen's Story of the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository made me cry. As an assistant librarian and proto-archivist I can see books and the funding for books being discarded all around me -- Texas ( Read more... )