My homesickness is manifesting itself as an obsession with Houlihan's! It's ridiculous. I am thinking about Houlihan's all the time, daydreaming about going there for lunch, etc. I think I actually AM going to go for dinner tonight, after I call the airport and find out whether I can even get to it. It might be past the point where you need a ( Read more... )

Boston is fine, everything is going well! It's very, very cold, and I'm wearing long underwear EVERYWHERE. Brrrrr! It makes a huge difference. I'm thinking about getting some lined jeans from Land's End or something. I really need new pants ( Read more... )

I'm watching the marriage equality debate online right now. I'm deeply hoping that the Senate will do the right thing today, but it's very precarious. I keep wanting to kick the Republican senators in the teeth. OH MY GOD ( Read more... )

I'm as moved in as I'm likely to be, and pretty comfortably, all things considered. Trying to dredge up the energy to go to the store and pick up some of the things I forgot to pack. And to Starbucks, for coffee and possibly lunch. I also need to go to the grocery store ( Read more... )

Just out of bed from my second nap today, and thinking slow, medicine-heavy thoughts about the end of the year. I didn't work in 2009, or drive a car, or take a class. I feel like I spent the whole year failing to accomplish ( Read more... )

I had a lovely family Christmas with lots of snow and far too many cookies! It's snowing again now, big fat pretty flakes that have the cats fascinated. Yesterday Max climbed the Christmas tree and got the caught with the lights strung around his neck, and he is not a cat that takes kindly to human interference, so it took three of us to get him ( Read more... )

Just got to my parents' house! Mom came down and picked me up, and I spent the part of the drive from I-84 on with my nose pressed to the window like a puppy, looking at the stars. I never seem to see stars in New Jersey. Too many lights in Red Bank, I guess. This is the first I've seen Orion all year ( Read more... )

I was just watching a hilarious video, and over the end credits was a song that goes:

First guy: I'm at the Pizza Hut.
Second Guy: Whut?
First: I'm at the Taco Bell.
Second: Whut?
First: I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell!
Second: I'm at the Pizza Hut.
First: Whut?
Second: I'm at the Taco Bell.
First: Whut?
Second: I'm at the ( Read more... )

Things are busy! Not right this minute. Right this minute I'm sitting in the living room watching Leverage and messing with a Facebook page. I have Facebook, you guys! I tried to request everyone's friendship, but sometimes the scripts would stop working and I don't know if the requests went through or not. I'll get this figured out ( Read more... )

Please stop toying with my emotions like this. You run hot and cold, hot and cold. You let me apply for benefits, then tell me you're not going to actually let me have them. You refuse to answer my phone calls for weeks at a time, and then you send me the benefit check paperwork, but with a big "NON-NEGOTIABLE" stamped across the check space ( Read more... )