I have just finished the episode of the Colbert Report in which he interviews Neil Gaiman, and am pleased to learn that Neil Gaiman shares my inexplicable dislike for Tom Bombadil.  Also, Stephen Colbert often makes me squee when he makes uber-nerd references right out of the blue ( Read more... )

Again, I am still alive. This is quite possibly the longest I've gone without a post.  'Member back in the day when we all used to post, like, daily, maybe twice daily?  Anyway, rest assured that I am reading your journals far more often then I post on my own.  Not too hard, really, seeing as only about 4 people post on here regularly any more ( Read more... )

 Still alive! I know you all were on tenterhooks.  Actually, you're all my Facebook friends as well so you've probably seen the status messages ( Read more... )

Sometime in the past two weeks I was planning on posting something about how I was really stressed out and busy with everything I had to do, but I didn't have time.

So, recap of things accomplished recently:

1) Packed up and moved/threw out/ donated the contents of my apartment.  Most of the stuff I wanted to keep is in the Dunham-Jackson storage ( Read more... )

The election, it turns out, was merely prologue for this day, which I must admit I didn't completely believe would happen until it did ( Read more... )

i threw myself a going away party last night, which was not as well attended as i'd hoped, but that was probably just as well as i was exhausted by 9pm.  I got people to take some of my stuff away (the point of the party) and can probably find homes for the rest.  i just have to summon the willpower not to eat the two giant bags of leftover  ( Read more... )

 It's been a day of sleeping for me.  I seem to have an illness wherein I can't stay upright for long periods of time.  I took the day off work, hoping I could at least get some stuff done around the apartment, but no, just lots of sleeping.

I promised you all a rant about the holidays, the Obama cabinet/ inauguration picks, and my imminent move.  I ( Read more... )

oh my.  it's been over a month since my last post.  my excuse would be that i've been busy (which I have!) but that would mean i'd be bursting full of exciting things i couldn't wait to tell you all, yes ( Read more... )

well, i got my bb gun ( Read more... )

the long, drawn-out, exhaustive slog for the presidency is finally over-- today is voting day!  i have followed this race rather obsessively (as have many others), and even during the times when it was simply all too much, when it seemed like it would never end, when absolutely every avenue for rational discussion had been exhausted and most of the ( Read more... )