Yesterday was my first class for the English 101 course I'm taking, Composition & Critical Thought. The professor is funny and engaging; we're writing a research paper, but we get to pick any illustration from the main textbook to research/analyze. The textbook, Seeing and Writing 3 by Donald and Christine McQuade, is wonderful. I think the course ( Read more... )

Many congrats to the newly engaged
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Gmail lets me compose and submit LJ comment replies directly in the pane! Exciting. I'm starting to be glad I finally decided to switch over from aggravating (and attaching-ads-to-emails) Hotmail.

Also, just got A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer (Alpha guest author) from the library and it's amazing. I didn't believe the promotional cover blurb (by ( Read more... )

Scrolly-wheel click opens a link in a new tab!! That's freaking amazing.

So, I finally decided to install the famous Greasemonkey extension. I've been using Firefox for a while now--to the extent that using IE makes me wince--but I didn't think I really needed all the extra functionality. Maybe I do. We'll see.

Anyway, I remember my f-list posting about a script for update.bml that added a clickable list of tags. A long ( Read more... )

I keep seeing people admonish others for not archiving their communities, and it made me wonder: how exactly could I backup this journal? Other than manually copy-and-pasting, which is a pain.

If you don't believe that the human body can ignore pain, try ice skating for three hours (30 minutes of which is walking around the outside of the rink in laced skates, waiting).

I heart it, though.

To round off my recent spasm attack of posts...

I never knew you could scrub/wash/clean your hands with ice. It's freezing and painful, but it works.

I must remember that for a story sometime.

This spring a cute little mother bird decided to make her cute little nest in an evergreen shrub on the right of our front door. Pictures of the cuteness (albeit not very clear photos):


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