...who, if she hadn't read these books, should hurry and just go ahead and buy them. But I'm sure she has (also, this particular letter reminds me so much of how you've been writing lately and the gentleman to whom you've been writing here on LJ that I had to share). =)

from Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence"Griffin ( Read more... )

Okay, so on Sunday last I officially took my macbook into apple because the GD track pad on my mouse was fucked up six ways to sunday (I could do NOTHING on my computer--not watch movies, use word, go online--NOTHING). So they have had my computer since then and I just got it back tonight. It is beautifully cleaned, and applecare paid for all $173 ( Read more... )

I've been utterly hooked on the TV show "Bones" lately. HOOKED, I TELL YOU ( Read more... )

Ellie Andrews: Have you ever been in love, Peter?
Peter Warne: Me?
Ellie Andrews: Yes. Haven't you ever thought about it at all? It seems to me you, you could make some girl wonderfully happy.
Peter Warne: Sure I've thought about it. Who hasn't? If I could ever meet the right sort of girl. Aw, where you gonna find her? Somebody that's real. ( Read more... )

If you still haven't seen this movie, make it a priority. Come on. How many movies have Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Savlador Dali in them?

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I am a domestic goddess! Today, after doing my anatomy homework, my composition homework, skipping my reading, starting another new book (I think I'm currently reading...four books), and stopping by work to get my schedule because I was a total rube and forgot to yesterday, I cooked/baked/made ( Read more... )

stolen from Taraneh:

Just carve it on a rubber stamp,
Press it in ink,
And wallop me on the forehead with it:
UNFIT FOR LOVE

I embrace the evolutionary title of 'maladapted.' Nothing else makes sense anymore.

Yes, yes, a hundred times yes.

I wish I could give you folks Christine's description of this tale when Erik reads it to her in Susan Kay's Phantom. Another time. I practically have it memorised ("night after night, the rose trembled at his voice...") but I know I'd get it wrong.

Taraneh, do you have it?

A poem:

One lovely evening in Allah's garden ( Read more... )