Messages you should be able to find in a Hallmark card:

"Sorry I almost killed you in the stairs today."

As everyone must know by now, Haiti was recently devastated by an earthquake. The tragedy struck a very personal chord when I learned that a haitian co-worker and friend, who is one of the sweetest men I know, lost his parents and aunt when their house in Port-au-Prince collapsed ( Read more... )

26. Our Gods Wear Spandex by Chris Knowles: A non-fiction book about the mystic/religious origin of superheroes; the essays draw some fascinating parallels between the gods and heroes of the ancient world, and how superheroes fulfill the same purpose in our modern society. The book spent a lot of time pinpointing the exact beginning of the modern ( Read more... )

A big sparkly thank-you to everyone who made it out to the Pride parade on Sunday, despite the looming threat of rain! And an even bigger thank-you to everyone who enthusiastically waved at the Jer's Vision group! (did y'all see me ( Read more... )

There's a girl from another team we work with who has the most annoying laugh I have ever heard (to reproduce it: gasp like you just saw something shocking. That sudden intake of breath you just created? Now repeat it over and over. That's how she laughs. GASP! GASP! GASP! And she laughs *a lot ( Read more... )

Oh goodness. I'm supposed to be proofreading the Publiservice staffing personnel user guide but my eyes keep glazing over and my mind keeps wandering to much more interesting things, like robots and ninjas and tea with scones.

We attended the Lumiere Festival last weekend, an absolutely gorgeous lantern and performance festival, which culminated ( Read more... )

I won't post any lenghty reviews for these, since I mostly want to jot them down before I forget everything. It's been a while since the last update ( Read more... )

Well if this isn't the most frustrating e-mail exchange I've ever had with a client, I don't know what is ( Read more... )

A word meme, taken from the always-awesome ladyprydian

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

My words, as given by ladyprydian: Transformers, Japan, French (Language), Potatoes, and Marriage.

( Words, words, we're gonna have words... )

My mother just called me at work to tell me that a girl I used to play with when I was younger has just died (in her sleep, unknown cause). It's strange, and I'm not quite sure how I feel; she was the niece of one of my mom's old boyfriends, and whenever she and her sister and I would meet up, we'd have a blast together. We were like cousins, or ( Read more... )