Should have listened to my intuition. Oh well. I had a mostly good time.

I feel like a sacrificial lamb sometimes when I go through the motions of getting dressed, putting on makeup, perfume, and all that jazz. Normally I adore this. Other days, I wonder what perverse altar of sexuality I am laying myself on every time I do this. I don't mean it in the sense of sleeping with someone as much as a metaphoric perception, ( Read more... )

How to make a night_daughter
Ingredients:

3 parts intelligence

3 parts ambition

3 parts energy
Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Serve with a slice of lovability and a pinch of salt. Yum!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Standing room only. The heat so stifling that my clothes were soaked, clinging to my body as I tried to look over the heads of crying strangers towards the pastor. Among the strangers, faces of friends, old faces of familiar comfort, voices cracking with grief. "A celebration of life"... His life, our lives. The final chapter in what has proven to ( Read more... )

Tuesday was very bad. I stayed at work until 8:00 pm, then started driving home. I felt like I was floating somewhere else. It's a miracle I made it out to the highway alive, since I kept forgetting I was in a car. For no reason that I could think of, I drove to Beijing - a little restaurant in old greenbelt. There was no one there except me and ( Read more... )

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Well, exams are over, for better or worse. Won't guess as to how well/badly I did on them. But does Anna get any rest? Nooo, Anna doesn't get any rest ( Read more... )

I walked outside late this morning and almost tripped over a gigantic flower arrangement outside the door. It was a beautiful set of pale violet and white lilacs. Checking the card, I saw Oleg's name and a phone number - no message, nothing. How's that for intriguing :) The number looked to belong to the DC area, so I called and, sure enough, there ( Read more... )

I've been oscillating on how I did on the econ exam from "great" to "horrible" to "okay." If only I hadn't second guessed myself... But dammit, they put in evil tricky unrealistic numbers - the equations they gave could not possibly exist in reality! I did a double check on the answers when I got home, and sure enough, the exchange rates and ( Read more... )