The text of this post has changed so much that I just wiped it to start over. :) This journal is a combination of locked and unlocked. Enjoy what's visible, stranger, or speak, friend, and I will decide on entry.

I am very, very busy. Work is great, and absorbs a lot of my energy and time and processor cycles. I am spending a lot of my free time with my boyfriend, and we had a raft of out of town visitors for a while--first his friend Alex, then his other little brother, and then my bff. Three weeks of visitors! Which was great but also very exhausting. ( Read more... )

The Toast gives a list of 79 books which, allegedly, all white men own. Bold those you own. Italicize those you have read. Strikeout those you've never heard of would have to be paid to read. Bonus points if you're not a white male.

1. Shogun, James Clavell
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. ( Read more... )

Giant rats save lives!

Reading h_d and naturalliving really makes me think that most humans alive in North America are not suited for actual life on a planet. We need to colonize the Moon so these people can go live somewhere without actual life outside their hermetically sealed domes.

Got back from Europe last week, promptly got sick. Conference went well, London was great, Paris was amazing, Amboise was really lovely ( Read more... )

Finished my alien sunset painting. Next involved project I'm calling "the bee painting". Been painting some bugs and stuff in between of course. Had to get a straight edge and a protractor for it. Almost got a t-square but I managed to do it without.

Gonna paint some flowers maybe. I got some little square canvases.

Can't believe I leave on

1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No ( Read more... )

I can't believe we leave in a week for London. ANGST. Also it would be really nice if my freaking cheque would come so I can deposit it and start waiting out the hold. NEEDS TEH MONIES.

I panned an aggressively mediocre (to passively bad) Regency romance novel on Amazon and now the author and her mum are mad at me.