It is December 22nd. I am in the middle of nowhere in Vermont. The outside temperature is currently 30.7 degrees.

A ladybug just landed on the couch.

For some reason, this amuses me.

My girlfriend is wonderful and incredible and the best person ever and yay.

Yay :D

Discuss.

(I'll write a real update eventually. Maybe. Also, these gothboi icons that I've had for the last three and a half years really aren't expressive enough. Hm.)

Even if you don't read my politiwanks usually, if you're currently a citizen of the United States read this link (and the links it links to - don't worry, it's short, and it won't kill more than a few minutes of your precious leisure time) on how Apparently, We're All Going to Have National Identity Cards by 2008. It's big, it's real, and it's ( Read more... )

"RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Mark R. Warner granted clemency Tuesday to a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Robin Lovitt's sentence was commuted to life in prison. Lovitt was set to be executed by injection Wednesday night for stabbing a man ( Read more... )

It's worth repeating ( Read more... )

Today we as a country officially celebrate murder, death, torture, slavery, genocide, crass ethnocentricism, and the glorification of an utterly worthless individual, even by the standards of his own time. (And believe me. I've done the research. If anyone wants the extended version, feel free to ask ( Read more... )

They let me off work again after only two hours. Other than cursorily checking Craigslist for any last-minute singles prospects, I've suddenly a lull of free time of a variety that is welcome. New readers probably won't be so familiar with the fact that I used to be quite the accomplished song parody-writer, i.e. writing new lyrics to an existing ( Read more... )

Not a bad birthday, albeit as uneventful as I'd planned it. Got off work early because they ran out of things for me to do. Spent much of the rest of the day lounging about, daydreaming, occasionally talking to the cat in her own language, and generally letting myself be in a good mood.

Roommates: Got to meet Emily 2 today. At first it was ( Read more... )

(00:19:01) sillyfilmdudevt ( Read more... )

....And a happy turning-23 day to jude.

Because, while I totally fail at remembering the birthdays of most of my friends and family, not remembering the birthday of someone born two years and a day before you were is practically a criminal offense.

Hope the kids haven't eaten your brain yet.

Munch, munch.

Mmm, brains.