For my birthday, my mother offered to buy me a pair of shoes, so now I have to decide which shoes ( Read more... )

C2E2 today (yay for having decent cons in Chicago! Near my birthday! And at a time when I magically have money!)

I got sketches from Zach Weiner, Randy Milholland, Danielle Corsetto, Becky whose last name I don't recall, and gushed at Erika Moen. Funny story about Erika Moen-- a few years ago, I posted on lj about finding her comic DAR, and ( Read more... )

I'm interested in reading a good history of South Africa ( Read more... )

Why are there no non-fingerless, normal gloves on etsy?

Geoff's theory is that fingers are really hard to knit, but then again, there is this pattern, which calls its skill level "ambitious beginner". Am I to conclude that all of the people who sell their knitting on etsy are non-ambitious beginners? Or can I blame this, once again, on an overly ( Read more... )

Until your TA successfully guides me through opening a data file in SAS, I'm going to continue doing my analyses in a program I know, MMkay?

Taking this from hadaverde, because I think I need to remind myself of happy things lately ( Read more... )

I like living with people and I like roommates, but I hate spending even two days with parents, even other peoples' parents ( Read more... )

( sales and swaps )

I've been accidentally starting arguments with people lately. The contexts are ones where I would ordinarily find someone's comment offensive, or incorrect, bullshitty, what-have-you, but would ordinaril decide it wasn't worth it to say something. And in fact, in all of these cases, on oe my thoughts is "You're wrong, but it's really not worth the ( Read more... )

I am from the south, but not really. I'm from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which is within a southern state, but is always singled out as being entirely non-representative of southern culture. I never felt any particular identification with "the South" as an entity while growing up, and I always thought it was very silly when someone would call me ( Read more... )