Garment care may be the death of me. A mundane and necessary task, yet almost labrynthine in nature, if you have clothes with different laundry instructions, and if you care about following them. I am only just now starting to care, and very much against my will. But it can't be helped; buying my own clothes makes it a lot harder to be indifferent ( Read more... )

I can't decide if it's adorable or pathetic that I wrote stories featuring myself and my classmates while in middle school. On balance, possibly a bit of both. I suppose it signals personal growth, that I'm no longer overwhelmed in embarrassment by the mere thought of it. Plus, some furious Find+Replace'ing to substitute names of Harry Potter ( Read more... )

I liked Troy much more than I thought I would. Yes, I've only just seen it. It got a lot more palatable once I'd let myself stop comparing it to the source material. And then it rapidly got fun. It probably helped that my viewing companion sold me on watching it precisely for shlocky sentimentality. Emotional junk food. With lovely... sceneryHave ( Read more... )