On Saturday, I am leaving for Las Vegas for a week. To do an advanced hot yoga seminar. This is not a well-planned trip; in fact, I booked it on Monday morning ( Read more... )

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This is what I will be doing in a week.

Needless to say, I am ridiculously excited. Seven days in the middle of nowhere, with a backpack and some dehydrated food? Awesome.

I will also be the only one of the female persuasion in the group. I shall have to be tough.

Except my thesis proposal, but let's not discuss that during this wave of euphoria. In celebration and as an apology for basically falling off the face of the earth into my puddle of lamesauce, I propose a party of sorts ( Read more... )

How I feel most days:

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You should also probably watch the follow-up, Half Pots.

And the three things meme:

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We would know that all things are belated. This New Year's post especially so.

In my defence, I offer the fact that 2009 sucked royally as a consecutive twelve month arrangement. There is no more intelligent way to articulate this fact. I wanted to be sure that 2010 would appear to improve before bounding in with sunny optimism. So far, so good (but ( Read more... )

First, read this to prime you for some awesome vegetarian recipes. (And because I'm having a rare missionary moment and feel the need to remind all of the strange southern flisty people who celebrate Thanksgiving in November that it IS possible-and delicious-to have said autumnal celebration without dead birds. Did I mention that I highly recommend ( Read more... )

Today was awesome. Let me tell you why ( Read more... )

Just did Bikram for the first time in about eight months. Torn between perfect elation and wanting to die, mostly because I know that in the morning I WILL want to die. My body will thank me, though. Especially when I go back for more tomorrow ( Read more... )

Had a lovely birthday-type day, yesterday, and am about to dash out the door in pursuit of some things that need to be done before the weekend takes hold. Like get my car key replaced so that I can move said car. But, first, to prove that I am not nearly as shallow as I pretend ( Read more... )