Well, a platonic one :) Neither of them have the parts for anything more, uh, intimate. Her name is Lada, and she's a 1-year old Siberian who loves kids. She has mild conjunctivitis and scarring in her eye from when she had it as a kitten, so we'll have to give her drops, but hopefully she won't be difficult. We get to keep her overnight to ( Read more... )

I tried to find a Tamil class in Austin, but couldn't find one. They do offer courses at UT, but that would require a) going during the workday and b) learning how to read, when I'm only interested in conversation. I managed to find some online classes from a company based in Austin and I e-mailed the contact, who said that all the classes were ( Read more... )

Just returned from a 2-week vacation, where I met up with my friend Laurie in Rome, and then mom and sister in Florence and Siena, and then a few days with Veronica in Portugal ( Read more... )

The director of the chamber music society e-mailed me and asked if I'd be interested in doing their summer program. It's for 2 weeks at the end of July, with 3 coached rehearsals a week and then a concert. I told her that if she can find me a good group, then I'd love to. I really enjoyed playing with my first group, but the second one was ( Read more... )

For something I listed for $22 ( Read more... )

I hate it when I'm around someone who's totally stressed and driving like they're in a hurry, and then come back from lunch and just feel tension in my whole body.

If I post an ad on Craigslist for free stuff, with a link to pics of all my stuff for sale and also a link to all my other CL listings, I wouldn't think that someone would just assume that everything shown in the album was free, especially since the picture of free items was titled "free stuff!". She must have thought "wow, she is giving away some ( Read more... )

Seriously, no action happens in this episode except that the plague goes around England killing everybody, even infecting Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Wolsey, but they happen to make it through miraculously? And what's up with the "horror movie" nightmare sequences? *rolls eyes* Please tell me there was a writer's strike.

I am in states of varying dizziness. It sucks.

I'm returning from out-of-town on that afternoon. Am trying to decide whether I should get tickets now (leaning against) or going to get tickets on the night if I'm back in time and not too tired....