+ Discovering that iced chai tea plus a shot of espresso is possibly my new favorite drink in the universe (go try it, it is delicious).

+ ontd_lostffa  in general.

+ The new Lost ARG. I've never played an ARG, but I love puzzle-solving games, and spent a good chunk of last night trying to beat an insidious memory game, put a satellite phone back together and ( Read more... )

 I'm sorry, but this is the best thing I've heard all day.

From ABC.com: Vuvuzela protest on BP promises to exact revenge

God, I wish I was back in London for this.

Also:


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I am in the midst of packing my bags for what's bound to be the most awesome beach trip EVER, you guys. Tomorrow the sister and I fly back to NC to meet up with our giant family of friends, and then we are all piling into a conversion van known as the Ninjamobile and heading to the beach to go camping.

Camping.

On the beach.

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So, I now have a job at the local vet clinic. Granted, it'll be a lot of poo-scooping and kennel help and answering phone calls at the front desk, but I'm totally down with that. I like science! I like animals! I like solving problems! This is all good. (And it's infinitely preferable to my former life of selling flat-screen TVs, which I really ( Read more... )

So.

Last night was an adventure, to say the least.

I went to a finale party hosted by some truly brilliant people from my church (I swear, I wonder if I'm related to them somehow -- they are all writers and musicians, raging sci-fi fans, and I met them at a class on the band U2, for crying out loud), and man, did everyone go all out! I know it was ( Read more... )

I went to Iron Man 2 last night, and I have to say that it was the most thoroughly enjoyable movie I've seen all year. Granted, I'm the same person who wrote a ten-page research paper on sci-fi's influence on real-world technology after seeing the first movie a few years ago, so perhaps I'm biased, but really. Nerdgasm. The first movie was probably ( Read more... )

Well, this weekend was quite the adventure.

Remember those people who sent me to England last summer, the British American Business Council? Well, they had their annual fundraising luncheon on Friday, which is what helps to pay for the Summer Studies Program. They always try to have the previous year's students come to the luncheon and give a little ( Read more... )

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Home from U2 concert/friend-reunion/raves. Full report tomorrow. I am simply worn out from too much awesome in one weekend.

I like music. I like Benjamin Linus. It was kind of inevitable that I would attempt to combine the two somewhere down the line. Behold the fruits of my compulsively geeky labors -- a fanmix for one of the coolest characters to ever grace a TV screen.

Notes and such: Tracklist, lyric-snippets and download links under the cut. Contents include...well ( Read more... )