Yesterday's lone post will give you enough of an impression of how my day at work went. So here's catching up on the enjoyable stuff instead.

Chanty Sing was Tuesday night and it was good. At my table there was a tzel, picsty, wcg, and a fellow who I was convinced was tzel's spouse but turned out not to be (evidently this happens to him a bit, as they're all ( Read more... )

Here's some upcoming events I would like to bring to your attention for the purpose of delight and cultural edification. Because I love you (and because I'm going and it would be great to see you all there):

Two Tribal Belly Dance Events This Weekend

Charm City TribalSaturday, February 27th, 9pm Doors, 9:30 Show. Attendance is free ( Read more... )

It has recently come to my attention that several of you are not aware of the awesome and wonderful comic Girl Genius. So this is a post to remedy this oversight ( Read more... )

Happy John Frum day! What are you doing to celebrate?

Finding the right words, whatever they wereYesterday didn't start off really well, though it was much more a case of bloody stupid inconveniences rather than serious problems, at least for me. Traffic was a terrible snarl on a day that I had to get my car to the mechanic for maintenance, such that I was pretty much doomed to be late for work on a ( Read more... )

Here's some cool stuff some of the cool folks I know are up to:

1:There's a new update at Sihaya Designs Jewelry (run by the lovely and talented sihaya09). Gorgeous and wonderfully items of artistic creation and sparkling balance.

2: marinatempest is teaching ATS classes in Baltimore City ( Read more... )

I may have to buy my yearly pair of gloves soon. It's too cold to be outside without them. At last count I have three left gloves and no right gloves, from the previous few years of yearly gloves. I am considering wearing a proper winter hat, and will probably be wearing my little red riding hood cloak at Longwood this weekend (still haven't found ( Read more... )

This is one of those things that makes so much sense that it would be a dreadful act of inelegance on the part of the universe for it to be wrong.

Common plants, such at petunias and potatoes, may be mildly carnivorous (via nancylebovMakes perfect sense to me. It's already established that plants engage in acts of complicated acts of bioterrorism, chemical ( Read more... )

There was ice in the cans in the recycling bin this morning. I finally turned on the heat in the house, though I'm keeping the thermostat low enough to please my mother (who never comes to my house, but is nonetheless my mother and would know) and to keep the cats affectionate ( Read more... )

uilos was diligent enough to track down the videocast of Dr. Sapolsky's lecture at NIH last month, Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies. I agree with her assessment that the first bit of it gets a bit heavy into biochemistry (if you're a lay audience member, which this mostly wasn't), though it's worth listening to and handled in a fairly ( Read more... )