Yesterday afternoon I was judging a mock trial competition for Lewis & Clark. Tonight I'm at a metal concert. One guess which feels like a better use of time...

I represented Florida's 19th District, but then I got high
I tried to make welfare rules a lot more strict, but then I got high
Now I'm on a leave of absence, and I know why (why man?)
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high

I didn't know it was actually possible to accidentally bite your tongue so hard that it bleeds.

Like, a lot.

I hope I can still talk.

I totally forgot the Fifth of November.

(Until I was at Ground Kontrol and saw a dude in a Guy Fawkes mask playing Rock Band. I just assumed he was a /b/tard.)

She: Someone has written The Autobiography of Death

Me: ... wouldn't that be, Death?
Me: "I WAS BORN A POOR BLACK ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION"

(Oddly, I can't actually find a book called 'The Autobiography of Death' anywhere.)

The new firm's website is mostly up and running. My decision to use smaller images interspersed on the page, rather than a single large image at the top of each page, seems to make it a lot harder to make the pages seem neat and finished. And we haven't yet begin filming videos, but that's more Karen's idea and her thing. But it seems not bad. I ( Read more... )

Karen won her case before the Oregon Supreme Court.

Tonight after I got out of work, around 8:00, I went shopping at a crafts store in SE Portland. As I was walking towards the door, I saw three young people leaving, who I knew were Reedies. I'd never met them before, but it was obvious - for one thing, one of them was wearing a Reed sweatshirt. But even without that, I would have been able to tell ( Read more... )

I have a new niece today - yesterday, technically. Alyssa Nicole was born on August 25th at 6:25 pm, weighing 6 lb 12 oz. Mother and child are apparently well. No other information is currently available. I'm asked to go down to see them, but I don't know when I can this week ( Read more... )

I got my photo taken with Amanda Palmer and some other people at Powell's today and it's on the internet