today feels like friday. it is not friday. i have to work from work tomorrow so i need to keep reminding myself that it is not friday ( Read more... )

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one of my pi's is out until september so i've been watering the plants in his office, which means every week i get to a. fluff a fern (this is not a euphemism - it's a very fluffy fern), b. accidentally water the top of the filing cabinet because the fern is so fluffy i can't tell where it ends, and c. take a lindor truffle for my trouble. also d ( Read more... )

did i not post at all last week? i guess i didn't have anything to say. wednesday at work one of my groups had a pizza lunch to say goodbye to one of our summer students - we ate all the pizza! there were no leftovers! i ordered just enough! this never happens! - and thursday was the monthly admin lunch and i ate too much. >.< there were ( Read more... )

i have returned from the wars! and by "wars" i mean "the cape". i wrote about 2700 words, which i used to be able to do in a couple hours rather than a couple days, and after a while i wondered if it was boring because i thought it was because i know how bad my worldbuilding is and i've been kind of poking at this story for a year and i don't ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw indiana jones and the dial of destiny (which i still think is a stupid title) on saturday and if you can get past the idea that it's not a movie that needed to be made it's not as bad as i was expecting. (to be fair my expectations were low.) it has some vague callbacks to previous movies (well, 1, 2, and 4 - i can't remember ( Read more... )

i was doing so well with snowflake and then *pfft*. now i have to catch up.


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happy solstice, all! from now on the days get longer. :D (or shorter if you're in the southern hemisphere. sorry about that ( Read more... )

yesterday my sister and i saw two open houses (she's still looking for a place), had lunch, saw two more open houses, went back to her place, measured her furniture and mentally arranged it in open house #2, and watched mrs harris goes to paris which is now streaming for rent. it has almost no surprises but it's a very sweet, very romantic, very ( Read more... )