on saturday i went to the peabody essex museum with the parental unit and their neighbor, and when i finally get all the pictures off my phone i can share some of them. there was a rodin exhibit. so much fabulous sculpture. also a lot of random plaster maquettes, and sculptures made from cannibalized parts of other sculptures. apparently rodin ( Read more... )

one of my cousins is in town with her husband and youngest kid, so my sister and i met them for dinner last night, plus another cousin and my uncle. this particular uncle has been a dick to my mom - his baby sister - and neither my sister nor i like him or want to spend time with him, so the fact he was joining us for dinner was a big bummer. ( Read more... )

happy birthdays to ignipes and shivering-lance, fabulous writers both! also pretty cool people. allow me to offer wishes of pleasant days and cake and maybe a sparkler or two.

dancing boys and girls: *two-step*

and that. :D

there's a new perk for the wincon indiegogo campaign - namely, a book made by yours truly. for a $40 pledge you too can own one! look, i ( Read more... )

there's a schoolhouse rock special on tv right now. they're counting down the top five songs and i'm just a bill was #2. (#1 is conjunction junction.) the animation is so dated - it's amazingly 70s - but this is how a whole generation of american kids learned important things like grammar and science (interplanet janet - she's a galaxy girl :D ( Read more... )

railroad of wretches hell on wheels returns tonight so amc is running a marathon right now and i want to sit around and watch it and remind myself what happened last season except i also need to leave the house to a. write my entry for therealljidol and b. pick up my comics. (new hawkeye! which evidently addresses his deafness! i'm not sure what else is in ( Read more... )

so i have survived another yom kippur, go me. the family unit and i broke the fast with... chinese takeout, which seemed really appropriate. (my dad can't really go anywhere on account of his knee is still healing, altho he did make it to the last couple hours of services.) and then i got my dad to watch hell on wheels, which was an experience ( Read more... )

today i met drglam for lunch and we sat in the waffle place where we went for FOUR HOURS. i mentioned as we were leaving that oh yeah, i've been known to break time. but we were talking! about stuff! and things! and dr who! and elementary! and she watches revolution too and is kinda liking it! and then we went to the grocery store because we both ( Read more... )

i finally watched the spn s8 premiere and i didn't hate it! i think liked it, even. i just have ( two questions. )

caught the first episode of the leverage summer finale, and i liked it. ( spoilery comments! )

anyone who saw hell on wheels tonight, what happened in the very last scene, the conversation between lily and bohannon? i couldn't hear! still like the show, tho, even if i'm always convinced i'm missing something important ( Read more... )