Sadly, Elizabeth Sladen, who played Dr. Who's popular companion Sarah-Jane Smith in Dr Who as well as surprisingly cool kids show The Sarah Jane Adventures died yesterday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8464295/Elisabeth-Sladen.html

just set up my first real (ie non-artificial) christmas tree, which makes me feel frightfully, and surprisingly settled. 

RIP Blanche.

alas, it seems that a large portion of my flist is making its way to escapade, which mades me a bit sad--not that they are going, but that i'm not going to be able to make it this year.  i'd really been looking forward to it, but life has been far too hectic lately (with any luck i'll post more about that later) and i just couldnt get the schedule ( Read more... )

is that all those little things that seem too insignificant to post tend to collect into big things, which then seem to huge to post.  food for thought. 

can i just mention that i HATE earthquakes (which you should read as they scare the living daylights out of me).  you might well ask why i live in southern california, to which my answer is (now more than ever) i have no idea.  having been here in the san fernando valley for the northridge quake, in which my roommate's father was almost crushed by ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's been almost a week since returning from escapade (apparently con decompression takes a while for me), and i have to say that i had a great time this year.   and since escapade functions as my new year, in that this is when i tend to make all of my yearly resolutions, i will say that i am going to (try to) commit myself to sticking with ( Read more... )

 ok, i'm in the market for an external hard drive on which to store all the extraneous crap that is cluttering up my computer.  so i thought, who better to look to than the few, the proud, the flist.  anybody have any thoughts, suggestions, brands to embrace/avoid, etc.? 

Ok, so in a frenzy of cleaning over the weekend i stumbled upon yet more evidence that i am indeed losing my mind. Wedged between the couch and the bookshelf (ready for this?) the christmas gift i bought for my mother (yes, for this past Christmas. i'm not that on the ball) ! Granted, it arrived a bit late due to some backordering issues, but i ( Read more... )

and for once i'm not actually talking about the weather. over the last couple of weeks i've had the following happen ( Read more... )