On Wednesday I had my first kitchen fire. I suppose I use that term loosely I suppose.  I really just caught a napkin on fire (on a toaster oven heating element), but I burned my knuckle and melted a bit of my shoe trying to put it out before I just let it burn out on the floor. It was amusing and not terribly traumatic or problematic ( Read more... )

(Prologue: Saying that Mudd is hard is like saying there are a few atoms in the universe. It kicked my ass, my ego and my self esteem in ways that are difficult and painful to describe. That said, the following is also true)

I went to Harvey Mudd. I friggin' love that place sometimes. Case in point:

First, Victoria's Secret decided to release some ( Read more... )

purplepsilon was the only one to correctly guess which of the six culinary adventures I went on this weekend.  
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My first thought was "wow, look at all these cool things I did this weekend... I'll post about them!!"Then I realized that maybe these things aren't cool. So first a poll. I had a foodful weekend. First, guess which of the following I did. Then tell me if you're at all interested in hearing about them.
Poll Weekend of food!

I wish I could do a real update with a laptop and Internet, but alas, only iPhone and edge ( Read more... )

To stay until the fireworks or not... That would make about 13 hours here today, but I'd still get back to my hotel by 10pm

I'm pretty sleepy and I've done almost everything already.

About to watch a 45 minute show, and then eat some dinner... So maybe I guess.

Having a good time, but I will admit that this would have been more fun with someone else.

Also, I didn't need to get here at the crack of dawn; now I'm exhausted.

Nap time?

in Orlando!! In line for epcot before it opens!! And posting to lj because I'm here by myself, and that's ok.

Orlando is hot and humid, duh.

It may be 5:45 pdt, but my excitement is huge. I'm screwed for tomorrow.

Two Passages: The first about Venice, since I was just there and this seemed like a good way to explain it. The second, an new belief that may replace my mantra "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response".

Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder ( Read more... )

Crap week. 2009 is not off to a good start. :(