I have cleaned today. The kind of cleaning that involves actually moving the furniture so I can vacuum under it. This was after waking up at a quarter to seven on about five hours sleep (or maybe less), driving 3.5 hours across the state line, and doing some Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I still have to do the real hard work--cleaning the kitchen ( Read more... )

So I managed to drop a box on my chest today. Which isn't nearly as cool-sounding as that time a couple years ago I stabbed myself with a sword, but the box actually hurt a lot more and gave me a bruise. And it all just goes to show this is not a profession for klutzes. Or short people ( Read more... )

Oh man, you guys. You guys. I totally want to dominate the world with y'all. (My evol plan, since I suppose I should mention it? Backrubs. I shall make everyone succumb to me, one by one. With backrubs. I once started an entire row of people sitting on the steps down the house in our mainstage, giving the person sitting in front of them a ( Read more... )

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the Donald Lam books had never been nominated for yuletide before. I probably shouldn't be shocked since, uh, I'm not sure they're read a whole lot anymore, but still. Obscure, not that obscure ( Read more... )

You should all be pleased to know that, instead of spamming LJ ruthlessly today, I have made better use of my time by working on the e-cards I've been planning to send half my friends/family for Christmas. Never mind that I'm spamming LJ now in order to inform you all of my restraint. Whatever ( Read more... )

While I do not loathe Daylight Savings Time nearly as much as some people I know, particularly my mother, I do hate the way I have to get up in the dark before sunrise again. It's so much easier to get up in the morning if I have sunlight creeping through the blinds ( Read more... )

Writing is shite. And you know what? I like the historical present. So there ( Read more... )

Okay, if nothing else, I came home at exactly the right time. The street I live on has to be one of the most beautiful streets in IN (or at least this county)--there's an area thick with trees, with a pond on either side of the street, and it's seventy-five degrees with a light breeze and hardly a cloud in the sky and sunlight changing the space ( Read more... )

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When the Burg has a power outage, it has a power outage. A strong, strapping, enduring power outage, not one of your wimpy, measily little thirty-second ordeals, nosiree, thank you very much. While today wasn't quite like the Epic Power Outage of my freshman year (complete with Godlike backup lighting at one point in the caf), the first time it ( Read more... )