( Another post about tea )

Driving to work, two license plates: "JENSPONY" AND "MOIPONY", both on Mustangs. It is too early in the morning for that kind of thing, people.

In other news, the girl at the Fair Oaks Teavana recommended going to Teasim (which I've been disappointed by), Ten Ren (in MD), and Ching Ching Cha. The website for that last one? OMG. So promising! This ( Read more... )

15 weeks since last post, apparently. I don't call people often enough, I don't write letters, I don't even post passive mass-messages on LJ. I'm sure this Says Something, but I'm not sure I feel like examining exactly -what- at the moment ( Read more... )

Damn, I haven't posted since June ( Read more... )

From the Foreword to Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (all typos are my own)

This is probably copyrighted, but it expresses something tangental to a point I have often wanted to make to a lot of people.

In the years since I began to write about Earthsea I've changed, of course, and so have the people who read the books. All times are ( Read more... )

So, after ages of not posting, what is worth putting up here?

I have joined the "big monitor" club. I have a 20" flat panel, which is more monitor than I strictly need, but it's beautiful. Text has crisper edges, and other things are also significantly prettier. And it doesn't have that weird perpetually-too-dark vibe that the other one had going on ( Read more... )

First thing: there's a sign in the kitchen/breakroom at work advertising for a presentation called the Virginia Monologues. I see the V, the g, and the a, and misread the sign every time it catches my eye. We're a pretty liberal office, but still... Work doesn't seem like the place to advertize the other V-g-a monologues.

Second thing: there's a ( Read more... )

So, I'm still here. I still write entries at work, email them to myself, and then decide they're not worth posting.

The brief summary of the actual events of the past month and a half looks like this:

Catching a bad cold a few weeks before Christmas is not recommended. I was better in time to make ten thousand cookies (like the girl in ( Read more... )

So, the autumn that seemed like it would last forever is ending. I looked out the window one day and realized that all the leaves had just let go, the tree was bare, the falling done. The swirls of dancing leaves all lie crushed into the wet pavement. It's done. Now we're just in this middle zone, past Halloween and not yet fully into the holiday ( Read more... )

Unleashing drunken havoc on teh internets!

But seriously, I had this weird dream about dinosaurs this morning. And then we discussed thesauruses at work, which is logical and actually not related to dinosaurs at all. Because it's thuh-soar-us, not thea-saurus, the dinosaur of wisdom. And when I was a kid, I had a sleepasaurus rex t-shirt. Ah, but if ( Read more... )