It is Friday night and I am home. And posting, for the first time in too long, because I'm still denying the fact that learning how (by which I mean remembering for more than 30 seconds) to tie a half hitch, and get it in the right place in the string, is going to take some effort. It'll lead to much nicer, faster beadwork, but in the meantime I'm ( Read more... )

So. Mostly-drunk and livejournaling, and still obsessive enough to care about typos.

( A museum and some other rambling )

I get so few funny email forwards, which is fine because most of them aren't that funny. However, every once in a while... I present, for your amusement, the pre-date confidence builder: http://www.zefrank.com/predate/index2.html

I am amused.

Tell me that I do not need DVD copies of Nochnoy Dozor and its sequels. (The second one has been released on DVD, the third has not been released at all, even in Russian theaters.) Right? At least not until they're -all- available ( Read more... )

a'ight, kids. It's that time again. Renfest runs from yesterday to October 22.

Adam and I went yesterday, and didn't die of heat exhaustion, and I hadn't made new garb. I re-dyed my skirt black on Friday evening, because of an Unfortunate Incident in which I sortof bleached patches of it and it looked awful, so now it's a nice dark black again, but ( Read more... )

So, ever since I found an entry on making butter on the Cooking for Engineers site a few months ago, I've been wanting to try it.

Yesterday, I did.

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No one who eats as badly as I have done in the last week or so should continue to shrink. And I haven't been going to the gym, either, not since last week... or maybe -two- weeks ago. (Sad, but I'm overscheduled. It's my own fault and I'm not unhappy about it, really, so I can't actually complain.) Granted, it's rather minor shrinkage, but still. ( Read more... )

From my 10th grade humanities textbook: "Oleg, however, swore by his weapons and the pagan gods of thunder and cattle rather than a Christian god ( Read more... )

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