All the Best Books of 1983
Posted in cats, picspam, tribulations on Aug 31st, 2010
My brain is totes fried (note to self: write posts in the morning), so I’m going to give you the best thing I’ve currently got: a picture of Oliver on a leash.
Whatever, you know you love it.
Posted in personal, tribulations on Aug 30th, 2010
It must be noted that I have never been a particularly cleanly or organized person. As a very small child, I shared a room with FANG!, and it was the despair of my mother’s household. We could not or would not keep our toys straight, our beds made, or our clothes off the floor–she read [...]
Posted in cats, picspam, tribulations on Aug 25th, 2010
Well, because it’s a side effect of BEING STALKED.
Oliver is…not adjusting so well to being dragged cross-country. He’s actually attacked me–twice–and bitten George. True, he was “provoked” in both cases (we grabbed him by his scruff to prevent him from eating his sister, and he took exception to that), but still. It’s very unlike him.
And [...]
Posted in personal, tribulations, trufax on Aug 21st, 2010
Now don’t get me wrong: Tucson has some serious weather. Tucson’s weather is so serious that George and I broke down and bought clip-on sunglasses, AND WE WEAR THEM IN PUBLIC. Because if we didn’t, the sunlight would have already burned our eyes out of their sockets.
You KNOW a place is bright when just walking [...]
Posted in books, fiction, mysteries, personal, travel, tribulations on Aug 18th, 2010
So here’s the thing: I didn’t drive any of the 2,000,000+ miles to Tucson, because I am not a very good driver, the family car is kind of a boat, the rearview mirror was blocked, we were carrying so much stuff that at certain points the tailpipe scraped the asphalt, and George is just too [...]
Posted in cats, picspam, travel, tribulations on Aug 16th, 2010
George and I gave the comfort of the cats a lot of thought when we were about to travel cross-country; I mean, if you’re going to be stuck in a box for four days, it should be a nice box, yanno? All that thought led us to one conclusion: we could NOT take the cats [...]
Posted in cats, oddities, personal, picspam, travel, tribulations on Aug 13th, 2010
For most of my life, I’ve lived in the part of the South that is also part of the East Coast, which has meant that none of my extended relatives have been anywhere near me. So when George and I were driving across the country to get to Tucson (PS: we made it! I’ll start [...]
Posted in movies, tribulations on Aug 6th, 2010
For the record, I did not want to see this movie; I wanted to see Salt. Because I love watching Angelina Jolie do accents and kill people.
Instead, I got a goddamn cartoon. A BAD goddamn cartoon. This is what happens when you’re out to dinner with a bunch of people who can’t agree on anything: [...]
Posted in oddities, personal, race, tribulations on Aug 5th, 2010
So for those of you not in the know, I’m your typical European-American ethnic mashup. On my dad’s side, I am almost exclusively Italian, but on my mom’s side? It is one giant Northern-European free-for-all, folks. The best way to describe mom’s side of the family is “Scandinavian,” because that way people understand that you [...]
Posted in books, fantasy, fiction, gender, movies, personal, sci-fi, tribulations on Jul 23rd, 2010
So PJreads wrote that they’d like to sign up for the read-a-thon, but I’d have to read either Ursula Le Guin or Sheri Tepper. And I was like, “URSULA, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, URSULA, because I have read enough Tepper for the rest of my LIFE!”
And PJreads very rationally asked which books I had [...]
