Here I am.

Due to a scheduling mishap I have one more Firefly ticket than I need. $40 if anyone wants it. I'll post to the mailing list if I don't get any takers here.

Dammit, Google. I use my saved locations. I have at least 40 addresses in there. So what if I can search for them? What if I want to change one? And are new searches going to erase my old locations?
relevant Google Group

One of our new users, very enthusiastic (I love you guys! Can you tell me how to...?) uses the word "swift" to mean cool. I've used cool, neat, shiny, shibby, sweet, mint, nifty, keen, sweet, sick, nasty, awesome, and several others. But I'd never heard of swift. Indiana.

All the oaks you'd ever want, maybe
standing straight and tall, slim and smooth
grappling, gnarly, wrangling the earth with twisted feet, arching over the rushing water
bark that curls, rough, and they look old, old, old, only three inches in diameter
their branches dip and zig, snaking through the air
she bursts from the top of the forest, monstrous and powerful, great and tall and older than time.

Overlook, and miss nothing
the whole place is slate, I swear
grey and brittle, cracking and crumbling, flat sheets
breaking and falling until
far below
the earth slows
and melts into the river

I wished for lilacs
and there they stood
across the path from the stand of pines, deep and dark and green
with young oaks overlooking from the ridge.

I could disappear in this.

Welcome to Peebles Island.

Today was a bit of fail. A lot of tired, some boredom, lots of meh, feh, blah.
I moved my bike and the lawnmower out of the rain. They're things I spent money and time and thought on; I should take care of them.
I am endeavoring to improve the day with people and music. And SpaghettiOs, for they are an excellent comfort food.

My cat is very much a person. She's aware and communicative and sometimes talkative. I think she was made by god. I also think, maybe, we should get her something that's made to be scratched.

Wow it is pouring out.

It looks like it's about to start raining for a week. The plants will like it, but I should get what sun I can tomorrow.

I really want to go to the Arnold Arboretum's Lilac Sunday this year. It's on May 11th. I'd love it if a bunch of other people came with me to enjoy it! This means you! Wanna go?

I am not buying this bike. But...wow. underwatercolor and I were drawing these on the backs on napkins on the flight to Burning Man in August last year.

And it's such a pretty color.

What's that, you say? Blood oranges are messy, dripping, juicy? Let me help. My, you taste delicious.

It's a real shame - I can only get 15 walking minutes on the bike path before I have to head back towards work. I wonder what I can wear to work that I can run in. I don't think jeans are my best option.

My feet need to go bare - I should go dig out my sandals.

Yay for good weekends! Thanks to beah and mrf_arch and sensurfer and doze_e_fish for the excellent crash spaces and tasty foods, and to queen_of_wands for hanging out and getting sunburned with me in Davis, and to any_contingency for joining me in my quest to find better road maps of the area, and to rip_off_life for being my awesome sister and walking around with me in the rain and taking me shopping on Newbury Street and keeping me from getting lost in Boston. I also saw a million of you at Much Ado About Nothing, and the whole thing was entirely too excellent for words. How marvelous it is that these stories still have us roaring with laughter and sobbing into our drinks, even now.

Saturday had me laughing at the sunshine and grinning at the cloudy reflections in tall buildings and whistling in the rain and and cheering on the thunder and skipping through puddles and swearing at my crunchy red-burnt skin. Oh, weather. ^_^

"Are you fucking serious, little girl? You just ran into my car!"
The people in my neighborhood are kind of depressing sometimes.
The kid was dumb and crossed right in front of the car, of course. But "Why don't you ride on the sidewalk like you're supposed to?" doesn't sound like it's an argument that's going anywhere.

My dad is on Daily Kos! Have a look.
The MetroWest Daily has another article, as well.

I think I have plans for every weekend from now through May 26th. o_O That makes me feel a bit overwhelmed. I'm not exactly sure how this happened.

On the other hand, I expect I'll have a lot of fun, and I'll see lots of folks I want to see.
On the other hand, if I wanted to make plans with anyone, I might have a hard time fitting new timespace into the schedule.

I do like the BBC. This nature article and video was about the first thing I saw today.

Last year underwatercolor planted crocuses in our yard. They are up and blooming now. Pretty excellent.

Do you have the Mark?
All my friends going about life with sprouts on their wrists. Just living, growing, being.

oh! My doctor said I have awesome cholesterol levels! Yay!

The light I brought to the office is buzzing/ringing, one of those really high pitches like CRT TVs. I think I want the light it produces enough to deal with the noise, but I might want to look into replacing this bulb. hmm.
*tries turning it off*
*enveloped by shadows*
Tricky.

I got to go hiking today! Thank you, entrochan! That was great.

Maybe I'll post this again later.
Anyone want to see a movie Sunday afternoon? Persepolis, perhaps?

stepping out of the car to find the world alive and singing, her cold fingers streaming though my hair. hello, darling.

I don't think I'm bouncing to Boston just yet, but if you happen to be searching for housing near Davis, have a look.

Happy Equinox! I was taking pictures of green things peeping up out of the ground this past weekend.

Also, in honor of Arthur C. Clarke, we watched 2001 last night, and it was great. How many movies actually have an intermission? Also, we got to experience someone hearing the "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that," line for the first time in total context. hee.

EDIT: My entire library network seems to lack a DVD copy of 2010?? Maybe I'll borrow the VHS version... or just find a video store that has it in stock.

What are you doing this Friday night and Saturday morning/day? 'Cause I'm free. Wanna hang?

Significantly impaired on just about every level. The hangover doesn't help.

This is our new friendly kitteh. So far, that's her name, too. She showed up about a week ago and hasn't left, so we're taking care of a cat. I like having a cat around.

Juries and power.

Thanks to devoken!

Now when you use a custom security on your posts, LJ tells you what groups can view it. That is very handy.

Don't fight it.

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This game is too cool not to share. Thanks to underwatercolor

Yesterday was stupidly cool. I was kinda anxious going in, and things generally turned out okay. But wow, I saw a million of you, and I got smiles and hugs and heartfelt whatsits. Hi! You all rock.

For heartwarming videos, this woman found this lion hurt and about to die. She took him home and took care of him. When the lion was better she called the local zoo. This was the reaction she got when the lion saw her.

Reddit has the puns for it.

And I'm reminded of Androcles. We had some really great illustrated books of myths and legends lying around when I was young.

Go look, if you haven't!

The last time the moon looked like this, people were walking past my tent crying "The Man is burning!"
This one is a bit less surreal.

underwatercolor got me a shiny new monitor for my birthday. It's awesome. <3

I don't know what it says
that a dream can help so much
when I'm coming to a finish
and, on waking, see where we could be.
I need more dreams like this.

H.U.G.s? K.I.S.S.es?

Happy Birthday to Lincoln and Darwin!

thrillingwonder posted this, from here.

Does anyone know why my computer beeps when I hold down shift and then hit c and then d?
It's done this for as long as I can remember.
I'm curious if it's true for every T40 given out during my freshman year. That's a lot of unmeant beeps, when you start talking about music.

I'm loving this rain. February is not being cold and grey right now. It is being wet and alive. It's stomping through puddles and kissing under raging storms and running inside for hot baths and hot drinks.

Tomorrow is a big day.
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday.
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday.
Tomorrow is the day I turn 23.

I'll post more about it then, I guess.

Whether or not you've gotten me anything, you can make me happy by going out and voting tomorrow.

...
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
...

( The Moody Blues )
Listen, we think we have found you.

So "to be, or not to be" is not the universal question. It is the question for the West. For all existentialist thinking, "to be, or not to be" really is the question. And when it is the question, man must necessarily be anxious. The moment we know that we exist, we face the possibility that we might cease to be. And so we tremble. But when "to be, or not to be" is not the question, we as individuals come to feel that we are not something strange in this world. We come to feel that we are an expression of the world, and that the world is us. We are more than our physical bodies. Our physical body is "us," in one sense, and has a certain degree of independence. But at the same time, it is an expression of the entire universe, as a wave is an expression of the ocean. The ocean waves to us and says "Yoo-hoo, I am here." In the same way, the whole cosmos waves at us and says "Hi," and waves at the other waves and says "Hello, glad to meet you." But we are all really the one center expressing itself, playing in an infinite variety of ways.

I added the whole thing for context, but mostly, when I got to the end, I was thinking of inhumandecency, and wondering about his dragon, and who I'll meet the next time he writes about someone that wants to bounce up and smile and say "Hi!"

Also, walking gets me singing with her. I must do this more.

ooh. Alto recorders are big. Damn my little girly hands. *stretches*

In this morning's dream, I think deviousneko and I killed an evil man with strawberries.