idle musings

I have completely torn my ACL. Next on the list is to get x-rays because the specialist my doc is sending me to likes to have them. Then, I wait. The specialist will call my doc’s office and they will call me to set up an appointment. Apparently specialists do not like patients to call [...]

I awoke a few nights ago to a strange scraping-on-glass sound. Being half asleep and so therefore not thinking about any snippets of horror movies I have ever seen, I got up and came out to the living room to see what was going on. Andy was up on the wide window sill that runs [...]

I have completed 19.5 things out of 101. That means I am 19.3% finished my list, not even 4 months in. However, I have completed easy stuff, and there is major stuff still to do, some of which won’t get done this year or even next, but hopefully the year after. I also have 12 [...]

Taken word for word from Leslie‘s livejournal (because I’m lazy and she worded it better than I): Joke has a pet project, this “writing project,” which she calls “beats of life,” that she’s done every year for three years now.  she picks a topic for the year, and then a bunch of people from different [...]

I had an MRI on Tuesday. It was really less of an adventure than I’d hoped – in fact, at one point, I was staring at the ceiling, wondering how I was going to blog about such an uneventful event. The answer is that I’m going to bore you. Be prepared. It cost me $875 [...]

Hope.

I am cataloguing more books today and I appear to have lent out one of my favourite books – Deerskin, by Robin McKinley. If I lent this book to you, please, I need it back. Can y’all check your bookshelves to see if you have it?

My first love is reading. I knew how to read before I hit kindergarten. I have one memory of not being able to read and the main feeling in it is irritation because I’m looking at the comics and I want to be able to read them to myself. I have always had a bookshelf [...]

The next time you look in the mirror and think that you’ll never look like those people in the magazines, go look at this site, under the ‘portfolio’ tab. Wake up call – those people don’t look like those people until they’ve been airbrushed perfect. I did always wonder how they had such perfect skin [...]

I have very mixed emotions about homeless people with animals, but this picture … … made me cry a little.