Archive for March, 2014

one more M for the road

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Last Monday in March: can’t skip Maru! [via Maru’s blog]

well, that’s something

Sunday, March 30th, 2014

From the game 2048, created by Gabriele Cirulli. Important things to know about 2048: 1. An appropriate alternate name would be “the game that ate Saturday.” 2. The highest I’ve ever gotten is 512. 3. copperbadge created a Chris Evans Edition.

weather words

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

“The winter struggles to reign supreme, but, in the end, it is obliged to accept spring’s victory, which brings with it flowers and happiness.” -Paulo Coelho

Bucky saves the day

Friday, March 28th, 2014

Bucky the otter was my copilot and navigator for the big trip this afternoon. total mileage: 66.1 miles total time: about 90 minutes wrong turns: 1 (but I fixed it)

checklist o’ the day

Friday, March 28th, 2014

*driving directions (official & unofficial) *snacks / water / phone / wallet (the basics, yes?) *folder, to make things look official *bear plush for good luck *utter panic that I will screw this up Yup, I have everything!

movie review: About Time

Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

It’s the time traveling romance movie that’s not ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife.’ I liked it! (Okay, I cried, but only at the sad parts, and it was actually a surprisingly happy and hopeful movie. Also I fast-forwarded over a few parts that were embarrassing or that I was nervous about. It still took two hours […]

not displeased to be awake now

Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

Last night I dreamed that Bucky Barnes could transform into a crow.* And that a miniature pony wandered through the woods into the driveway.** And that I was supposed to get all the chickens back in the coop, but one of them was tangled up in something. (*It’s a safe bet that this has actually […]

Monday M for Moose

Monday, March 24th, 2014

I couldn’t let March go by without honoring the MOOSE. Sure, adult moose are kind of awkward and gangly-looking. And the babies are too, but with an added essence of adorableness. [photo credit Robert DeBerry, via Los Angeles Times]

fic rec o’ the day

Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

Pebble, by jenna_thorn Pre-Avengers; Phil getting to know Clint and Natasha as they troll Sitwell. He was unsurprised to find that she’d hacked into the computer surveillance and was reading a list of what seemed to be search terms. The word combinations at the bottom, the early searches, seemed to be a mish mash of […]

my day so far

Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

From largest percentage of time to smallest: *boring work stuff *workplace DRAMA *checking tumblr *thinking about all the productive things I could be doing, like writing or showering *eating *speculating about the weather *debating whether to go to work early tomorrow *actually doing productive stuff [Note: You can tell that it’s late in the winter […]