The Marci Rating System

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

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.

“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 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)

*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!

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 […]

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 […]

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]

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 […]

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 […]