*Two* live frogs consumed.

[mrissa]

The day is officially allowed to get better from here. On the up side, it's more or less scheduled to do so.

Tell me something good along the way.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

pameladean is growing moonflowers!

No wonder this solar system is so full of moons, that's what I say.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's all pameladean's fault? I never knew!

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

There is a cloudy sky, that is oddly yellow, and the trees outside my window have dark green leaves against it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The trees outside my window are doing the yellow and the green both themselves, both brilliantly.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

There is much shiny in my life right now. Also, I have coffee. And Nick Cave's music. Also yesterday was my first wedding anniversary and I have the best husband in the history of husbands.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. How about you have one of the best husbands in the history of husbands?

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

For me, he is the best husband I could possibly have. He would probably not be a very good husband for you, though. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Yesterday at the vet's, we met a four-week-old dachshund puppy named Isis who bestowed lickies of unusual vigor whilst nearly slaying all about her with her preternatural cuteness.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Fresh-pressed apple cider.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

fog in The City, and a house full of groceries.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

It's 75 degrees in Brooklyn, I'm in shorts and a t-shirt, and my big debate is whether to grade papers in the sunshine in the back yard or in the sunshine in my office.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope the difficulties surrounding this dreadful decision do not require therapy down the road. My thoughts are with you in this tough time. Stay strong.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I have a new friend who speaks Turkish, and I get to dig up my dusty one-semester-of-Turkish and practice.

froog cosmogony!

[greykev.livejournal.com]

While camping careswen and I discovered the Froog pantheon. I will not be writing a Great Allegorical Novel about froogs, titled watership marsh. I feel this to be a very good thing.

Re: froog cosmogony!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Rather.

[howl-at-the-sun.livejournal.com]

I am beginning to think it is okay to be determined to do things, and to believe that I will actually do them.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah. Hard sometimes. But still okay.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have a sea-serpent puppet cuddled under my small stuffed blue dragon's wing. Under the other wing is a malachite cat. It's very cozy under my monitor.

[ckd]

I have the day off, because us wimps in academia get even the minor holidays[1]. This meant that I could sleep in and then proceed to lounge around at great (lack of) speed.

My microwave popcorn popper works great and results in a snack that's both cheaper[2] and healthier than the pop-in-a-bag-full-of-weird-chemicals stuff.

The hot weather seems to have finally left, at least for today. (This is New England, after all.)

[1] Those of us in Massachusetts even get a Monday off around tax filing deadline time, which often results in getting an extra day to file because the IRS service center in Andover closes even though the USPS doesn't.

[2] The popper was less than $10 at my favorite French boutique. (It's spelled "Target", but it's pronounced "Tarzhay".) Unpopped kernels are somewhere around a buck a pound for Jolly Time or half that for the store brand. A two pound bag makes somewhere around 16 servings. Add spices to taste.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm not the world's biggest popcorn fan myself, but that does sound like a good use of resources.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I just found $500 that I had forgotten I had.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is taking "and then I found $5" a bit far.

[redbird]

How long had you forgotten it?

(I ask this as a person who did something very similar herself--and found it at a point when it was Very Useful Indeed.)

[timprov.livejournal.com]

A couple of months, I think.

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

We actually got a break this past weekend and it felt good to just relax a bit. Also, Amber got to see her favorite person "Gam-pa!" and her second favorite "Gramma!" Mom threatened to leave Dad behind next time... :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Gramma" sent me a picture. SOOOOO big!

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

I gave my students a "vice" tour of the museum, and talked about sex, intoxicants, and other vices through the ages.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

FTW

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh. (http://www.stereogum.com/archives/video/new-they-might-be-giants-video-mesopotamians.html) Well, OK, they amused me. Hope they can do the same for you. (Hope I'm not giving the link back to the person who gave it to me!)


Also, having tea with you was exceptionally fine, and I want to do that again soon. Which means I should e-mail you. ;-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. TMBG played that at the concert timprov and I and porphyrin's Mike went to last month. Am fond.

It was indeed fine to have tea with you, and I want to do it again soon, too, and e-mail is good. And also I have just sampled the first of the experimental chocolate walnut sea salt cookies, and it is the beginning of a thing, I think. The final form may be slightly different. But this was in fact a thing.