The Continuing Chronicle of a Well-Known Adventuress

If I had a quarter for every time THIS crossed my mind...

2008-05-09T15:38:35Z

more cat pictures

In Tornado Alley, there is no time for Oprah

2008-05-09T11:53:44Z

Hope my local f-list people weathered the storms last night. I was awake until 2 trying to decide if the tornado warnings were going to make it to me or not. Turned into a not. But this meant that I watched an awful lot of late night TV in nearly vain hope that the weather coverage would be adequate.

DC weather folks just don't get it.

TORNADOS are not to be fucked with. (And not only because the logistics of said fucking would be problematic at best...) I do not need live traffic updates at 0100 with camera feeds from an empty road while shoved into the corner is the miniscule radar picture showing unreadable details and a red splotch. Show me the affected counties, show me the storm path. DO NOT cut away so I can watch Oprah get off on standing on stage with Cher and Tina Turner. Do not cut away to Inside Edition for the Top Ten Buffest Hollywood couples. You DO NOT stop showing the weather updates until the fucking (or non-fucking) tornado is out of the decidedly fucked area.

Let's send all weather people for 3 years to Tornado Alley. Let's have them live through several real, mind-numbing F3, F4, or F5s. Let's see what happens when they can see the storm coming over the horizon and know that in a couple of hours the wrath of god is going to descend and there is NOTHING they can do about it but warn people. Somewhere where suddenly nobody cares about the camera on the overpass because you're too busy hoping your car doesn't come crashing into your living room while you are running into the basement with blankets, flashlights and a battery powered radio. Back home, we get live Weather Service updates even DURING the weather reports on the news. Because in Tornado Alley, it takes less than 60 seconds to lose your home, your car, your job, and your entire town.

Bet when they got back here, they would be a little more humble, a little more grateful, and a hell of a lot more thorough with the reports.

A day like every other

2008-03-25T09:33:42Z

see more crazy cat pics

Can I get an A-MEN!?

Don't worry, I'm safe!

2008-02-18T22:02:45Z

My new canister of fish food is "Sealed for your protection."

And really, that's all I need to know...

*headdesk*

BUT!! In late breaking news...

moar humorous pics

3 hours

2008-01-23T22:44:00Z

a 3 hour nap. 3 hours. 3. Hours.

Yes I needed the sleep

And this is EXACTLY why I so rartely do kareoke.

I am old and I need my naps.

Pointless post

2007-11-29T21:48:26Z

If a vamipre cuts her hair, will it grow back?

Discuss.

Posting because I haven't

2007-11-19T01:40:38Z

I haven't worked on NaNoWriMo. Not even a little. Next year I guess it is....

I haven't been able to find even one pair of dress shoes that are comfortable enough to make me stop wearing the boots I wear to work.

I haven't read most of the books I just bought.

I haven't been to France, except in my own head.

I haven't got a clue, a life, or a will.

I haven't got time for the pain.

I haven't got room for the guppies.

I haven't been skydiving with Elvis- not even once.

I have rhythm and music though, and a pretty good recipie for cheese and crackers.

Ghosts on tape!

2007-11-07T21:32:18Z

So Fox News evidently aired a story about a ghost caught on tape in a flowershop. Sorry I don't have a link, I'm sure my f-list knows how to do the googles, though. :)

Of course I clicked on it and tell me if I'm wrong- but doesn't it look a little more like a FLY ON THE LENS?

So, faulty wiring and a fly on the camera equals national news. While Pakistan (and now Georgia, according to yahoo) are going to hell in a handbasket.

Sheesh...Fair and (UN)Balanced...

overwhelming weekend...

2007-10-15T21:44:18Z

I am an introvert- every personality test I've ever taken pretty much proves that. So why am I being so social these days?

Friday night- Opera. La Forza Del Destino. Our Heavenly Father, please make the director who used overwhelming and badly animated projections on scrims in front of, above, and behind the singers, not to mention adding 30 minutes to the show with 6, 5 minute long unneeded scene changes (because the scenery was PROJECTED) and managed to choreograph the longest swordfight in history (up a mountain no less), wake up with rabid ferrets in his pants. Love, Aeonata. --P.S. Also remind the tenor to call upon his understudy if he is sick.

Saturday- A Day at the Races! I love Ankronism, and Nonsequitor stables! No love for Lycurgis or Doha. Evarh.

Saturday Night- A Prarie Home Companion. A childhood dream come true and there's not much more I can say about that.

Sunday- FOOTBALL!! The Ravens Beat the Rams in a Completely Expected Rout! 5 interceptions, 1 Touch down, and about a million field goals. Matt Stover is my new lover! Kissy Kissy Matty! *smooch*

Sunday night- CRASH...9 pm. Out like the Rams from the entire season.

Monday....oh yea...work....

NOM NOM NOM!!

2007-10-08T22:49:02Z

Yet another toy recall

2007-10-05T20:44:40Z

Discworld reading order

2007-10-01T22:11:08Z

Been between awake and asleep all day. Probably will have an early night, too. At least I don't hurt so much anymore but can't seem to keep the eyes open.

But for when I do...

From another discworld fan's blog. Best chart I've seen.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_5p1Zl2KrGZw/RwEhHny3BsI/AAAAAAAAABg/b5Q6YzmPAQQ/s1600-h/discworld-reading-order-guide-1-5.jpg

Oh this is too funy!

2007-09-22T12:00:52Z

But NOT SAFE FOR WORK....

LOL SNAIL?

2007-09-22T02:19:00Z

ROFLMAO

GIP and GLOLP

2007-09-18T01:44:12Z

I can has virus???

2007-09-13T23:21:37Z

Just went to icanhascheezeburger.com and every time I tried to click to a new page, I was asked by my computer if I wanted to download some random file. I'm gonna be ticked off if somone is fuxon wit mah cheezburgerz....

But...it's a prop!!!

2007-08-29T10:59:38Z

So evidently hollywood props are now accorded more honor and ceremony than visitng heads of state. That explains alot....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/nasashuttletolaunchlukeskywalkerslightsaber

sheesh...

Seems we're fresh out of gratitude...

2007-08-18T21:42:05Z

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5061221.html

A New Record

2007-08-08T22:10:54Z

So I'm sitting outside waiting for the furniture van to arrive with my new bed, and there's a young man standing at the door to get in. I'm just hanging out and he eventually comes over to ask if I have the card to get into the building. I reply that I do not, and he stares at me for a second. And then he says:

"I thought you were about 12 or 13 until you started talking."

Gee golly gee whiz...

Draco Malfoy as Hamlet

2007-07-02T21:21:46Z

GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO

go

Go see Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theatre. Draco Malfoy is terrific!

Ok, So it isn't really Draco, but my GOD that young man who plays the Prince has brought us a performance to be rivaled through the ages. It is a performance that only works in the context of this particular production- which is a much more rare feat than you might imagine. Set this in the 40's and he'da been smacked by his mother, set his performance in the "correct" era and he would have been so far out of place that you might as well break into HELLO DOLLY when the ghost reappears. But for this production: fabulous, amazing, drooooooollll... He is twitchy, neurotic, emo-esque, angst filled and powerful beyond belief. You could feel the hormonal/emotional/rational war going on within him- could feel the privledged life he had led, could see it not only in the staging and the set, but in his reactions to those around him. He was petulant, he threw honest to god tantrums. And he fucking NAILED "to be or not to be". I almost started to applaud when he was done, as if he had just sung an aria. And I suppose he had, at that.

And here's what I mean about Draco Malfoy: http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/photos.aspx?id=103

Also, get your season ticket to next year's shows. If you re under 35, you can get all 8 shows for $125. That's less than 20 bucks a show- that's almost the price of a movie- that's INFLUCKINGSANE!!

Total GIP

2007-07-02T16:40:11Z

Just found new icons to play with. Can't decide on a favorite, but for now, this one will do :)

jib jab and spartans

2007-06-27T14:36:50Z

Oh say can you see?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrh0DvlVQUg

and of course- the 305!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpa2Qplm8M

A couple of hours

2007-06-14T02:11:56Z

It is dark.
The power went out with the storm.
The battery back-up units have failed, one by one.
Joe started kicking the door again an hour ago- bang, bang, bang.
The door is starting to dent in the middle. Bang, bang, bang.
The office windows are plexiglass. I cannot get out.
I have no weapons with which to fight.
It is dark.

I wish I were alone...

BLIWTEOTW

So that's what he meant...

2007-06-13T21:22:42Z

Strange- things seemed to be so relatively calm today. My co-workers were silent- in fact, many of them weren't even in the office. As I am wrapping up my final days of employment, I especially enjoyed the solitude and the quiet. The only down side was when Joe came running in screaming something about brain-sucking monsters. But then, Joe has always had a wicked sense of humor. I told him to shut up, pushed him out of my office, locked the door, and continued on my project. I've only recently emerged from my self-imposed cloister to scrounge the internet...

Poor Joe. I'm guessing he's been brain-sucked by now. Certainly his cheeky hammering on the door has stopped. I'm too afraid to look out of the window. I'm glad, however, to see that at least some of my friends have made it. I hope the power holds out.

To my Faustus Freeks

2007-05-26T12:22:50Z

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thank you for your outstanding hard work, your amazing dedication in the face of every kind of adversity short of being savaged by lions, and most of all for one helluva show last night. The show is yours and you should all be very proud. I know I'm very proud of all of you- you can go to hell with me any day.