minervacat: (don't call me bones)
i had a cavity filled this morning, near the back on my lower left jaw, and oh, frell, does my whole face hurt, still. all the cavities i've had filled before this have been on my upper jaw, and none of them have left me with active muscle and jaw pain like this. *whines*

in other news, i made the most delicious meatballs in the history of the universe for dinner tonight. i know you're going to look at the recipe and say, beer and hot 'n' spicy ketchup, really?, but i swear, they were so delicious i would like to go eat all the leftovers now. except that i'm full, and my teeth hurt. so i share the recipe, which is from a "cook with beer!" cookbook that [livejournal.com profile] kickthebeat and i bought a couple of months ago. it requires a slow cooker/crock pot, so if you don't have one, you will be out of luck, but if you do, i totally recommend this recipe. these meatballs are amazing.

hot and spicy meatballs )

and finally, bones! bones is totally my happy non-fannish tv place these days; i've read some booth/brennan and some angela/jack, but i don't really feel the need to read fic for this show, or be otherwise fannish about it. it gives me everything i need (except a girlfriend for zach! i want zach to have a girlfriend) in text, and i'm not really left with a desire to be fannish about it. BUT STILL, LET US DISCUSS THE AWESOMENESS. consider there to be spoilers through tonight's episode in the comments.
Music:: and all the while i'm dreaming of the ballad for my one true love
minervacat: (found out the hard way you can't)
dear internets, here is a helpful hint for you in the future: when someone with a visible tattoo asks you to stop touching their tattoo, regardless of where said tattoo is, the correct response is to stop touching their tattoo immediately. asking "why?" is not the correct response. continuing to touch their tattoo is not the correct response.

if i say to you, "stop touching my tattoo, please," STOP TOUCHING MY FUCKING TATTOO. (the word tattoo has ceased to have any meaning to me. tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo.)


i am going to go watch friday night lights now.
Mood:: 'annoyed' annoyed
Music:: Sleep -- My Chemical Romance -- The Black Parade
minervacat: (is this batting practice?)
happy birthday, [livejournal.com profile] fitofpique! i hope your day is wonderful, full of chocolate and alcohol and naked boys. i love you muchly and miss you lots. ♥

in which i obsess about obsessing, rhapsodize about the piven, and confess to a small problem involving an inability to stop downloading bootlegs from archive.org )

anyway. thursday. thursday, thursday, thursday. today? sucks. it's hot, and work is boring, and i would demand a do-over on this week, except that this week has been a) hot and b) boring and c) sucky, and i don't want to relive that. instead, have a top five list, spawned indirectly by a conversation with pru last night: top five books you "should" have read but haven't. classics. or not classics. whatever. fair game includes things you started but couldn't or didn't finish. you know the drill.

my list:
1. ulysses, james joyce. i was an english major. i should have read this. i haven't, because fact: i think james joyce sucks. and the man didn't know a full stop from a hole in the ground, jesus christ.

2. wicked, gregory maguire. i am sorry, apparently this is excellent, people who know my love for retold stories tell me i will love this, but i think the man cannot write a lick and i have never managed to finish this book.

3. stranger in a strange land, robert heinlein. i love scifi. i have never made it further than three pages into this book without falling asleep.

4. look homeward, angel, thomas wolfe. maybe not a "should have" for everyone out there, but it's a classic of north carolina literature and, you know, if i'd gone the english phd way instead of the library science ms/info science phd way, i'd have ended up writing about some aspect of literature of the american south. so it's a travesty, really, that i haven't read this. but. well. i fell asleep in the middle of page 41 this morning.

5. walden, henry david thoreau. (eta: HA, not emerson! also, i suck.) uh, do i have to give my english BA back now?
OKAY, NOW YOU GO. come on, all of you who've held out on dan brown! fly your flags high here! (seriously. i read the da vinci code, and that is four hours i would like back, please. if you haven't read it, i want to know so i can praise you for not wasting your fracking time.)

(also, in terms of "should have", i think that sars' essay book smarts is one of the best things i've ever read about should have versus wasting your time on stuff that sucks. and yes, of course, i know: who decides what sucks? this is a top five that's open for much interpretation, play it however you want to read it. okay? okay.)

finally: i have some big, big love for the tarheel baseball team today, because last night they advanced to the championship series in the college baseball world series for the first time ever, and it was all because of a play at the plate, made by an adorable, sweet-tempered, thoroughly mediocre catcher. ♥
Mood:: 'restless' restless
minervacat: (flunking basic social awareness)
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 07:12pm on 29/11/2005 under
this is what the inside of my brain looks like:
hungry hungry hungry need a cigarette john blowing rodney in the jumper bay i wonder if i could justify only using livejournal polls for my masters thesis research rodney fucking john in the biologists' labs because the biologists aren't really scientists according to rodney folksonomies everyone sucks but me controlled vocabularies hungry hungry josh lyman doesn't get nice things but sometimes he gets sam hungry cigarette cigarette THE HAIR OMG will my pride survive if carolina loses to illinois on tuesday night hungry cigarette hungry user developed folksonomies cigarette cigarette cigarette porn john kissing rodney with his hands shoved down the front of rodney's pants the effects of community interaction on controlled vocabularies oh my god i hate this class so much THE HAIR OMG oh my god i want to take a nap oh my god i need a drink or i am going to punch someone in the head hungry hungry hungry cigarette hungry porn.
so now you know.

also, oh my god, I HATE THIS CLASS SO MUCH.
minervacat: (they say with every broken heart)
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 11:00am on 18/11/2005 under
i'm running on three hours sleep and i'm so loopy and high on harry potter that i FELL OFF THE COUCH trying to write an email to [livejournal.com profile] insidian, but i felt that you all needed to know two important things:
  1. the dmv traumarama that has been going on for ALMOST TWO MONTHS NOW? is finished. i have north carolina plates (er, plate) on my car, i passed the inspection, HOORAY.
  2. according to good and reliable sources, anderson cooper is gayer than a treeful of parakeets. like, seriously. gay gay gay. anderson cooper. gay. discuss. (not too heatedly.)
thus concludes my adventures in dmv shenanigans and gossiping about anderson cooper. now i get to go have lunch with [livejournal.com profile] resmin and do homework with april, who is resolutely holding out on getting a livejournal, but i promise to break her sooner rather than later.
Mood:: 'giddy' giddy
Music:: Heart - Stars - Heart
minervacat: (never could get the hang of thursdays)
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 05:27pm on 15/09/2005 under
with re: my on-going sink shenanigans: MY SINK, IT DRAINS! IT DOES NOT SMELL BAD! IT IS FREE OF ROTTING FOOD! EVERYONE CELEBRATE!
Music:: I'm Drinking in My Dreams - Mike Doughty - Fox Theater
Mood:: 'excited' excited
minervacat: (noisiest cat on the planet)
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 03:18pm on 28/08/2005 under
math for new apartments1: vacuum cleaner + icat = instant hilarity.

old apartment: hardwood floors. new apartment: carpet. icat: previously unexposed to vacuum cleaners.
minervacat: (ignorance compared to bliss)
It's not really fall until I have radiator burns on my ass from climbing out of the shower at the wrong angle and running into the radiator in the bathroom, because I am nothing if not a clumsy moron first thing in the morning.

Which is to say, as of today, it's officially fall by my count. *facepalm*
minervacat: (the bitch [by circe_tigana])
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 11:09am on 14/06/2004 under
The button on my pants - which was, admittedly, held on literally by a thread - just popped off. I have stapled my pants together so as to avoid any embarrassing pants-falling-down-in-the-office incidents.

How I'm going to use the bathroom with my pants stapled shut is still a question, though.
Mood:: 'giggly' giggly
minervacat: (waterhouse)
posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 12:48pm on 23/05/2004 under
The iCat just flew around the room at top speed, unplugged the cable box and then ran headfirst straight into the living room window, which was closed.

He is so totally my cat: a complete and utter spaz.

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