serendipitous

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. I'll get to thanking all of you personally today if I can, but I wanted to say it here first. You all are excellent people and you've made my birthday something wonderful.

today's clickies are brought to you by dolphingirl, who is generally marvelous, and adularia, who is gorgeous, smart, an excellent kisser and very sexyhandy with a toolbelt besides. (there's something about girls with tools and you can take it any way you like.)

romance can exist in long term relationships. i don't know, tallin, do we have romance? <3

online pastry chef. fabulous blog about what it says on the tin there.

rescue called off for porpoise because the porpoise is fine. happy story! it's always nice to hear about animals that are just fine. <3

temperature rise may cause west antarctic thaw. *worry*

does religion lead to more aggressive medical care? interesting.

robot submarine searches under antarctic ice shelf.

i have two cats right beside me (neko is cuddled up to my hip; velvet is washing neko.)

i have two questions that are occupying my mind at the moment:

1. i still have a spot in the breads and pastry program at the local community college.

pros: very nearby (like, five minutes as the wheelchair rolls, two minutes on the bus, fifteen if I'm having to walk it because I'm a slow walker). would be great fun, is not a ridiculous expense, may be able to get monies because am gimpy displaced homemaker. marketable skill. job experience. only just over a year's worth of commitment. (about fifteen months.)

cons: eventual jobs sometimes require heavy lifting which I am only sometimes able to do. lots of early morning classes (but the afternoons are free - that balances out.). by early i mean they start at 8AMish. pain issues sometimes cause early morning difficulties (but i do have time to sleep later on and also time to switch my schedule; i am sleeping better lately and that's helphing my quality of life/pain issues - again balances out)

i'm leaning towards 'i would like to if it's financially feasible but i'm worried about the pain issues putting a dent in it' thing. thoughts/suggestions/notions/etc etc?

2. i need my hair cut, seriously. it's currently a shaggy grown-out bob haircut that ends up just at chin level, but it's messy and i constantly look like i have bedhead.

want to do something drastic to it. am thinking about cutting it off at earlobe level, curving up at the back of the neck and shaving underneath.

( you can see the sideish of my head in this photograph. )

music to make out to

geekchick has provided me with this important information: the decemberists are at sxsw and are doing a live webcast of their new album tonight. the only drawback is that it's at 1AM EDT (10 PM PDT) but some people may well be up; i'm going to try to be. If you miss it all of their NPR stuff is archived here. hannahrorlove and I listened to their last webstreamed concert together. It's good stuff.

it's kind of hard to describe what they're actually like: my best guess is 'historical literary-allusion cheerfully macabre folktale-classical indie with a good beat and a pound of Lewis Carroll's favorite hallucinogenics stirred in' but hopefully others will leave their own descriptions in the comments. if you're going to take the reccomendations of an autistic seven year old, they're one of the boy's favorite bands.

twits

( all back here. )