Laurabelle’s Blog

Yesterday evening Jeff and I went to the debut performance of a play called The Commoner King, written by two SCA members named Owen the Merry and Finn au Neill. We went because it was supposed to be funny, and because there was a feast beforehand and I wanted to use my new feast gear [...]

So I found out that LCSH actually has a heading for Melton family (as well as many other families in fact, as long as they've had something written about them), and of course I had to look it up in WorldCat to see what's there. My cousin some-number-of-times-removed, J.V. Melton, wrote a book called The [...]

This week has had its good points and its bad points. The bad is, naturally, the most spectacular. Seattle got a lot of rain this week, and its impact on the drainage system was compounded by the fact that the rain knocked the last leaves off the trees and into the sewers and blocking them. [...]

I feel like I'm slipping through the days by the skin of my teeth. I'm getting just enough done but never enough to make me really happy about my productivity. It's frustrating. Take today, for example. I've done almost no homework (skimmed through a couple of articles for Wednesday, that's all), but I did a [...]

Weather’s been nonsense recently. Buckets of rain while I was out of town, then a couple of weeks of cold like midwinter and dry as Nevada. Now it’s cloudy, gray, and pitch-black at three in the afternoon. Brr.
Okay, that last one is a teensy bit of an exaggeration. But man, I felt like I needed [...]

I've got a new format for my blog-entry footer: [ Posted at $TIME | Permalink | Comment | Filed under $CATEGORIES | TrackBack $URLLINK ($URL) ] I made the change mostly because I noticed that I get very few trackbacks, and it occurred to me that maybe it was because my trackback-inna-link implementation is non-standard and lacking [...]

Yesterday Jeff and I made meatloaf, and it was quite frankly the best meatloaf I've ever had in my entire life. It wasn't terribly special in terms of what we put in it (ground beef, onions, a couple of eggs, ketchup, a little bit of spices), but it smelled heavenly in the oven, and it [...]

A few minutes ago, when Jeff and I walked in front of the HUB (the UW student center, for those who don't know), there was a table with a sign on it saying Are you sick of Religion? and a lot of people around it. So Jeff and I went over and asked what they [...]

Laura: I don't have any more space to put all my library books! Jeff: I think putting you in a library is like leaving a heroin addict alone in the evidence room. 'Nuff said.

This morning when I walked in to work, the grass was fuzzy and silver-white. Even the wider leaves on the bushes by the sidewalk sported a delicate sparkle. It made me glad that I got up and came into work earlier than usual, because I’m sure the frost would have burned off by the time [...]