I just got back from the my first tour of the woods this year. I was looking for bluebells, and found pansies and irises and wild herbs. The sky was slate stormy, but still. The redbuds are blooming, and creeping out of the creek banks onto the roads. The ivy is already clambering up them, Read more >>

1) I’ve lost ten pounds, and it was easy. In fact, I’ve eaten a lot of tacos, pizzas and burritos in the last month. Maybe I’ll cut back on those a wee bit and see where it takes me. 2) I’m going to SCHOOL in the fall, which means someone is going to be GRADING Read more >>

New design is up at Brianna.org, including eight years of design archives. New gallery too. It’s kind of ugly right now because it’s night time, but the early morning is the best time to catch Brianna.org = and on April 1st, the tree will blossom.

You will be relieved to know that shortly after this, my head fully inflated and popped my ears back into place. There are several more pictures in the same series with various other facial expressions, but really, this is the look I hope I will someday pass on to my kids. (Don’t worry, my face Read more >>

Over the cubicle wall: “Brianna, have you seen that movie?” “Which movie?” (I had been reading some documentation and ignoring the chatter) “Along Came Polly. Philip Seymour Hoffman is in it.” “No, I haven’t seen it – I love him, though. Have you seen him in Lebowski? He always seems to play the straight man.” Read more >>

Since I only ever record the disturbing dreams here, I thought I’d post these two from this morning. First dream – I am outside the apartment complex where I grew up, walking around the neighborhood with J. and someone else, on a technicolor sunny day. At the corner where I used to meet the bus Read more >>

My evening alone turned into a weekend alone, so for tonight’s solitary dinner I have merlot, chicken stuffed with pesto and feta (reduced fat!) and sun-dried tomato risotto. From a box, but hey. Tonight, I hope to complete my last portfolio for school. I didn’t get any of the other stuff on my list done, Read more >>

This morning I lazed in bed until ten. J. is at his brother’s house for an all night marathon NASCAR-LAN party, and I have the house to myself. When I finally got out of bed (the cat was very insistent, even though I had fed him breakfast at 7:30, little varmint) I immediately started working Read more >>

Well, I’m on my way to the bank to make a deposit on my tuition. 2500 Euros. It is JUST like me to go to a foreign school on the US dollar – eesh. This feels like a big moment. Something I’ll be glad I earmarked for later.

I think this has been a good week. My head is spinning, but I think things are good. Had a bad week at The Office, with some anxiety and not wanting to start projects for fear of never finishing them (scientists like to call that effect “shock treatment” when performed on rats. Middle managers call Read more >>