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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

a list of mostly unrelated things.

  • i seem to have entered one of shannon’s peanut butter phases. i have never had peanut butter phases before - in fact, most of my food phases are brought on by finances, like the beans-and-rice phase or the ramen phase - but the other morning i was dreaming about peanut butter and now i can’t stop eating it. the weirdest part is that i usually eat adams (natural, just peanuts and salt, oily when you open the jar, etc etc) but in the dream, and since, it has been crappy plastic peanut butter all the way.
    yum.
  • i was going to go to the gym this morning, for the first time this term (i am bad), but for some unclear reason my left wrist is really sore when i move it. i decided it would be best not to try to lift with a sore wrist so i stayed home to eat bagels with peanut butter instead.
  • had never been to an all-ages show before but i went to two this weekend. whee. first was clem snide, who i adore. and yes, his name really is eef, and it really is pronounced “eef.” i know because when i said “eef!” he said “yes?” i hadn’t thought that far ahead so i just said “um, hi?” and he said “hi. that’s my long-lost sister! my name is fun to say.” and then he sang a little song for me. i am pretty sure he was making fun but that’s why i like the band so much - because of the making fun - so it was ok. the other show was two gallants, to which we went because friends had raved about them extensively. i liked them but i was not really in a show-going mood, especially when it involved semi-punky teenagers with silly haircuts. they were good but i am in love with eef so it didn’t really compare.
  • i finally got thunderbird on the computer at home (though i still use ssh at work etc., of course). and i love it. it hasn’t got as many fun extensions and themes as firefox, but it does do RSS feeds, which i had never figured out before. so now i have RSS and it’s such fun. i had hoped it would make me spend less time on the internet because i wouldn’t be sitting there refreshing the pages i read, but instead it has made me like to read more pages since they are easier now. for example, i never read fark because i hate all the people in the comments, but now i just get the link with the funny headline, and i can go straight to the story and not be tempted to click on the comments. so now i am reading fark, which i never did before. (speaking of which, fark brought me this idaho state house bill that i absolutely adore.)
  • i have a big list of stuff i have to accomplish today so i am off to, um, accomplish stuff. whee.

    (song: “don’t be afraid of your anger,” clem snide)

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    but i won’t even look

    Monday, November 1st, 2004

    it’s winter again. it’s cold and blowy and grey and last night it smelled like winter. but it was clear the night of the eclipse, which was so neat.
    i am indignant and offended because of two things:
    my databases professor asked me in class (as an example for the discussion about browsers and servers and whatnot) what browser i was using, saying “i’ll ask you because i know he’s using OS X and i bet i know what you’re going to say.” when i responded “firefox,” (with an implicit “duh”) he was surprised and said “oh, i thought you’d say internet explorer.” wtf. what does this mean? do i present myself to the world like a person who’d use IE? how can i change this about myself? i do not want to be perceived as an IE user.
    (yay, browser snob!)
    also, though i have read it occasionally before, i have just recently become a real fan of metafilter (especially ask metafilter, which is digital reference! yay! reference without actual patron interaction is good!), but apparently i am not allowed to be a member! the registration page says registration will be open again someday, but i hear it’s said that for quite a while. i take this as a personal affront. i don’t want to post very often, but sometimes there are questions i can answer! it’s for my professional development! let me in!

    (song: “if you don’t think it’s right,” chuckanut drive)

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    i’m so tired, and i wish i was the moon tonight

    Friday, September 17th, 2004

    if i can figure out all her wacky slang, i will be translating some comics for madame fa. i think her drawings are adorable.
    lately my laptop has decided to refuse to recognize when it’s plugged in, so all it does is drain the battery forever and not recharge. right now it has only enough battery to turn on, tell me it’s about to die, and turn itself back off again. awesome. it is mostly just an annoyance at the moment, and not an actual problem yet, except that there’s a thank-you letter on there that i have to submit to the ischool awards committee by the 24th, or i won’t get my $3000 scholarship. while $3000 won’t keep me in school another term, it will keep me housed and fed for more than a term, which will be nice. with that and the work study i got, i should be able to stay in school through winter term.

    (song: “i wish i was the moon,” neko case)

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