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also [Jul. 5th, 2009|08:08 pm]
This particular video has helped me through my darkest nights. May be slight exaggeration, but only slight.

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oh look I am alive [Jul. 5th, 2009|02:45 pm]
My apologies for the long absence - it's been hard recently to put life into words.

I vanished in May for a couple reasons, mostly related. We were subject to an external agency audit at work in June and I spent a good 2 weeks working 16+ hour days in preparation for it. Somewhere in there I realized that I had, over the past 6 years, developed the totally unconscious habit of opening a new tab in Firefox and checking my flist when I get overwhelmed & need a quick break. When this led to my getting in trouble for being on LJ 3 times in 2 hours on one particularly stressful day, I installed an addon for Firefox that allows you to define problematic websites and have them redirect to a stop page or Google or something like that. Not being allowed to open *.livejournal.com between the hours of 10 and 4 on weekdays has done wonders for my LJ addiction.

My car has cost me almost 2000 in repairs over the last 2 weeks and I am upset about that.

There is a sour, awful smell in my apartment. It's distracting.

I spent most of this weekend with The Boy. We were planning to go see the Pops and see the fireworks already when we got a call from his grandparents notifying us that (a) they were in town, (b) they had been invited into the state trooper friends&family section next to the Hatch Shell, and (c) they had room for the two of us if we cared to join them, which we did. So I met his grandparents (TERRIFYING), was closer to the Hatch Shell than the press box (AWESOME) and was 15 feet away from the Howitzers when they fired during the 1812 overture (HBASGHJGSJ AMAZING). Neil Diamond did an encore of "Sweet Caroline" when they cut to a commercial break and The Boy tickled me during each of the singalong parts, that bastard. We wound up walking home due to the ridiculous number of people on the trains. I miss him. Baawww.

Tomorrow, I fly to Houston, so I kind of need to get my ass up and start packing. Also take decongestants; a sinus headache keeps settling into my molars and it SUCKS.
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argh [May. 18th, 2009|01:52 pm]
Internet, I need help managing my taskbar. I do this every time. It is like a compulsion.

Tell me I am not the only one who does this )
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god I am always so tempted to email these people back with "wtf, hire a lawyer" [May. 17th, 2009|04:04 pm]
Dear Respectful,

Please let this letter not to bring confusion to you. I know that we have not met either before but hear me from the dept of your mind. It is circumstances that made to send this to you.
 
I will introduce myself first to you, My name is
Amoah Essien, I lost my mother, my hero and my lord Ms  Essien a year ago. She was poisioned to death by her associate in business. She formed a company by one Mr. Philip Brown who poisioned her only to take benefit of the multi million venture. He was arrested immedaitely my mother died and he entered an agreement with my mother's brothers that I and the immedaite younger brother of my mother will represent my mother's interest in the company.
 
After six months I was kicked out of the company because I said that we have to change the company's lawyer who I termed was part of the elimination of my mother. I did not know that they have changed all the company's document without my name appearing any where. I will have to let you know more detail on that but let me move to the point why I am contacting you.
 
I have been nick named bastard by my mother's relations, They have named me all source of names even calling me outcast because my mother is late, while my mother was the bread winner of the family. They have pushed me out of my mother's mansion and still want to eliminate my life.
 
I got through the records of my mother account books three weeks ago while crying and meditating, which I beleive was inspired by the spirit of God, I discovered that there is a huge sum of money she deposited in a bank, which is $9,800,000. The note attached to the deposit agreement she made with the bank indicated that, the money was to be used to purchase machinery for the establishment of a new company of her own.
 
Please all I need from you is to do all you can to help me to get this money out of the bank. I have been to the bank where this money is deposited immediately, and confirmed the account most deligently. The bank told me that my mother informed them that the money was to be remitted to her company's costumer account abroad, which her costumer will provide to them but since then they have never heard from her nor the costumer. Now my mother is late. I don't want the bank to know that my mother is late. I told them that she is ill and appointed me to represent her in her affairs.
 
(1).I want you to provide an account where the money will be remitted into as my mother's costumer.
(2).Make arrangement for me to leave here as soon as possible
(3).How much commission you will take for rendering the assistant?
 
My mother did not marry to any man, She had me as the only child while she was having an affair with the person that surpposed to be my father when she was 18 years and the man abandoned her and disappeared which forced her to remain single. Now I am 20 years and never saw my father for a day.I have no home now and my life is in danger. I don't have any one to run into. All the members of my mother family have turned their back on me because I demand for me right. They told me that I don't belong to the family. That I should go and look for my father, Whom I don't know. I have made trace to know my father without sucess. I want you to hear me from the inner most of your heart and accord me this help.
 
God will bless you for saving my life and future.

Best wishes,
Amoah Essien
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simple [Apr. 30th, 2009|11:36 pm]
Tomorrow I leave for a 10 day business trip, essentially leaving my comods over at [info]wow_ladies in the lurch. Sorry guys, I <3 you tons but I don't have any real control over this. :(

Relatedly, I have been averaging between 3 and 5 hundred emails a day this week on my dedicated LJ email account. If I ignored your comment, or your PM, it probably got lost in the wash. Thunderbird only groups emails in unhelpful bunches like "Today" and "Yesterday" and "Last week" (no 2 days ago? Shame), so I can tell you that today I got 232, Yesterday 332, and "Last Week" I got 1656. Since I've basically stopped interacting on LJ this week beyond reading the moderation queue, and checking out membership applications, this means that nearly all of those emails fell into one of those 2 categories. Insanity.

Right now it is 11:25 pm. I am, of course, at the office (where else?) setting up 3 laptops so they can.... sit... while I am out of the office. I have no idea why this must be done before I leave but they say it must, so whatever. (Here the author pauses to vet & admit two applicants).

It feels like all of my friends are having a hard time of it right now. I wish I could fix everything for everyone.
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oh holy shitkittens [Apr. 27th, 2009|05:12 pm]
I have received 631 emails since midnight. Which was only 18 hours ago.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 [Apr. 27th, 2009|01:41 am]
Omgggggggggggggggg

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Coralie! [Apr. 26th, 2009|11:03 pm]
She's Coralicious )
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hnerff [Apr. 26th, 2009|12:41 am]
Also, in banal news, the boy randomly mentioned a while ago that he's considered getting a SwagDog cap with his guild crest on it, because they've had that logo forever. So I got him one :) It came a lot earlier than they said it would / I expected, but the color of the logo was wrong-- disappointment. I put in a 'ticket' on their site explaining the issue and got an email back asking for a "clear picture" they can use to compare it to their art on file. So that's done and I am waiting to hear back.

Honestly, I hope this works out well because it's a really nice cap, all things considered. The detail is nice and crisp and clean and it's obviously a quality product except for the whole thread-color-mixup they have going for me here. :X
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sunburnt, windblown, sweaty & happy [Apr. 25th, 2009|11:52 pm]
Every once in a while something big will happen and it will cause me to stop writing in my LJ. I do this because I feel these events (a truly horrible business trip, an old friend's wedding) require a long and perfectly written entry, and I get performance anxiety and don't. Isn't that silly? So -

Last week I had a brutal business trip. It got extended, everything that went wrong could have, the only upside was that the food was ~amazing~. Also, travel - I miss travel. I need to do more of it, but I will and soon, so I'm not worried about that.

Last weekend one of my oldest friends got married and I was in the wedding. The bride was beautiful, the groom was bursting with pride, the rest of the wedding party looked absolutely amazing, the food was stellar, my hotel room had a jacuzzi in it (! but I attended the wedding alone, so while I did spend time hottubbing it was basically while I watched SVU), the alcohol was free-flowing and honestly the whole event was just HAPPY and AMAZING and it was so wonderful guys, I know I'm bawwwwing but it was incredible.

Today we had our first real hot day - it was in the 90s! - and while I was at my parents' trying to figure out what to do The Boy called hoping I had nothing to do. I drove out to his neck of the woods & we went to a local park & wandered some nature trails and navigated some big rocks (stationary) and swarms of cub scouts (so very not) until we overheated/I lost patience with my shoes, at which point we went for ice cream at a local farmstand-type place, which had many farm animals for me to fawn over. I have no idea why he puts up with me. It also had a minigolf course, which he trounced me at (note to self- don't date golfers) and then, not wanting the day to end but ready for some ~indoors time~ we hit the movie theater only to discover that we'd missed the first 20 minutes of anything we felt like seeing.

I didn't want to go. He didn't want me to go. So we talked and we stalled and we windowshopped (at Barnes & Noble, natch) and returned to our cars and stalled some more until we decided to just see the next showing of Obsessed, which stars Idris Elba looking NOTHING LIKE Stringer Bell (much to his detriment, imo), and was a lot of fun.

Now I am home - well, at mom & dad's - and guys, I just cannot stop beaming. I am sunburnt, and my hair is windblown and strawlike from all the time with the windows down and moonroof open, and I am sweaty and in bad need of a shower, but I just had a great day and this stupid entry is tl;dr and doesn't even come close to expressing that right now, in this moment, there's not much I could do to be happier.

Except shower. So I'm going to go do that.

<3
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AM COMPLETELY FUCKING FED UP [Apr. 2nd, 2009|02:10 pm]
Calling all techies (again) -

Does anyone have any recommendations for webhosts? I am so fucking sick of netfirms I can't even tell you. Their SMTP servers are down for the 3rd time in 3 days so we can't send email, and the test emails I've sent through other providers aren't going through so it looks like we can't receive right now either. I've been on hold with tech support for 15 minutes, and seriously I'm done.
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because I can't be arsed to write an entry that involves text [Mar. 20th, 2009|05:38 pm]
here are the shoes I am wearing today :) )
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:X [Mar. 19th, 2009|04:26 pm]
I curled my hair last night! )
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idle [Mar. 17th, 2009|12:45 pm]
I am trying to conceptualize losing $500,000/min in terms I can wrap my mind around. I am having difficulty doing this. An average house around here costs that much... but I cannot conceive of losing a house a minute, and for an extended period of time.
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/ [Mar. 16th, 2009|08:51 pm]
I had a lot of privilege checks today. It was exhausting and frustrating and embarrassing.

Now I am bored, lonely, and in pain.
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(no subject) [Mar. 15th, 2009|04:42 pm]
never ever taking percocet again
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuugh [Mar. 15th, 2009|01:49 pm]
Woke up, stretched, fucked up my neck. Again. Am on valium, toradol, percocet. World is fuzzy around the edges. Also pulsing.
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omg [Mar. 10th, 2009|12:15 am]



omggggggggggg
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OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE [Mar. 9th, 2009|01:18 pm]


HAVEN'T WE SUFFERED ENOUGH??
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Tomorrow- [Mar. 8th, 2009|08:42 pm]
Honey Cookies
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1/2 c. honey
1 egg
1 1/2 c. Gold Medal all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. Beat butter, brown sugar, honey and egg in a medium bowl on medium speed, scraping bowl constantly, until smooth. Stir in remaining ingredients.

3. Drop the dough by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

4. Bake until set and light brown around edges (surfaces of cookies will appear shiny), 7 to 9 minutes. Let stand 3 to 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet, then remove from cookie sheet with metal spatula onto a wire rack. Makes 36 cookies.


Note to self - halve recipe D:

Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe
1 cup confectioner's sugar
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavoring (almond flavoring is also good)

Stir sugar and milk together in a bowl until icing mixture is smooth; beat in corn syrup and vanilla until icing mixture is smooth and glossy in appearance. Add food coloring to desired shade. Ice cookie and set aside for the icing to harden.


Note to self - change vanilla flavoring to bourbon or whiskey.
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PSA [Mar. 6th, 2009|02:30 pm]
As some of you may or may not know, some LJ accounts (generally moderators of larger communities) are being targeted by russian hackers bent on getting people to click their keyloggers. In that vein, do not do not do not click on ANY links to starturl dot com.

At any rate, they are doing this by gaining control of old email accounts that are associated with your LJ username, generally hotmail. For this reason, it is incredibly important that you go here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/emailmanage.bml and double-check that you still have control of all the email accounts your LJ is associated with. I thought I was reasonably protected because all my LJ correspondence goes through my current LJ gmail account, but I discovered to my horror that I still had 4 other email accounts, none of which I still had access to (such as my college one, which has likely been recycled by now), that were still linked.

I'm also going through the communities I moderate. Some of them, like [info]ljforchoice, have 7 different personal email addresses on them, none of whom belong to current maintainers. If you maintain any communities, you should do the same for them.
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paging IT people [Mar. 3rd, 2009|02:01 pm]
What do you all know about the difference between Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium?

eta: reading laptop reviews is simultaneously hilarious and frustrating. If you have nothing constructive to say about your laptop, shut the fuck up. Hint: if your review reads like the following-
What's great about it: Everything
What's not so great: Nothing

"Everything about this computer is great. i have had it for about 3 days and i love it. i would really recommend this laptop to anybody. i have wireless Internet for it and that rocks."


you should shut the fuck up
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awesome txt exchange [Mar. 2nd, 2009|07:03 pm]
A - "How the hell can this grocery store not have any scallions?"
Me - "we should bomb it to the ground"
A (some time later) - "Normally I'd wholly agree. But I don't have a loyal carrier group in the north atlantic that can spare a bomber wing."
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my awesome subconscious [Feb. 28th, 2009|01:12 pm]
Every once in a while I have these dreams where I'm like, a superhero or just like this extraordinary person who has to fight the bad guys. And these dreams, even though they are action packed and generally intense, are not frightening at all because I am the Good Guy and thus I will win, no matter what.

Last night I was with a group of other girls who had broken out of prison or captivity or something else with me. We apparently had unlimited resources or something, a benevolent someone or other who gave us everything we needed. I was the driver, which made this the most awesome dream ever. We had to sacrifice the first Ferrari (I know, right?!) to throw the bad guys off our trail, but I was consoled by the second one.

The second one had machine guns and cannons that would flip up out of hidden compartments in the hood when I put a certain CD marked 'Death Metal' in the CD player.

Fucking lol.
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eep [Feb. 28th, 2009|12:44 am]
They definitely blew the vein in the back of my left hand. My whole hand is a giant purple bruise. It's kind of exciting-looking.
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afk [Feb. 25th, 2009|01:48 pm]
So I sprained my neck. That was fun. Highlights include the 5:30 am trip to the ER, where they loaded me up on IV morphine and valium (on top of vicodin I'd taken at home... I don't remember much of this period) and parked me in the trauma room until an actual trauma came in.

It took 3 tries for them to get the IV in - my veins weren't cooperating, and I think they blew the one in my left hand. I sobbed. I hate needles.

Then they sent me home with valium and percocet and rx-strength motrin. This was Monday, by the way, and today is my last day on the anti-inflammatory (not supposed to take it for more than 3 days.. I am panicking about this) and I refuse to take any more percocet. After the one I took on Monday afternoon I hallucinated and got paranoid and hysterical and sent several text messages to The Boy accusing him of not being real. Soooooo that's off the table.

Now I am at work for the first time and I tell you it is not going well. I am still on valium (I'm flashbacking to the DD post -- yes, concerned readers, I did get a ride to work this morning) and I've so far walked into 3 walls. One of my coworkers just gave me a glorious massage, the kind that turns you into puddles, so that was GREAT, and my orders today are basically "sit until I give you a very specific instruction." I can do this.

Not much else, though.

I am also on hiatus from modding wow_ladies until I am not on drugs. I feel this is best.
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oh and also this [Feb. 19th, 2009|02:33 am]
It is snowing (well, it was. now it is raining) and I finally got to test my car in snow, on hills.

OH MY GOD.

To say that car is useless in snow is to praise it beyond merit. It is USELESS IN SNOW. It will not go forward. It cannot get up even a minor incline (think... treadmill on just above the easiest setting) without prayer.

D:
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oh i fall behind [Feb. 19th, 2009|01:59 am]
So I haven't posted an actual legit update in forever and a half, mostly because I am made of suck and fail, amirite? I have also been quasi-afk from LJ recently. I'll get to that. I rambled. )
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OH YES [Feb. 8th, 2009|07:32 pm]
Also I bought the "Spice Girls - Greatest Hits" CD today.

My car just got a lot more awesome.
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man [Feb. 2nd, 2009|05:07 pm]
I keep trying to write this entry and falling into tl;dr territory. How do I condense it?

My uncle is trying to get me to buy his second car at below-market price. I've been on the fence, because this car is pricey as shit to maintain, and also because I have ONE CONDITION for the car I buy, which is that it must be stick shift, and this car, well... isn't.

But my uncle left today to spend 3 weeks in Colorado, so he gave me his car to test drive (for free) in the interim, partly because this car doesn't get driven enough as it stands to keep its battery charged (uncle has a Z4, and if you have a Z4 why would you drive anything else), and party I think because he figures 3 weeks with this car will be more than enough time for me to fall in love with it.

I think he's right. )

All I can think about today is how soon I can get back behind the wheel.
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lol [Jan. 25th, 2009|05:04 pm]
WoW + Xzibit macros = )
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how to stave off a cranky mood [Jan. 20th, 2009|11:12 pm]
Step 1: hook enormous gorgeous tv & G15 keyboard (<3) up to computer
Step 2: Load up Half Life 2
Step 3: Kill things



It works :)
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(no subject) [Jan. 20th, 2009|04:17 pm]
oh jesus fucking christ

I need a breathalyzer for my computer.
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VROOM [Jan. 18th, 2009|10:38 pm]


I THINK IM GONNA DO IT
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lol [Jan. 18th, 2009|05:00 pm]
I just got the best text message in the history of text messages.
Barnes and noble was closed but by chance or providence another bookstore nearby was open. My primary mission is complete. But the loathsome howl of a distant weresnowmoose forces a hushed solemnity on the streets. And more dire still are the deep things stirring in the slushy puddles... Wish me luck.


I HAVE THE BEST FRIENDS EVER Y/Y
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WHY IS IT NOT JULY YET [Jan. 16th, 2009|12:02 pm]
Internet, I am glad I do not live in Maine. It was -50 in Big Black River today. This breaks state records.

At least it is nominally above 0 here.
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PSA [Jan. 12th, 2009|09:17 pm]
I am a clever girl and left my only cell phone charger at my apartment, which I will not have access to for several more days. I tried to swing by my car earlier tonight and grab my car charger but I wasn't able to find it :( So ultimately if I haven't memorized your number (and let's not kid ourselves, if I am not related to you by blood I have not memorized your number), I can't contact you.

In other news, my daddy is working on talking me into a Miata. I am easy to persuade.
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what the fuck, internet [Jan. 10th, 2009|11:52 pm]
It is a small motherfucking world, it is.
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lol! [Jan. 9th, 2009|06:08 pm]
sometimes I fucking love being a mod
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nnnnnnrgh [Jan. 9th, 2009|12:13 pm]
Ok, so, my car has developed this nasty problem of occasionally not going into gear at all. The first time this happened I panicked (understandable!) and took the car to a garage a couple blocks from where it happened. The next morning I called and they told me they could not reproduce my issue and that there was nothing wrong with my car. ...Right. So I reclaimed it.

Then it happens again, and again, and folks let me tell you it is scary to not be able to make your engine engage, so I took it to MY garage, where it is now.

I called this morning.

I need a new clutch.

He quoted me $700 and mentioned it would be like 6 hours of labor, and you know that sounds an awful lot like $900 bucks to me.

I just looked up the Kelley Blue Book value of my car.

...It is worth $213.

So I'm having a good day. I believe this weekend I will be shopping around for a new car.
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INTERNET I NEED HELP THIS IS SERIOUS [Jan. 9th, 2009|02:00 am]
Poll #1327933 D:
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What should my next project be?



I CAN'T DECIDE. DISCUSS.
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(no subject) [Jan. 9th, 2009|01:30 am]


Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

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Guys I can't work out what I got wrong and it is BOTHERING me.
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lol! [Jan. 7th, 2009|03:43 pm]
So... who else was just added as a maintainer of [info]liberal?
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argh [Jan. 6th, 2009|05:08 am]
So this is the 3rd night in a row I have been up until 5 am. I need to learn me some common sense, esp since I HAVE WORK TOMORROW.

Or I need to pull an allnighter but I have jury duty on Wednesday (unless when I call later today they let me out of it, which I kinda doubt).

:(
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(no subject) [Jan. 2nd, 2009|06:07 pm]
I think I finally need a filter for my friendslist. It's just a wall of [info]wow_ladies and [info]sf_drama and [info]bakebakebake today, and it feels just... impenetrable. D:

Part of that could be the fact that I have been cleaning this fucking apartment for like 4 hours now to no avail whatsoever. Well, ok, there's less packing material on the floor. HOW DOES IT GET THIS MESSY. All I want to do is veg out on the couch and play Nintendo :(
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(no subject) [Jan. 1st, 2009|12:35 am]
happy new years internet!!!!!!!

champagne is so gross D:
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relief [Dec. 30th, 2008|11:10 pm]
On my way home tonight I started smelling something burning, like BURNING, and I started freaking out because there weren't any cars ahead of me I could blame it on and as much as I like to joke about getting a new car I am really very happy with Gracie not spending more money. I even turned down the volume on the radio so I could smell better (why do I do this? every time, I do this) but then I turned onto Allston St and HELLO, FIRETRUCKS.

It's kind of sad how much better someone's apartment being on fire made me feel. D:
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@[info]kryptongirl [Dec. 29th, 2008|04:42 pm]
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guys I don't get it [Dec. 29th, 2008|12:21 pm]
If you are smart enough to find and follow instructions on how to make colloidal silver off the internet, how are you not smart enough to discover that actually taking the stuff will turn you blue?

eta: LOOK AT THE COMMENTS
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mrrrr [Dec. 28th, 2008|01:11 pm]
I had a fabulous Christmas. I hope everyone had a similar holiday experience :)
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