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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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theferrett
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12:31p
Once Again, The Real World Disappoints
A man called Usain Bolt is breaking world records. And yet he has not yet a) donned a spandex costume,and b) found a way to use his fantastic sprinting powers to fight crime.
The man's name is "Bolt," for God's sake! In the crappiest Marvel comic, the man would already have his girlfriend stuffed into a refrigerator, found that with great speed comes great responsibility, and faced down Dr. Doom. Yet all the man does is, you know, run fast.
What a world, what a world.
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kyoht
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10:14a
More WoW progression.
Killed Leo last night. We're gonna poke our noses into Hyjal on Sunday.
( Kill Shot )
Painter and I had a disagreement, so we weren't talking to each other for a few days. But I'm willing to wipe the slate clean and start a new.
Life lesson - when in doubt, draw aye-ayes.
I wonder if I'm allowed to make a Death Knight on the beta server if my hubby already made one? Is it restricted to one per server? I wanna try one. :B
Edit: Answered my own question. My Deathknight is a big beefy male orc named Warg. XD Hopefully I'll be able to try him out this weekend.
current mood:  awake
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[ thebatsmeow ]
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5:40p
Ugly leather vest
Oh wise shitsters,
I have a dear male friend who insists on wearing the fugliest leather vest from the 1980s. He thinks it looks good. I think it makes him look like Freddy Mercury.
Not only that, but the leather is fugly. I think it was made from the skin off a bull's bullocks.
What can I do to convince him that the 80s are long gone?
Thank you,
Mrs. Bats
p.s. he has a Bee Gees CD in his car.
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ursulav
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12:01p
Dream Theatre
Unexpected stress led to a night of raging nightmares. We hit all the usual themes--the Thing That Won't Die, no matter how many times you stab it/shoot it/tie it to the railroad tracks*, followed by the late-for-a-class-I-haven't-taken-all-semester, (that one worked out well, as I explained that I'd been sick and apologized, whereupon the professor hired me to work on his paleontology dig in the playground, where he was disinterring a T-rex.) Unfortunatey the T-rex fell by the wayside as we were attacked by shape-changing cthulhoids that threw fireballs. I didn't bother to try to fight that one out, I just ran. Even my subconscious knows you don't mess with Cthulhu.
Oddly enough I got away, skipping the classic being-chased theme of nightmares. That was something, anyway.
By this point it was 4 AM and I woke up in a cold sweat, staggered into the bathroom, (turning all the lights on as I went) staggered back to bed, fell immediately back into anxious dreams, and found myself in an underground set of tunnels, in a large room with a stone pool, fed by an iron grate.
There was a god there. I'm not sure who it was, but he was definitely a god.** He handed me a metal tray and said "Now you must do Tefnut's job." ***
"Whuh?" I said, with my usual brilliance.
Brightly colored--things--like beads or jewels or something, but alive--started coming in waves out of the grate. I jumped in the pool and started washing them onto the tray, then dumping them over the lip of the pool onto dry ground. It was important that I get them all out of the water--they were like children or souls or anyway something Symbolically Significant (although probably the fact that I was playing Bejeweled before bed was rather MORE significant.). I remember that I wasn't panicking, though--just had to get 'em all out of the water, no need to freak out, work quickly and calmly and it'll all get done.
When it was over, he embraced me, and said a few things that I wish I could bloody well remember--something about strength, and names, and then something about rose and soapwort and grooves, (which probably proves that one should not take this sort of thing particularly seriously, or else that the spirit of the divine is exceedingly concerned with my bathing products) and then I woke up to find both cats on me, doing the you-gonna-feed-us? dance.
Huh. I am being very flippant because it's easier, but it felt like something, anyway. Haven't had one like that for awhile.
Weird.
*I hate this one. I know a fair number of people, often women, who cannot fight back against foes in their dreams. I don't know if it's a sign of a robust psyche or not that I can fight back just fine, it just doesn't seem to slow 'em down much. Mind you, all I had was a pair of manicure scissors, which aren't much in the way of armament...
**And had been hitting the gym quite a lot, too. Human head, though. My brain defaulted to Apollo, but that was probably 'cos of the abs. Which I suppose would be Horus if we're sticking to one pantheon instead of mixing and matching. My subconscious mind has no respect for cultural continuity.
***I knew Tefnut was Egyptian, but there memory failed. According to wikipedia, she's the goddess of water and fertility. (She better not get any ideas on that latter front...)
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theferrett
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11:01a
Flu, Stupid
When you have not one, but two jobs that involve relying on your brainpower to work, having a stupid flu is not fun. When I get sick, my brainpower tends to shrink rapidly, and having a head cold for four days running has impeded my progress.
How dumb am I?
- I could not watch "The Spiderwick Chronicles" because I was having difficulty following the plot.
- It took me (no joke) three hours to figure out how to do a proper three-table grouped join in mySQL - admittedly, there were one or two things that made it slightly tricky, but what should have been a fifteen-minute conundrum became the goddamned Da Vinci Code.
- It took me an hour to post my Barack Obama post the other day, and at the time I posted it I wasn't even sure if it made any sense. (I still don't.)
- I spent four hours staring at my screen, revising, to produce 800 words of revised story, and I don't even know if they're the right words. (This may be par for the course for many slower writers, but I'm known for my speed.)
I am trying to struggle along on fewer pistons now. I have become Simple Jack, and the slowness of my head movies makes my eyes rain. (And of course, what am I trying to red to educate myself in my sickness? Building Scalable Web Sites. Yes, that's going swimmingly.)
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(22 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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[ trunks_07 ]
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9:07p
Blackberry Lemon Pound Cake
Have some extra summer berries you need to put to use? This is the perfect recipe for exactly that. This recipe produces such a moist, flavorful cake that it tastes like it's filled with lots of butter and sugar but it comes from Cooking Light magazine, so it's better for you than other desserts!
For the recipe and more pictures, stop by my baking blog.
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[ rinabeana ]
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8:25p
Apple Cinnamon Scones
Yeah, I'm still going nuts with my apples. I found this recipe and decided to modify it slightly to incorporate my new favorite, cinnamon chips. In hindsight, I'd make another change or two, but overall, I think they turned out well. I keep making scones and freezing them. One of these days I'm going to have all my lovely female relatives over for a high tea...
( Apple cinnamon scone recipe and pics )
current mood: pleased
current music: Olympics (women's diving)
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