Apparently I am sane and normal, with an added dose of surreal. Ha.

I took The Golden Compass daemon matching test.  My results?

"Your profile reveals that you are: Softly spoken, shy, passive, flexible, depdendable.  You are therefore matched with the Aeschylus Daemon. Your Deamon Aschylus is one of 5197 crow Daemons within the total Deamon popiation of 126699. Aeschylus is a male Daemon, as human and Daemon pairs ( Read more... )

Vacuuming has always been the chore I hate most. I would rather scrub toilets.  I would rather wash floors (sometimes I actually mop the kitchen without first vaccuuming it). I would rather clean up after the dog.  I think it's my dust allergy and aversion to loud noises, in combination, but whatever it is, I hate vacuuming ( Read more... )

I feel very Donna Reed-ish today - I am making French Onion soup, just blocked a sweater I am knitting (I may put up pictures later, since it looks like fairies armed with shiny sewing pins have captured an enemy), and will be altenately working on my thesis and pushing the vaccum cleaner around. I even have Betty Rubble's hair!

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Went in to my office for the first time this semester today.  Picked up my teaching evaluations from last semester (they liked me! they really liked me! *squee*), checked in with my advisor (who plans to read my thesis "this week, definitely," making it unlikely I get to defend before TribalCon *boo, hiss*), and had a series of questionable ( Read more... )

I'm grounded ( Read more... )

My inner brat is playing a new game, noting who seems to realize that, for the first time ever, they are seeing me without glasses ( Read more... )

I am now almost a week out from my LASIK surgery, and am loving the results.  Being able to see is just! so! exciting!

I have worn glasses everywhere but bed or underwater since I was eight years old - I showered in them, wore them to swim in the ocean, did Aikido rolls with them on, and took them off only for bed or activities which involved ( Read more... )

Best line from my sent-mail folder:  ". . .when you have the attention span of a roller derby squirrel on a sugar high. . ."

I stumbled across that while searching for an old message with a login code I needed.   It made me laugh.    (And the person I originally sent it  to reads this, Hi! I hope you're as amused as I am!).