It all started when Bob joined the Facebook app Bitstrips and started making cartoons.


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Plotting my next fish tank. It's years in the future, so it can be as big or as little as I want it to be.

Tiger barbs are a must.
Cherry barbs I've had my eye on for so long. Should I commit? I don't eye them with longing the way I do with tigers.
Bloodfin tetras for a little bling in the tank.

Of course I also want a fancy goldfish. Do I want ( Read more... )

I'm not going to lie: on the listening exercises, where you have to fill in half the sentence, I don't really try to pass them. I listen to them, and answer them to the best of my ability, but I am not going to waste hours of my life trying to come up with the computer-generated answer to each question ( Read more... )

I'm liking running in the mornings, although it's still taking some getting used to. But I'm starting to feel like I'm part of a community. I don't see the same people every morning, but when I see people, we nod at each other. Yes, we both here, doing our own thing, probably for the same reasons ( Read more... )

I don't know what it was, exactly, about yesterday that was so awful. If it weren't for the current state of emotional things I would have said it had been a good, productive day. But maybe pretending took it all out of me. I didn't go to swing club, so James didn't either. Instead I went to his apartment, and we sat on the couch together, and ( Read more... )

Okay. I have the interview tomorrow. I've applied to Books-A-Million and to a hotel somewhere. Not entirely sure where. Crystal City? That's on a metro line I think.

Okay. Correspondence. This is from mid-December, in response to this page. Did I mention that I very, very rarely email Chris Hastings? He is my very favorite web cartoonist ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an awesome day for facial expressions in some of my favorite webcomics.


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Today's 4:30 thoughts:

Gunnerkrigg Court:

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Ahhhh. Internet. I have missed you. I'm not promising insanity, but maybe I will go crazy if I have to go through two years of this ( Read more... )

I got bored during work...

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