Dear Library-

I'm glad I got to visit you this week. It'd been much too long since we've seen each other, and I wanted to write you to say I'd missed you,[1] and that, of all places, you'll always be my first and truest love.

Oh, sure, we've had our spats; I've kept your books for longer than I promised. You've sent serious men with rubber hoses[ ( Read more... )

Still sick. The plague is apparently attacking the part of my brain that influences my taste in movies. So of course I'm watching Ultraviolet online ( Read more... )

Oh yeah. I'm sick.

When I first got sick (yesterday), I thought it could've been tonsillitis, based on the complex medical analysis of "Well, that's the only place the pain's coming from." So I walked around scavenging cough drops until it occurred to me that the only thing I knew about tonsillitis was A) how to spell it[1] and B) where it took ( Read more... )

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Want.

Well, on the bright side, I heard from the army.

The downside of that? Turns out that Plan A flopped. Go to Plan B.

...

I don't really have a Plan B.

In which I make vague gestures in the direction of productivity...


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-Still waiting to hear from the army. I hate waiting. Hate hate argh *headdesk* hate.

-We bought a glow-in-the-dark basketball. Which would seem to be a good idea. If it starts to get a little dark out, you can keep playing, right? Ha-ha, no! Because while you can see the ball, you can't see the backboard, rim, or after a certain point, each other ( Read more... )

( So, Part 2 )

So the army thing's progressing. I'm working on getting a waiver for a disqualifier (bad eyesight), but hopefully if that gets cleared, then I'm good ( Read more... )

I just realized that the army, having offered me a job working with satellite communications technology, might do something of a doubletake at the number of jokes I've made about ruling the world with orbital lasers.

Let's hope they have a sense of humor about that kind of thing. Heh.