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I have the strangest car-ma. . .
It's not that my cars refuse to break down (which may be the more advanced version, I suppose - wonder if I can level up somehow?). It's that WHEN they break down, they tend to be very considerate about it ( Read more... ) -
In other news, I still love Vegas. . .
Didn't have the spectacular luck of my fellow vacationers, but had a good time nonetheless! Ka is still awesome, although I still get twitchy with all the ninjas popping out of the woodwork everywhere. With bows. And flaming arrows. O was more beautiful than I remember, which is nice. Crazy people hurtling through the air into water - very ( Read more... ) -
The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day - with Bears!
Had a terrible, horrible, very bad day - despite getting to see tricksterquinn and her new house of awesome - involving a truly demented GPS and some very horrible roads. And no phone service. And getting home to find the obituary of one of my high school classmates in my email inbox ( Read more... ) -
Man, this new job takes some getting used to. . .
So, I've discovered that, much like my old job, I'm much more productive after everyone else has left and I don't have to worry about phone calls or emails or people dropping by my office - I can just put my headphones on and write like the wind (ok, a very gentle breeze - but it's HARDER when you have to include citations for every sentence you ( Read more... ) -
Mythbusters, Gaiman, and Gollum. . .
An interview with Neil Gaiman turns into Adam Savage from Mythbusters, in the voice of Gollum, singing "I Will Survive ( Read more... ) -
Say what you will about him, Antonin Scalia can WRITE. . .
From the California video game case:
Justice Alito accuses us of pronouncing that playing violent video games "is not different in 'kind'" from reading violent literature. Well of course it is different in kind, but not in a way that causes the provision and viewing of violent video games, unlike the provision and reading of books, not to be ( Read more... ) -
The jig's up - the cat knows. . .
The cat's been a little suspicious for the last couple of days, but not much, lured into a false sense of security by my very slow packing pace. Even she started to get alarmed at the number of boxes popping up, though, and the emptying of the closet was a dead giveaway. Luckily, she didn't panic and hide under the bed, allowing me to lock her up ( Read more... ) -
Signs that you've made the right job choice. . .
Apparently the U.S. House of Representatives has retained my old firm to defend DOMA. *headdesk* *sigh ( Read more... ) -
I can has job, I can has car, I can has apartment. . .
now can I has sleep? *pitiful whine*
I got the job on Monday. I drove an hour north (to be fair, the inestimable
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If there is a logic here, it is not like your plebeian Earth logic...
I'm back in NC, apartment hunting. On the drive down and around I've been listening to the radio for the first time in a while, and Rihana's S&M is in heavy rotation. I confess it strikes me as rather odd that you can say "Sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me" on the air but not "Sex in the air ( Read more... )