OMG we had an earthquake around 4:30 this morning! It woke me straight up out of bed.

I woke up out of a sound sleep because the bed was shaking. When I was first waking up I thought the bed was shaking because an intruder was hopping into my bed, so I screamed and shot straight up. Once I got my eyes open I realized that there was no intruder ( ( Read more... )

 Last night I was driving home from motionparallax's place. On Big Bend, a pickup started pacing me. You know what I mean? When a guy pulls up exactly even with you in the next lane and drives your exact same speed? So he can look at you or whatever?

Well I don't like that. I find that menacing and frightening.

So I didn't acknowledge in any way that ( Read more... )

 I dreamed last night that I was friends with Santa Claus and he came over every day to clean up my place and put my things away. And while he was doing that, we would talk about things like the future of health care in America.

And me being me, I said things like, "It's fuckin ridiculous! Are they fuckin kidding me?!?" and then I'd feel like a heel ( Read more... )

Somebody in my local area code keeps calling me. They've called me like 5 times this weekend. And never leave a message ( Read more... )

 Just now I attempted to remote-unlock my apartment door, and was vaguely confused when it didn't open.

Heh. Ditzy moments can be so amusing.

Just now I got up from my desk, took 5 steps and then stopped up short because I couldn't remember what I got up for.

I stood there trying to remember. I twirled in a slow circle. I meandered back to my cube. I stood in the cube. I twirled slowly in the cube. I looked around to see if anything would trigger. Finally my eyes rested on company ( Read more... )

Okay, ya'll. I really am cooking retarded. I need help.

I've got some recipes that call for broiling.  I don't know what that is. Yes, I am ashamed at my total lack of basic knowledge. 
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The local alternative music radio station is doing "Wayback Weekend". It's all Puppie music. When the station promos are all, "This weekend we're going WAY, WAY back!" and almost every song you hear, you think, "Oh, I love this song, this is one of my favorites!", well... *sigh*

Dude, wasn't it just yesterday that "retro" shows played Men at Work ( Read more... )

This New York Times article is really inspiring me. I think it makes a very good point. I feel inspired to see what my life would be like if I undertook something similar. I'll still use my phone (I don't have phone overload -- nobody ever calls me 
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 I realized as I was headed to bed last night that I had no clean clothes. Um, oops ( Read more... )