This is not the journal post I was intending! ...except I have hockey work to do that I've been putting off since Tuesday, so I'm gonna do that now and leave this here until then ( Read more... )

Welp, today got busier than anticipated. O___O I had to do a mad dash to a sample site ~2 hours north of where I work this afternoon, so I was basically out of contact from midday onwards, and then I got more samples near the flat, and then I... went to the gym, and then I got home and was basically like "PAST CLAIRE, WHY DID YOU NOT PUT ANY OF ( Read more... )

So every now and then I get to sort of mulling over The Last Day On Twitter, and sometimes it really is entertainingly batshit. viz, the previous 24 hours: I spent some time (when thankfully most of you were asleep and should have missed it) having an embarrassing meltdown about the Kings' Cup run (short version: ashamed by still being kinda into ( Read more... )

So after many many months I have finally begun the process of Operation: Retaliatory Trolling. As you may remember, I went on holiday for a couple weeks earlier in the year and returned to find that my entire room had been covered with tinfoil. Also there was a stripper pole. The lesson is: don't leave
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I just wanted to thank
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Dear all the shiny new little plants we just put into our front yard this afternoon,

Those of you who require "full sunlight" had best evolve fastSorry, dudes. Ain't gonna happen ( Read more... )

Random thought I just had: I'm not sure whether it would be funnier if Logan Couture was named after Wolverine or the dude from the Babysitter's Club books ( Read more... )

--the opinion of EVERY GREEN THING IN OUR YARD. Especially the ones we don't want to cultivate. :(

Ugh.

So, yeah, totally spent just over an hour on my knees in the front yard this afternoon. Weeding, I hasten to add. Also trying to kill the triffid again. We chopped that thing to the ground and dug out the roots about three months ago and it ( Read more... )

Okay, new rule: when I read something and think "omg, even *I* can write better than this" I stop mentally rewriting the badfic and GO WRITE SOMETHING MY ACTUAL SELF. Jeez.

I had a very nice evening with
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...and now my brain is just quoting Paul Gross, so clearly this post can only go downhill from here. :D ( Read more... )