They've stopped trying to sandbag the levee breach now, stating that the pumps will fail in a while and that 9 feet of water will flood the rest of the city in 12-15 hours. Any last vague hopes that they might stop the bowl of toxic sludge scenario from happening are dashed. Everyone has been ordered to evacuate the city by boat, car, or foot. some people still insist they're going to stay.
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09:21:56 PM,
Tuesday 30 August 2005
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I've seen boxes cum furniture before, but never to this extreme.
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12:53:26 AM,
Sunday 28 August 2005
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This latest story comes in tiny pieces. I can't tell whether it will be any good, despite having already worked out the complete plot. I suppose it is better to let it come in drabbles than to force my way through. It does not feel as though it would like to be rushed. And so, off to do the dishes.
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06:48:18 PM,
Thursday 25 August 2005
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*Pick a prompt
*Have a nice hot bath
*Write minimum 100 words
*Dishes
*Re-evauate energy level and figure out afternoon plans (write a bit more and then tidy up/veg)
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12:33:11 PM,
Tuesday 23 August 2005
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Added a link to the lexicon game in the sidebar for easy reference. Now off for the weekend.
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10:46:56 PM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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Unexpected day off. Walking (3 miles, 54 minutes), dishes, tidying (re-organizing the DVDs counts, right?), trash out, laundry, writing. Tonight: Much Ado About Nothing.
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01:01:29 PM,
Friday 12 August 2005
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Aside from being my late father's birthday, the 8th of August is apparently also National Sneak Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night. I may need to visit the grocery store in a bit.
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08:07:26 PM,
Monday 8 August 2005
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One should never underestimate the power of corsetry. Shocking, really.
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02:57:39 PM,
Saturday 6 August 2005
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How to get rid of moths in your kitchen
I am happy to report that the bay leaf sachets I put in my moth-infested cupboard do seem to have done the trick. I was afraid to open it after being gone nearly a week, but inside found only two dead moths and no new nests, worms, or cocoons.
If you have Indian Meal Moths in your kitchen, I recommend making sachets using knee-highs (made of pantyhose material) with several dried bay leaves inside.
I found 3 pair for a dollar knee-highs at the dollar store, and bags of dried bay leaves for 99 cents at the supermarket in the cheap Mexican spice section. With two bags of bay leaves and one box of knee-highs I made six sachets for 3 dollars and put two on each shelf of the infested cupboard. To make the sachets I put a few leaves in each knee-high, knotted the ends, and then crunched the bundles in my fist to make the leaves more fragrant.
Results: after one day there were a couple of sickly worms and moths still hanging on (they met a swift end upon discovery, I can assure you). After a few more days, nothing in the cupboard, though there were still adult moths around the house, which made me nervous. After a week away: two dead moths in the cupboard and no moths flying around the house! It worked! Now that cupboard is becoming a glassware cupboard, though, as I have become superstitious about putting food in it again. I'm also leaving the sachets in place and I think I will put some in all my other cupboards, too. Cheap moth prevention certainly can't hurt, and it smells good, too.
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03:28:59 PM,
Wednesday 27 July 2005
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Katherine got the Euclid joke on her own! Yay!
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03:26:06 PM,
Wednesday 27 July 2005
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Angie and I were talking about my Bette Midler obsession, which led to Cait's youthful love of David Hasselhoff, which reminded me of a bit of sublimely ridiculous web-fluff. I give you: Fad of Devil's Hash.
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03:12:19 PM,
Wednesday 27 July 2005
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a small photogenic sampling of the spoils of my teenage obsession
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03:25:59 PM,
Saturday 23 July 2005
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Apparently July's organization theme does not brake for parental visits. I have been here three days, and each of those days I have gone through boxes from my old closet. A lot of them contain things that have nothing to do with me. Some of them are full of things that no one in the house recognizes. Large amounts of Bette Midler memorabilia, though. I think a photo post may be in order next. Restless.
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01:11:34 PM,
Saturday 23 July 2005
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Friday cat blogging
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11:26:19 AM,
Friday 22 July 2005
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Cleanest rat in Wildomar
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09:32:32 PM,
Thursday 21 July 2005
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05:13:18 PM,
Wednesday 20 July 2005
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Nothing like getting up at three and getting ready for work only to discover you've switched the schedule around in your head accidentally and that you could have slept until four. Too late to go back to bed, and I still have to get up at three tomorrow. Blah.
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06:19:27 AM,
Thursday 14 July 2005
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In an "I really shouldn't be surprised by now because everything ever is on the internet" moment, I discovered that there is a community on livejournal specifically devoted to pictures of people or animals who are caught in the act of jumping. Though pictures of people or animals jumping are pretty neat in general, I am especially taken with this set of pictures of cats jumping. My favorite is the 13th down ("You don't know tiger hand?"), but many of the rest are also really amazing photographs.
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12:35:01 AM,
Monday 11 July 2005
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Did you know that insects can't see yellow light as well as they can see blue and ultraviolet light? I didn't. Hurray for learning new things!
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08:10:37 PM,
Friday 8 July 2005
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Euclid's Elements is a collection of propositions. Just sayin'.
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10:22:26 AM,
Friday 1 July 2005
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Well, then! After days and days of nothing but junk mail, I opened the box today to find my new debit card, my new driver license, my exciting Flor catalogue, and a letter/mix cd from Erika! It's like winning the mail sweepstakes.
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05:06:03 PM,
Wednesday 29 June 2005
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I need this list to stop me from doing apartment overhaul all day. To do:
*Walk Moss to work and come home (1 mile) After I got the iPod out of depressive mode, it decided to get all ambitious and angry. "One angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" followed by "Go West". Seems right for today.
*Have a cup of tea
*Get tall bookcases in bedroom finished Graphic novels, art books, dictionaries, foreign language textbooks and references, linguistics, children's, occult, writing, romance, poetry, Annals of America, Encyclopedia Brittanica.
*Shower almost out of shampoo. Must remember to get some soon.
*Write for Musemuggers at least half an hour
*Meet Moss for lunch (1/2 mile) more like 3/4 to one mile actually. Anyway tasty salad from the yuppie market was had.
*Send packages to Annelet, Martin, Caprina Lynn, Libby sent one to Sarah, too. Still have a bunch more to do, but they can wait for another day.
*Write at least a half hour more for musemuggers
*Go to starbucks and write to Katherine and Leith
*Meet Moss after work and walk home by way of Anstead's for salad stuff
*Dinner
*Walk for a half hour
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11:26:52 AM,
Wednesday 29 June 2005
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Hey that's the frog that Erika's vs!
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09:48:00 PM,
Sunday 26 June 2005
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Okay I'm going in.
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08:39:11 PM,
Sunday 26 June 2005
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At the carwash
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07:09:34 PM,
Sunday 26 June 2005
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I should've known that posting about how I wouldn't be posting much would jinx me into posting more frequently. Anyway this link leads to a really neat picture walkthrough of a house with overhead catwalks in almost every room. The house colors are a bit much for me, but the cat walkway system is really cool. They have all sorts of exciting wall cutouts that the cats can walk through to get from room to room without jumping down, and a lot of them are fun shapes like suns and skulls and things. My favorite pictures are of the cat face shaped hole, which isn't for walking through, but for peering out.
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01:33:18 PM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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Because It gave me a little thrill to come upon it unexpectedly, I thought I'd share this article about Eva Brann I found on Arts & Letters Daily.
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11:45:18 AM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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One of the reasons I've been quiet lately is that I've been putting all my energy into deep cleaning over here. The fates have conspired to keep us in Healdsburg for the foreseeable future, so I've decided to make this apartment a place I will enjoy living in.
I haven't gotten very far (it's slow, grueling work going through years of accumulated objects and sorting out the trash from the donations from the stuff we actually want to keep; and on top of that there's an infinite supply of evil dust to make me cough and sneeze and get headaches as I work), but I'm making steady progress. The thrill of watching the top shelf of the closet go from chaotically crowded to an empty, but filthy slab of rough and unpainted plywood to, just today, a pristine surface covered in white contact paper was really far greater than I had anticipated.
Ultimately I hope to pull a complete room makeover a la "Trading Spaces" or "Changing Rooms" (except without a designer or a carpenter or a team of neighbors to help, though Moss is very good about doing any tasks I assign him) with exciting decor and places to do things I like doing, like reading and crafty stuff and of course sleeping. This process will undoubtedly involve before and after pictures, because what kind of person-who-enjoys-watching-The-Trading-Spaces-Channel-on-airplanes would I be if I didn't assume other people are also fascinated by home decor transformations? In the meantime, though, if I remain quiet, you can assume it's because I want to spare you from scads of "Lot of dust in the closet, whoa, Nelly" entries.
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11:21:09 PM,
Wednesday 22 June 2005
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Earless kitty
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10:45:36 PM,
Sunday 19 June 2005
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Sky at sunset rose
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10:05:14 PM,
Thursday 9 June 2005
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Kettle tree
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07:10:04 PM,
Thursday 9 June 2005
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Announcing the 2nd Annual Cake-Mailing Contest!
That's right, the time has come to bake (or buy) cakes and send pieces of them through the mail for judgement. If you didn't do it last year, you missed out on a lot of fun (including eating your own cakey leftovers after the one piece was sent). Make sure you get on the ball this year!
Rules
1. The cake: Any cake will do, but remember that the contest is judged on several categories including crumbliness, gunkiness, tastiness, and general aesthetic appeal. You may alter the cake (add toppings, decorations or flavorings at will), but please make sure it is edible and not poisonous.
2. The packaging: Place your cake in a ziploc bag, and place the ziploc bag in an envelope. No boxes, no bubble wrap, no frills. We want to see just how smooshed the cake will get in transit.
3. The deadline: All cakes must be postmarked 15 June or before.
Sign up in the comments, and leave me your e-mail so I can get you the address of the contest headquarters. I am NOT the judge, merely a co-creator and participant.Though if you decide you want to send cake to me, I wouldn't be upset. Unless it was poisoned. Then I would be a bit upset, yes. The winner will receive a fabulous prize and fame beyond his or her wildest dreams!* Sign up now! Do it!
*The level of fame may be slightly exaggerated.
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10:38:29 PM,
Thursday 2 June 2005
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Katherine got the croquet package!
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04:12:14 PM,
Wednesday 1 June 2005
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01:52:33 PM, Saturday 28 May 2005
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A fourth package just arrived. I have no idea who sent it. The others were labeled. This is like the best unexpected package day EVER.
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04:46:38 PM,
Friday 27 May 2005
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03:39:16 PM, Friday 27 May 2005
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site & script courtesy of Moss