Last night during Mabel I knitted up a scarf for being sold by Reality.
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11:24:18 AM,Saturday 16 February 2002
When we played Spades a lot in high school, we all learned how to count for Spades. Almost all of us also learned how to stack the bottom of the deck, and maybe the top of the deck too, if you were really talented, so that you and/or your partner would get a really good hand, and the other people would get a kind of crappy hand. The thing with stacking the deck in that sort of game, though, is that all the cards get dealt out, among four. There are four hands of cards in that will be dealt, and cutting the deck only determins who gets which hand. It's really amusing. Ah well. I will be dealing blackjack on Saturday, and then later will be waitressing. It will be amusing. I almost bartended, but I have a better idea as to how to deal blackjack than as to how to mix drinks, so...
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11:19:22 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
The key to blackjack, as I understand it, is to count cards without looking as though that is what you are doing. Making everyone think that you aren't. Which is sometihng I find rather amusing. I've been told that, at least sometimes, they play with more than one deck, to make it harder to count. Now, I do know how to count cards, and I tend to do so when I'm playing cards, at least if I'm playing the right game. (There is little point to counting cards in Mao, for example.) Counting cards for blackjack, though, is an entirely different sort of counting cards than what I've learned to do. I learned how to count cards playing Spades, which means it travels rather easily over into Hearts and Bridge. You keep an eye out for the aces and kings, remember which were played, who is out of what suits, and you keep track of what's been played in the way of trump (or hearts, if you are playing Hearts), so you know how high up your cards are. It's all in how you play: it's part of the game. When we played Spades a lot
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11:15:22 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
When I go home in slightly more than two weeks I want to make felafels and bread and hummus and soup and gooey yummy wonderful chocolate chip cookies...
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07:01:49 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
It would just be damn cool to be able to say that you are a third generation folk singer.
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02:51:23 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
"I said maybe I love everyone
She said that's the same as lovin' no one
I said ok, I guess, whatever"
--Dan Bern
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02:42:26 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
Martin left me a lovely rose which is now sitting in the lovely blue bottle that once held champagne.
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02:41:03 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
In honour of Katherine's questions on pronunciation, and partially cause this has been bugging me since freshman year, does anyone else out there pronounce the "e" at the end of "toblerone"?
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11:31:33 AM,Thursday 14 February 2002
Had someone told me in July or August that I would decide to write my junior essay on Don Quixote, I would have laughed at them.
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12:38:38 AM,Tuesday 12 February 2002
I'm exhausted and my head hasn't been screwed on staight all day, but I will leave you all right now with the news that the surprise wedding reception we had for my parents was a hit; they were thrilled, and the party was wonderful.
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10:43:08 PM,Sunday 10 February 2002
the bathrooms is not doing something, or at least not what I meant.) And so I stop going, and then all of the sudden I feel like I'm failing somehow. And then tere's Amnesty. They seem great and all, but I just have this feeling that this whole let's all write letters about this thing isn't going to do anything. If the third world people who are off slaughtering people had morals they wouldn't be off slaughtering people. They don't care what we tell them they should or shouldn't do. I don't know how to fix this, but it feels like there's something wrong there.
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07:56:17 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
As I sit here and bounce of walls and then go run off to the hall to peer out the window, I will attempt to explain what I began about my feminst leanings and Chris's group. (I cannot, however, spell.) I have this tendancy to have all thee opinions about things, like feminism, or how people should treat the environment (if you have a bloody park around your city, you have it there for a bloody reason, and you don't go and sell part of it to fucking McDonalds. No. Bad Harrisburg). Or how you treat your fellow human being (this has to do with Amnesty International, from shom I seem to get emails every day, which I delete). Groups like Chris's and the one environmental group I briefly took part in have this way of sitting around and talking about how much things suck. And then they might do a little something, like as a nod towards doing things better, but in the end, they are a place to bitch. This drives me nuts. If you are going to have a group, do soemthing with it. Try to make a change. (Putting condoms in
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07:51:52 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
I just feel bloody stupid hanging out in the hall with my face pressed up against the window to see if my ride is showing up. So I keep jumping up. And I don't have an attention span long enough to do much of anything for very lng.
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07:43:56 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
Who me? Antsy? Why would I be antsy? AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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07:38:27 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
I hate to wait
Like even for a bus or something
An important phone call
--Dan Bern
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07:38:01 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
Neil Gaiman's blog has proved a source twice for lovely distracting things to read. Whenever he talks about what is is reading or considering reading to his six year old at bedtime, I think about how much I enjoyed the book when I read it the first time, and how much I would enjoy reading it again. Diana Wynne Jones was a lovely distraction from Kant last weekend, even though I left Witch Week at home, and so I read what I had. And the Thirteen Clocks was wonderful when I read that.
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07:24:50 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
When the last thing that happens in a dream you have during a nap is that you find yourself saying, "But what IS the focus of an ellipse? And how do you find it?" it must be time to figure out what, precisely, a focus of a figure is (it's that point right there, the H or the S, which presumably stand for Sol and Helios which is the centre of force. Doesn't answer my question) and how you find it.
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07:19:32 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
I do wish that the ads I see when I check my yahoo mail didn't have Britney Spears.
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03:49:00 PM,Friday 8 February 2002
Is there a difference between lying and changing the truth?
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10:24:44 AM,Friday 8 February 2002
Tomorrow tomorrow...
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12:13:10 AM,Friday 8 February 2002