Tomorrow is the SuperBowl. I don't actually care about football, but I hope the Eagles win. Go Eagles!
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12:58:59 AM,Sunday 6 February 2005
Tori's pathetic time of today: using my computers graphing calculator to try to figure out how much each of the three of us owe for groceries, and still coming up with a sum of less than the bill was.
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06:59:25 PM,Saturday 5 February 2005
An Ode to Tea
There is a magic to tea that coffee rarely has. The production is part. The leaves and the pots--the debates as to whether to add the milk before or after the tea--disregarding the debate about whether adding the milk at all is sacrilegious--adding sugar. Warming the pot--I almost never warm the pot; I adore my glass Bodum pot, even if it does spill often when I pour, and I only ever warm a ceramic pot. The whole thing is like a ceremony, even if you are just having tea in the morning as you slowly wake up, or do your homework, or help someone else with their work (hi Libby! I wrote this while I was reading your paper). The magic of tea hangs on even when you throw a bag in a cup for quick caffeine instead of coffee. Tea whispers of civilization and decadence (there is nothing quite so decadent as a full high tea with it's pastries and waiters, it doesn't matter where you have it) and history and trade routes to the Far East.
Coffee has its moments--I must go to Starbucks before Latin, for example. I am of mixed feelings about Starbucks--they stand for so many things I stand against, but, also, they are everywhere, and they are consistent, and they have a class unto themselves (Wal-Mart and McDonalds are also consist and everywhere, but they are trashy as well as bad for bad for businesses and fair trade and so forth)--when I was in London, the only drinks I could be sure would contain ice (and it was hot as hell when I was in London, and as it was England, they don't generally need things like ACs, so the heat wave was hard on them) were Frapuccinos and gin and tonics. But where tea has hints of Marco Polo and trips to India (and our on Revolution) coffee has hints of rainforest deforestation and South American workers being cheated by the US. The only time coffee doesn't have nasty associations are when it is Turkish or Greek, when it is a grand procedure to make the coffee, and then it brings to mind Medraut and Goewin and Turunesh.
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03:56:24 PM,Saturday 5 February 2005
There is music playing, somewhere. I think it is music that Dru danced to before her birthday party.
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09:25:39 PM,Friday 4 February 2005
I am in a rotten lonely sort of mood. Moe is cooking with peppers, and they are making my room smell. I don't want to be here, but I don't know where I want to be.
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09:24:18 PM,Friday 4 February 2005
I had finally settled down to Homer listening to Grace, and my apartmet is being descended upon by my roommate's friends as they are about to go off to a weird party, but first they are going to hang out here for a whlie.
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08:51:11 PM,Friday 4 February 2005
The Leno Harvey went for $800,100! That's a hell of a lot of money!
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05:08:20 PM,Friday 4 February 2005
What would happen if you put whipped cream in an ice cream maker? Would it come out all frozen whipped cream tasting like the stuff I got at the Tower of London?
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03:35:51 PM,Friday 4 February 2005
Today I learned that rather a lot of the Daily Show is available on the internet. However, it only exists in Windows Media Player streaming content, and I can't make that work on my computer. Stupid computer.
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10:55:49 PM,Thursday 3 February 2005
I love the Sandman. They are wonderfully crafted pieces, all of them. Brief Lives is, I think, my favourite, but I'm not sure it's possible to actually seperate it from the very end of World's End and The Kindly Ones and finally The Wake. I love the part on the airplane when Dream talks to the little girl, telling her truths about dreams. I love that even though Destruction credits himself with being the catalyst of creation, he cannot actually create anything himself. And even, (and this is pathetic as I read it for the first time, whatever, 10 years ago, as The Kindly Ones was coming out each month) that when Dream's lover leaves him, madness comes and he goes off in search of destruction. I love the Destruction tries to warn Dream, and tries to help him from dying, reminds him that he left.
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09:47:27 PM,Thursday 3 February 2005
I slept with my fan in my bed last night, as it was the only way to get anything like a breeze in my room. My stupid room. It makes me so tired. But not tired in the got to go to sleep way, oh, no, that would be, well, convenient.
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10:41:10 AM,Thursday 3 February 2005
It's 25 degrees outside, and I'm considering putting my AC back in my window.
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10:38:56 PM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
One in three high school students think we have too much free speech. I know this is USA Today, but I saw the same report at BBC.com the other day, and just forgot to blog it.
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09:00:50 PM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
There is a group of us who meet for the two hours before our Latin class, we go over what we will do in class. We have this inability to keep on topic, really. We distracted ourselves for like half an hour trying to find pictures of a phalera, and where it would appear on Roman armour (if, in fact, it appears on Roman armour); we think it might be those things that are around the armpit or nipple. Then we started reading again. And then we wound up talking about the Lord of the Rings, and the tragedy that was Faramir, cause we'd all really liked Faramir in the books, but the movie Faramir was...ah, so sad. (We got to this, cause, see, he talks about pirates. So then we started talking about Pirates of the Carribean and we decided that the guy Cicero was speaking against would be Geoffory Rush, and Cicero would be the Commodante. We tried to figure out who would be Orlando Bloom, and then we discussed his inability to act, and, apparently, wash his hair.)
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08:33:59 PM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
It is a great feature on the iPod that when you unplug the headphones/speakers/whatever is in that slot, it pauses.
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01:30:45 PM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
I think I am doing something wrong with my crunches as they seem to make my neck hurt.
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01:11:55 AM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
Wow, it's Hob Gadling as a dinosaur!
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01:05:14 AM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
I hate my bedroom. It's too hot, and there is no breeze. Even when the door is open as well, it is hot and the air is stale. I have been debating sleeping in the living room, where there is air, and it is cool.
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12:38:31 AM,Wednesday 2 February 2005
I've been a vegetarian for ten years now, and I was a picky eater before I was one (I'm still a picky eater); our local Chinese place does vegetarian "meats" and I'm intrigued by the thought of vegetarian General Tso's Chicken. But I don't know what General Tso's Chicken is like, so...can you people who eat meat (or who don't and have had vegetarian General Tso's Chicken) tell me what it's like?
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10:43:40 PM,Tuesday 1 February 2005
I made lemon lavendar sorbet this evening, which was fun, and it tasted good, even if the recipe made it incredibly sweet, and Molly made Greek coffee. Greek coffee sends me to Turkey (cause it's essentially Turkish coffee), and it makes me think of Del and her brothers. And I was already on this major Sandman craving.
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07:25:24 PM,Tuesday 1 February 2005