I am confused when I look at my Netflix queue. Apparently, they got back the West Wing Cassie was going to send in, or at least the white envelope with Cassie's DVD in it. But not Star Trek. Which seems, all in all, like the wrong way round, because I could've sworn I put Star Trek in the mailbox on Monday.
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07:23:39 AM,Friday 13 January 2006
So, is there a trick to getting a duvet cover to go on properly? There is, it seems, a foot of fabric surrounding my quilt, and then it bunches. So my feet were like ice last night.
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07:15:23 AM,Thursday 12 January 2006
My monitor is at least twice as big as my CPU. It's really dumb. Also, too dark. It bugs me.
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10:31:04 PM,Tuesday 10 January 2006
My room is clean, now. You can see my pretty red carpet. My delicates/non-dryables (non-dryables being things like fleece, or lycocell, which are rather sturdy, but not something you put in the dryer) are hanging up all over the bars for the canopy I don't have. I finally got my pretty red curtain up. Every piece of clothing I own (except my sweaters, which I didn't feel like trying to figure out how to dry) is clean, and organized. All my linens except the towel I used this morning are clean. I even washed my duvet cover, which was really a huge pain in the ass, because it's giant, gets tangled, and I can never get it back on my duvet properly. All of my books are back in the proper book piles, rather than dropped next to my bed. (I was broke, had no bookshelf, and spend too much time generally looking at Pottery Barn catalogues, and decided that instead of shelves, I would have piles, especially as that's how my books wind up anyway). Brianne and I declared the top two shelves in the hall closet to be for linens, rather than a bottle of windex and a toolbox (we moved them down a few shelves). I am very proud of myself. I have never cleaned my room without help before. I tend to get to the point where your room is even more of a mess than it was when you started, realize that I'm completely stuck, get an asthma attack due to dust (this can happen at any point in the cleaning process), spend several days sleeping on the couch instead of my bed, cry, and get my mom to help me. This time, I got it all done in an afternoon, and I watched really far too much Dr. Who while doing so (Captain Jack annoys me far less the second time around).
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06:55:48 PM,Tuesday 10 January 2006
In the past two days, I've received five emails "from PayPal" confirming the new email address I added. Which is bogus, and when I forward it on to spoof@paypal.com, they tell me that, yes, in fact, they aren't really from PayPal, but please continue sending them things that aren't. It's really bizarre.
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06:48:20 PM,Tuesday 10 January 2006
So, I got a red Roomba for Christmas, which got here yesterday, and we are running. It doesn't seem very efficient. But it's funny, and Sam is a bit nervous of it, but not too much, which all in all is probably excactly what you should look for with the relationship between your dog and your robot vacuum.
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09:22:42 PM,Sunday 8 January 2006
Shortly before christmas, one of my coworkers, who used to be a dental hygenest gave me a thing to do a floruide treatment at home. I've had it sitting around in my room for ages. Today, whie cleanign my room, I decided to use it. And, like those horrible fouride treatments always ae, it states absolutely foul, and you're not allowed to drink anything for half an hour, at least, after using it. It was like nasty strawberry jelly. At least now my teath have been florinated for the first time (other than using toothpaste) in yaers).
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03:56:33 PM,Sunday 8 January 2006
We tried to go to the Post Secret exhibit in Georgetown today, but the line went round the block, so we wandered around and went in very expensive stores instead and had a lot of fun.
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04:55:19 PM,Saturday 7 January 2006
In a fit last night of "I tend to read silly novels, I should read something with some real substance" and also being on a Dr. Who rush, I ordered several books by Richard Dawkins from the library. Now, hopefully, they will actually let me know when the books get in.
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10:22:13 PM,Thursday 29 December 2005
Does it damage a CD or DVD to get it wet? I was fairly sure that scratches are bad, but water is fine, so long as it's dry when you put in the player (for the obvious water/electricity issues), but Mandi was pretty sure that it's not okay at all to get a disk wet. Does anyone know for sure one way or the other?
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11:03:28 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
Dr. Who downloaded, and I watched while I cleaned up my room a bit, and now I'm generally much happier. I like that my floor isn't coved in dirty clothes because I'm too lazy to take the clean ones out of my laundry basket and hamper to put them away. And, provided it's not the fifth or seventh doctor, I'm generally pretty happy to watch Dr. Who.
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10:59:11 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
By the way, I got a job. It's with the company I've been temping at, and it becomes a real job, and not a temp job, next week.
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09:47:40 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
And I still miss the BlogBot.
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06:42:22 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
The thing the creators of Lost need to remember is that people will stop watching when they are doing reruns, and then they won't know when new episodes start back up.
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06:42:07 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
And my Dr. Who is still not downloaded, and this makes me sad.
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06:40:28 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
Rereading Soul Music because we gave it to my dad for Christmas, and just having it sitting around made me ache to reread it, so I started my copy up again. I like Ridcully and Ponder, they delight me. And, again, Vetinari is conjuring Valerius for me, and again I think that Valerius is what Vetinari would be me he had no Vimes (and a very cool dancing girl wife).
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06:40:08 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
I have named the people who ride the same bus as me in the morning (oddly, they are never on the bus with me at night, except on rare occasions, probably because I never get the bus that comes before 6). There is crazy Greek guy and man who is not Mr. Beall. There used to be iPod guy, who was the only other person at our busstop than me who wears an iPod. Crazy Greek guy is not actually Greek, but we wound up talking the first morning we both rode the bus because I looked over when he pulled out his book, and it was The Phaedo in Greek, and I recognized it as such from the cover, and we wound up talking; he taught himself Greek, and takes Plato way to literally, and has decided that The Iliad is all actually a metaphor for some spirtual thing; hence, I decided he was crazy. Guy who is not Mr. Beall gets on a few stops after me, and he reminds me of Mr. Beall for whatever reason, and so I thinko of him as Not-Mr. Beall, or guy who is not Mr. Beall, depending. There used to be woman with the cool earrings, but I don't know what happened to her. Now there is girl who is reading The Secret Life of Bees, but I'm sure that will switch, and then I won't know who she is anymore, except that she gets off at the same stop as me, and so she often pushes the button instead of me (which is good, because I can never remember to push the button).
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06:38:06 PM,Wednesday 28 December 2005
I wasn't going to stay up all late tonight, and then Brianne and I started watching The Color Purple and bawled and bawled and now it is 12:30.
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12:31:03 AM,Tuesday 20 December 2005
I quite like the Apple Store guy, largely because when I go in with an iPod problem he just hands me a new one. Also, he is kind of cute, and has a great Australian accent.
When I pulled my iPod out of my purse this morning there was this giant black spot in the corner of the display, which looked like broken liquid crystals, but it had happened for no apparent reason. The tech support guys on the phone didn't seem to believe me, but the guy in the store, as I said, is very nice.
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08:32:19 PM,Monday 19 December 2005
I picked up The Once and Future King the other day, because I was tired of the book I was reading. I don't think I've looked at the book in more than a year, probably going on two. I have been slowly, stop and start, reading it, pretty much since graduation. What is particularly odd about the whole thing is that I love the book. Somewhere in the middle of The Ill-Made Knight, I forgave Lancelot and Guenever for being, generally speaking, stupid and ruining everything, because I thought it was so well done (perhaps I was initially distracted because Tracy made me read the Fionavar Tapestry, which also treated Lance and Jenny well). I think I will be sorely disappointed when I actually finish the book.
I have two copies of the book, and they are both missing their front cover. I spent less than $4 total on both copies, but still. I cut up a manila folder yesterday to tape around the book with packing tape, to at least protect the ridiculously fragile paper (the cover it once had was the poster for Camelot, which really ought to put a date on the book like nothing else), and I couldn't find my packing tape. I have no idea where I would've possibly put it.
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01:40:33 AM,Sunday 18 December 2005