So, my neighbours came home, and they brought over their ladder so we could break into my bedroom. Which worked, and now I'm in. Which is a relief.
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11:42:28 AM,Sunday 7 January 2007
I have succeeeded in locking myself out of my bedroom. We have no keys for any of the interior locks, and neither does our landlord. And I can't do the thing with a credit card. And our neighbours who own a ladder aren't home.
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11:09:27 AM,Sunday 7 January 2007
I also want to know what I have done to piss of all Apple products.
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01:43:54 PM,Thursday 4 January 2007
While this should come as no surprise to someone like Cassie, with whom I would frequently make plans to meet up after work, and then forget my cell phone, I have forgotten my cell phone today. I woke up, realized I'd not plugged it in last night, and though, oh, I'll just let it get a bit of a charge, then take it to work. But no, I forgot it. Not that it really matters, I'm not really expecting a call from anyone today (except Apple, maybe, to tell me they have a battery for my computer). But I feel cut off. I usually have open on my computer (at any given time), iChat and gmail and skype, and my cell phone is usually near me. At work I just leave gmail open.
I want my battery. I want to stop worrying that, accidentally, while shifting my laptop, it will come unplugged and turn itself off.
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01:43:16 PM,Thursday 4 January 2007
Christopher Eccleston will be on Heroes, which will be exciting.
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02:44:38 PM,Thursday 28 December 2006
I upgraded IE on my computer at work on the theory that a: for whatever reason, we are sort of tied to crappy Microsoft prodcuts, and b: if I must use IE, I might as well get the version that has tabs. (I love tabs. I am in a tab right now.) But it crashes. Something like 25% of the time I try to open a new tab, it freezes and I have to force quit. (That might be the wrong terminology, but I don't know what they call it on a PC, and force quit is good.)
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02:44:12 PM,Thursday 28 December 2006
My uncle gave my family a collection of Simon and Garfunkle for Christmas, which I ripped and put on my lovely new Nano. I was listening to it for the first time this morning, and I found that the sound was mixed oddly, in such a way that you didn't quite notice, but Simon was clearly singing in one ear and Garfunkle the other. Not that I'm quite sure which is which, but there were two clear voices on either side of the earbuds. It was odd.
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02:31:12 PM,Thursday 28 December 2006
My own particular brand of geekiness led to this conversation with my sister. Her: "...and for black, I got this yarn that's like, merino, silk and alpaca." Me: "Oh, Peru DK?" "Um...Something like that. It's really soft. I got it at A.C. Moore."
It is really soft. I'm making a sweater out of it, and AC Moore is like stopping selling it, which distresses me greatly.
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01:50:53 PM,Tuesday 12 December 2006
I think Robert Sean Leonard has gained all the weight Ethan Hawke has lost since they made Dead Poet's Society together.
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09:14:14 PM,Friday 8 December 2006
It's interesting, what each family calls "Christmas cookies". My dad makes gingersnaps (he and my stepmom argue every year about whether his gingersnaps or hers are proper gingersnaps--hers are crunchy, his are soft), his mother's German spice cookies (he calls them the most expensive cookies to make, because for years, he would destroy mixers on them until he finaly bought a Kitchen Aid), and the he does peanut brittle and fudge. My mom makes kipling, and these itty bitty pecan pie type cookies, and sometimes someone will make the German spice cookies (once, Connor and I did the cookies, and you ice them while they are warm and decorate; we wound up with at least half an inch of powdered sugar glaze and colored sugar stuck to the counter that we had to scrape off with a knife). My grandfather had four cookies, my grandmother's "German Christmas cookies" which he loved making; kipling (which my mom makes better) were by far the favorite, and he would make as many if not more of those as he did any other cookie. He would freeze them and give them away as presents. He was obsessed with the count of his cookies, and over the years, they cookies became smaller and smaller. They were almost always burnt, too, because they were smaller than people usually make them, but he would follow the recipe exactly, including the time they were in the oven. It was rather sad. My grandmother called me up the other day to see if I had the recipies for the cookies, apparenlty some friend of hers wants to try to make them. Between us, Jamie and I were able to find two, and my mom thinks we never had the others. I think my grandmother was very upset that all four wouldn't be made this year. I tried to console her with "well, Kipling really is the favorite" but we didn't have the recipe for what was, apprently, her favorite.
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10:28:50 PM,Sunday 3 December 2006
It's now Wednesday, and I haven't had to pack lunch for work yet. On Monday, they were ordering food because of the Board meeting, and we were all invited to join, then yesterday we went out because today is someone's last day, and now today, I'm going to eat my leftovers from Monday. (On Monday, they got food from a BBQ place, but since one of the board guys is a vegetarian and from India and they got him veggie food from the local Indian place, they got some for me too. And it was really are more food than I could eat in one sitting.)
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07:31:33 AM,Wednesday 29 November 2006
On the "if I watch it, it won't get cancelled, and maybe it will get better" theory, I have been watching Studio 60 every week. This week, Lara and I were watching the beginning of the end of West Wing, and missed the beginning of Studio 60. It seemed ironic and approrpiate. I will watch it later today on my computer.
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07:01:40 PM,Tuesday 28 November 2006
Because my uncle who had never cooked a turkey before was doing the turkey yesterday, and he put it in the oven rather late, at 250 (which shocked just about everyone) we didn't wind up eating dinner until after 10. It was absurd. I restarted my mumbling of "we should've just bought a bird from Whole Foods that you stick in the oven to reheat." We figure we will laugh about it later. Also it was, apparently, a beautifully cooked turkey.
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09:04:23 AM,Friday 24 November 2006
You get used to hitting F11 and having all your windows go flying off into space so you can see your desktop, and then it doesn't work cause you're in a bad operating system, and your stressful day just gets worse.
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03:10:27 PM,Tuesday 21 November 2006
The signature line on this email I got today was in French, and also in English (in all fairness, the email was from a guy who works for a bank in France--this was my work email, not my personal email, and we've been trying to figure something out and getting frustrated with each other (or at least I assume that as I'm incredibly frustrated with him for not telling me what I want to know that he must think I'm like the stupidest American on the planet) for about a week now). I ran across my whole problem of seeing the word "ou" and reading "not" which used to trip me up in my Junior French class, and then tripped me up the other way while I was reading Herodotus with Mr. David. I laughed and laughed.
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11:08:05 PM,Monday 20 November 2006
Jamie is such a woot geek. I don't know if that's an actual phrase, but it ought to be.
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06:32:37 PM,Thursday 16 November 2006
Well, with bills taken care of and train tickets to Philly purchased, it seems like there goes that paycheck...
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09:51:38 PM,Wednesday 15 November 2006
I have a thing about not blogging from work, but this seemed like a worthy thing to break my work-blog-ban for.
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01:28:50 PM,Wednesday 8 November 2006
Okay, so what's up with Chase vanishing about fifteen twenty minutes into an episode never to be seen again until the preview for next week?
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10:05:30 PM,Tuesday 7 November 2006
I am registered to vote in Pennsylvania. I might actually be registered to vote in two different places in PA (apparently, my sister saw my name in the book of registered voters when she went to vote for president, even though I was registered to vote in Philadelphia). I am not registered to vote in Virginia. Nor did I get my act together enough to get an absentee ballot. Let's just hope all goes well in both Pennsylvania and Virginia without my assistance.
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06:28:31 PM,Monday 6 November 2006