I should just stop watching The Simpsons until after The Bridge to Terabithia is out of the theatres, cause the trailer just makes me mad.
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06:46:58 PM,Wednesday 7 February 2007
What worries me is that, ultimately, Love is what worked for Meg Murray twice when she was defeating ultimate Evil. It worked for Ms. L'Engle, because she is an amazing writer, and was able to pull it off. I worry about Ms. Rowling's ability to pull off the same feat.
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11:11:57 AM,Thursday 1 February 2007
I made cupcakes. I am going to spontaneously take them to work tomorrow, because I think we are going to need sugar. Or else that will be Friday, but there will probably be donuts on Friday, because we always have donuts on Fridays. I used the vanilla mix from Trader Joe's, and I made a buttercream frosting that was a stick of butter and two cups of powdered sugar and as much vanilla as I felt like throwing in. It was a lot of fun.
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11:14:33 PM,Wednesday 31 January 2007
Rather accidentally, we discovered that they sell this absolutely divine gelato at Shoppers. Brianne showed it to me from the top all excited, and I thought it looked a bit sketchy. But then she pointed out that the ingredients were listed in like seven languages. And, oh, it is lovely. It is light and fluffy and wonderful. We have tried lemon, and the chocolate-hazelnut and now the cappucino.
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07:34:25 PM,Tuesday 30 January 2007
They are recabling my office. They were cutting holes in the ceiling and walls. My eyelids were burning. And piece of metal fell out of the ceiling and just barely missed our receptionist.
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05:04:53 PM,Tuesday 30 January 2007
When I have the sort of nightmares that wake you up and make it so you can't fall back asleep, they are the sort where I am being threatened by death, and there is nothing I can do about it. I have never died in a dream, or nearly died, just been threatened by something much much more powerful than I. And then I wake up.
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09:13:55 AM,Monday 29 January 2007
My hair froze this morning.
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08:31:11 PM,Friday 26 January 2007
So, for those of you who watch (or have watched) Coupling, do you remember the first episode you ever saw by the embarrassing thing Jeff does? I remember it as being "that show with the guy who accidentally told a cute girl he had a wooden leg."
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10:25:18 PM,Thursday 25 January 2007
I wish there were more computer/geeky ads that were intended for a female audience. Not that I particularly want more ads in general, but I just saw a Circuit City ad that had a guy looking for a new flat screen to go watch football. There are girls who care about sound systems and nifty TVs and their computers. (At my office, I am the first person asked if something goes odd with a computer.) If there are women in these ads at all usually they are humoring their mates.
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09:50:02 PM,Thursday 25 January 2007
I am currently quite impressed with puff pastry shells. I saw these puff pastry pesto roll things which I tried, and they are like heaven. And Gina has started putting some over frozen fruit with a hint of sugar and vanilla, and that is a lovely dessert.
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08:46:39 PM,Thursday 25 January 2007
Someone gave me (or my family) a Squirrell Nut Zippers CD for Christmas. I listen to it occasionally on my iPod, and while they are songs I'm unfamiliar with, I can feel where my feet are supposed to go when dancing and I can feel someone like Hayden pulling my hand.
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07:01:34 PM,Thursday 25 January 2007
I would watch a show called "Gay Cooking Tips with Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Sir Ian McKellen." At least, I would watch it once or twice.
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08:46:49 PM,Wednesday 24 January 2007
Gina got me an "I Love Jim Halpert" tee shirt. It's awesome.
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08:38:35 PM,Wednesday 24 January 2007
Today we bought espresso cups and stuff for making Turkish coffee. So we made some Turkish coffee, and it was fun and tasty. In my head, when Goewin and Turunesh make coffee, they are making Turkish coffee. And I had already been rereading those books.
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09:48:06 PM,Saturday 20 January 2007
Today at work I nearly cried when someone asked me to do something. It's hard to be one coordinator down, a manager down, and for it to be January. Three of us are doing the work that four of us used to do, which means more work. And they have me doing stuff with the database that no one else knows how to do. That half the time I don't know how to do. So, like, yesterday, when really what I had to be doing was payroll stuff, I was told I HAD to make a report in a format that the data doesn't want to be in RIGHT NOW. Once it had been set up, I was able to do the same thing again for Jasmine today when she asked, but I still had too much to do, and almost started crying when she asked. As it was, I left the office at 7 in the evening, still with far too much work to try to get done, but the inability to see straight. As I was walking back from the bus stop I was thinking "I will do the dishes. Because I promised I would, and they are mostly mine from that dinner I made last night. And then I will curl up in a ball with wine." But instead, I walked in, and Gina was going through the pantry, and Brianne was washing the dishes, which meant that a: I couldn't NOT help clean, if everyone was cleaning, but Brianne was doing what I'd been mentally prepraing myself to do, and I was about to melt. I almost cried again. It sucked. I cleaned out the microwave and sulked. And then I watched The Office and Scrubs and ate Chinese food because I didn't even have it in me to heat up my leftover spaghetti, and I've been wanting Chinese food for a week. And things were better.
My second portable harddrive came. This was not intended to be a replacement for my old one, but an additional. I tried the USB cord that came with the new drive, and it didn't work with the old one. So I am sad. And then Jamie and I played with our webcams and Skype and the dogs, but the dogs didn't really think it was particularly interesting. Sam, in fact, seemed to think it was kind of scary.
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10:45:19 PM,Thursday 18 January 2007
And today, with someone on the phone telling me exactly what to do, I have made a pivot table for the first time. Isn't work exciting.
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11:34:11 AM,Wednesday 17 January 2007
January is a rotten month. I feel completely overworked. This morning I was overworked in such a way that I couldn't even tell Daynah how she could help me. Part of the problem with having Daynah help me, rather than if someone like Edith offered to help, is that I can't say to Daynah "can you do this?" I would have to show her, and then watch her do a couple, and in the meantime that would take more time than if I'd just done it myself. Taxes suck.
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06:58:47 PM,Tuesday 16 January 2007
My external harddrive, which has grown nearly full, has stopped talking to my computer. I have taken it apart, and stared at the insides, and gone, huh, and blown on it, because I did't know what else to do, and put it back together. Disk Utility doesn't see it, and neither does that you can do where you see what's plugged into your USB drives. I suppose the next thing to try would be a new USB cable. The power light goes on. Does anyone either have any suggestions about how to fix it, or who I could take it to get it repaired?
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06:56:34 PM,Tuesday 16 January 2007
When I was little, I really liked pink. It was my favorite color. We had these floride vitamins we had to take, they came in pink, orange, and purple, and I wouldn't let Jamie eat the pink ones, because they were mine. And then at some point, I think around the time some boy in my preschool class told me that girls are supposed to like pink, and they aren't allowed to like blue and green, because they are boys colors. So, slowly, I stopped liking pink, because it was, by definition girly. I think I made some excuse about it clashing with my hair. And now, recently, I have realized that, wait, I like pink. It's a nice color, and I look good in it. And really, it's a color, not a political statement. And so pink has slowly started creeping back into my warddrobe.
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08:11:09 PM,Wednesday 10 January 2007
I've lost my cell phone. My two year contract ends in like August. Does anyone know if you can get a new phone at the cheaper rate if you renew your contract, even if you still have like eight months on your contract? (My phone has been missing for less than 24 hours, but I feel like I have given up on it.)
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01:31:00 PM,Monday 8 January 2007