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Month: November 2012 (Page 1 of 2)

Random Wednesday

Stupid head.

scatter them in time and space

Weird … what do you call those?  Memes?  When people post photos on facebook (which they do constantly) with pithy phrases on them that are meant to be funny?  They’re weird today.  Like someone used Babblfish to translate them from English to Russian and back to English.  So you can kind of see where they might have been funny, but now you’re just sort of saying “huh?”

Maybe we’ve reached the end of the interwebs.

I so don’t want to be here today.

My lunch is particularly unappealing today.  le sigh

Crap.  I need to get that map done.

I feel like I could sleep for a week.

Maybe I can turn this space heater off for a while.

I have to remember the protein bars.

This is not the book for the Common Read.  Not enough people will like it.

My heart just doesn’t bleed for that kind of thing.  Sorry.

What the hell is this Elf on the Shelf business??

I didn’t know there was a crisis.

I have an irrational fear of garbage disposals.  Only irrational in that I wouldn’t actually stick my hand down into a garbage disposal.

I’d really like to be a person who didn’t have headaches.

It’s entirely too bright in here.

Ooooh!

Apparently it’s Power Ball day.  If I won I would quit my job and move away and only tell a very small list of less than 5 people where I lived.

That’s not entirely true.

I don’t think you should have to have your name published if you win.  I wouldn’t want anyone to know that I won, because I can think of twelvety people who would ask me for money and I’d be forced to say no on principle.

You can think what you wish.

I need some M&Ms.

I deserve some M&Ms.

I deserve some M&Ms and $550 million.

Yes I do.

I just don’t even know how to describe this pain. I’ve tried before.  They don’t make words that work.

I just want it to go away.

Oh, I love it when people preface things with “this might be a stupid question, but …”

I am offended by the Students for Obama poster in the GAs’ office.  I wouldn’t want to have that in my face when coming in for advising.  I should hang something monstrously Rethuglican.  My tiny Vote John Casey for a Well Armed America is much too subtle.

Anyway the election is over.  Move on, dot org.

gucking?

Everyone around here is always spelling it flyer and I’m always replying with flier but they don’t seem to notice.

Oh my GOD, why are you YELLING???

Oh, so that’s where the telescopes are.  Huh.

This pain is affecting.  Effecting.  Affecting.  See?  My mental acuity.

There is really no reason to speak so loudly.  We’re all sitting or standing within 10 feet of each other.  I mean holy hell.

I don’t need any messages from the Universe today, thanks.

I’m surprised so few people offered book recommendations.  I was disappointed.

I’m sorry, I can’t read Eggers.  An Astonishing Work of Staggering Angst was appalling.  I don’t care if anything he wrote afterward is pure brilliance, I can’t stomach him.

Also he’s a HUGE Obama fan, which.  Ew.

Everything doesn’t have to be a “-gate.”  Really.  It’s not Benghazigate.  It’s Benghazi.  That’s bad enough.

Maybe I need a nice thick steak.  With a baked potato.  Maybe that will beat my malfunctioning noggin into submission.

You are too loud, phone!

I am much warmer than I should be, considering me, and the fact that I’m usually freezing.  I never even turned the space heater back on.

OK, I’m not actually offended, but of all the stuffs I want to have staring at me in the workplace, an Obama poster is not even in the same universe as the list.

Damn.  That didn’t work either.

Wow, the moon is incredible tonight!

I could use some dinner.  And a really cold beverage.

Twitchy.  I don’t like it.

New Dresden is here!  Joy!

I should send more flowers.

I just don’t know why it has to be my skull that feels like it’s actively trying to explode my brain.

I think.

Zombie dog!

Fragmentary.

Ugh.  Stinky.

Have I mentioned how much I love my student staff?  I do.  They’re awesome.

There is an astonishing amount of sadness in these stories.

That’s twice I’ve used astonishing today.  Now I’ll be using it all the time.  On the bright side, perhaps it will mean less use of “awesome.”

The semester is almost over.  Then I can just dive head first into Ghost Story.  I can’t wait.  I’m so tired of being a student right now.

Look. Oh.  Never mind.

The girls and I decided that my Time Lord name would be The Mother and everyone would just call me Mother all the time because I’m the LHC’s “Mother”.

And how’s that for a sentence?  Astonishing.

I’ve gone on long enough for one Wednesday.

Probably.

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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

13.52
~My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
I hosted Thanksgiving.

I moved more of the things but not enough of the things.  We have too many things.  The new compound is hard to get used to.  We’re so spread out now.  We used to be always right there.  It’s good and bad. We’re adjusting.

I did a family session for my cousin today.  She is a wonderful human being.  She has a lovely family.  And she always tells everyone that I am the best photographer ever, which is just the nicest thing.

I am reading Among Others, this year’s Hugo winner for best book.  I am loving it.  I don’t have time for it, but I’ve reached a fork in my semester called “I just don’t care.”  It is physically impossible to get through Blood and Soil.  It just is.  I’m dozing off within 3 sentences.  But I really need to finish my map.  Really.

I don’t suppose you really need these words.  They’re not terribly compelling.  At least they’re not angsty.  I do try to avoid the angst.  You’re welcome.

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Random Wednesday – Turkey Day Edition

Sorry.  I don’t have any pictures of turkeys …

When I say I could use a massage, I mean it would probably actually do me an immense amount of good to get a massage.  For real.  Not just a regular “I need a massage.”  A “The doctor should prescribe a massage right frigging now,” massage.

Massage.  Don’t say it like you’re British.  It sounds kind of creepy.

It’s probably dessert overkill.

I think it’s possible that she’s stopped speaking to me.

primal cooking

I don’t understand that dress.

But I don’t even like pumpkin pie!

I got lost in all those old photos.

Jack’s bow tie is broken.

It’s not as though

We don’t need Thanksgiving songs.

I always do too much dessert.  No one complains but the Mister.

What?  Do not mock my Agent Coulson crush.  I can hurt you.

8 or 9  9 or 8

mmmmpotatoesmmmmm

Yeah, I’ll probably never do that again.

Two very clean bathrooms.  Now for the rest of it.

What??  Eat the apple!  Eat it!

You need a vacation before you have an aneurysm.

Read it.

It’s the constant GRRR.  Enough.

Oh that’s a cute hat!

Miss W came in here and turned my office into a mess!

And then she read that sentence and gave me the stink eye.

It’s nice to have photos on the walls.

These walls are tall.  I need to print large things.

That dragon always looks like he’s looking at you like you’re a half wit.  “Well.  That’s one way of doing things …”

How is there still this much to do?

Argh.  Everything hurts.  I don’t think I can straighten my back at this point.

I just want pizza and a Woodchuck.

oranges and onions

Oh my God!  This was a terrible idea!  Stupid glue stick hell.

A nice long soak in the tub would be good.

This chair is too tall for this desk.  I need to find a different chair.

That iPod just tried to play 3 different versions of Kiss Them For Me in a row.  I just don’t love Siouxsie quite that much.

I met Siouxsie once.  Nice lady.

So.  Rice Krispie treats?  Oreo cream cheese balls of nirvana?  Double chocolate brownies?  Hmmmm.

It has been too long since I’ve had time to go out back and shoot something.

Speaking of which.  We need to move the target pallet.

Thanksgiving shooting!

Briney.

I can never remember my password.

Huh.  I just got the Reading Rainbow song stuck in my head.

I don’t know.  I don’t think I’m even available for emergencies right now.  Too tired.  So tired, I left the g out of emergencies and tried to add an extra e to left.

My hands are raw.

4ish then.  ok.

Where are we?

I could really go for a movie right now.

Wow.  How did it get that late?

Happy Turkey Day, my friends.  I am thankful for you all.

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“I just stood there staring, because while I’ve seen a lot of weird things, I hadn’t ever seen that.”

12.52
~Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
I will never move again.  Unless it’s to someplace like New Hampshire or something after being offered a really great job.  Are there really great jobs?  I am unconvinced.  New Dresden out next week!!!  If you haven’t read the series yet, I don’t even want to know what’s wrong with you.  I’ve been saving Ghost Story for ages.  I’m going to dive in at the end of the semester.  I’ll likely finish it in two days.  Then I’ll have to save Cold Days for ages.  I actually started re-reading Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak series even though I have so much reading to do for class. I just couldn’t take one more paragraph about genocide the other day, so I pulled up A Cold Day for Murder on the tablet that still needs a name.  I highly recommend that series as well.  They’re set in Alaska.  Good stuff.  But for the moment, it’s back to A Problem From Hell, and baking for Thanksgiving dinner.  gobble gobble

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Random Wednesday

I forgot it was Wednesday.  I know.  I know.  I don’t think I’m quite altogether all together these days.

You are a stakeholder in your own safety and security!

Active Shooter training update!  Whee! Learn how to effectively throw staplers at a shooter.  Since all the evidence does not actually show that an active shooter is generally only stopped by a bystander with a pistol or suicide.  Right.

That is going to be painful.

I think David Tennant should avoid facial hair, as a rule.

Awareness + Action = Prevention!

I will be happy to be settled.  Right now I feel like I’m sleeping in a hotel.

Some people are just naturally quiet and like being alone.

Apparently I am not actually in the mood for the Once More With Feeling soundtrack.

I hope the internet is hooked up tomorrow.  That’d be nice.

The turkey has landed!

I still say it sounds like a fake name.

Lara Croft style.  I can live with that.

Triggering events!

Having this training right after lunch is a terrible idea.

Bleah.  Here we go.

Stop interrupting me!

I could be a threat assessment expert.

Do not huddle together for safety!

I’m kinda hungry.

Oatmeal.  I do not like oatmeal.  I do like oatmeal cookies.

Michael Fassbender is nice.  I’m still a little partial to Daniel Craig though, I think.

Yes, I do love Vince Guaraldi, but it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!!!!

Oh Lord.  Thanksgiving.  I am insane.

I do make a damn good turkey.  I also make fantastic mac and cheese.  But it’s my desserts that are the real draw.

Webmail is sucking today.

Look at your life through the lens of survival!

I think we’re short today.

More things to find places for.  We need some sort of incense something or other.  It’s still kind of musty.

I don’t know.  I wouldn’t mess with him.

Inferiority complex.  Yep.

Stop being cranky.  It’s wearing me down.

Well.  You get the idea.

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Make a new start somewhere maybe settle down

11.52
~Blow It All Away, Eilen Jewell
It’s Veterans Day, and I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all those who serve and who have served in our armed forces.  This country would not exist, were it not for you.  It’s also moving day!  Moving weekend, really.  I’m sore and exhausted.  But we’re happy.  It’s a much bigger space, which we very much needed.  I get to have my own space in the new house too!  A room with all my knitting gear and my computer and a fancy fainting couch that I adore.  It’s been a long time since I had a space like that all to myself.  In other happy news, the semester is almost over, which means I get to take a big break.   A big break is also something that I very much need.  I’ve finally reached the point where I am officially over loaded.  I’m tired all the time.  I’d like to not be tired for a while.  But.  It’s good.  My life?  It’s a pretty good life.

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thursday soundtrack – wish me away

hazy – rosi golan
rooms – mia and jonah
boundary county – eilen jewell
lonesome blues – the be good tanyas
wagon wheel – old crow medicine show
the stable song – gregory alan isakov
begin – the wailin’ jennys
the house of the rising sun – the animals
what if you – joshua radin
the road – nick cave & warren ellis
dream on – aerosmith
down in the valley – the head and the heart
frozen lake – buffalo tom
safe and sound – taylor swift featuring the civil wars
your song – elton john
orphan girl – gillian welch
take that ride – emmylou harris
blue spanish sky – chris isaak
after the storm – mumford & sons

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Random Wednesday

Sad day.  I do not understand humans.  I just don’t.

Favorite quote of election night: “Well, apparently I’m going to have to get a second job so I can pay for everyone else’s vaginas.”

Honestly.

So.  Four more years of being called a racist every time we criticize the president.  Four more years down the road of statism and collectivism.  Four more years of being told what’s best for me.  Four more years of bloated government over reach and expansion.  Four more years of the continued erosion of civil liberties.  Four more years of smug, self righteous, holier than thou condescension.  Gosh.  I can’t hardly wait to get started.

I’m a little disgusted that Elizabeth Warren won.

I’m a little disgusted in general today, actually.

Let’s talk about something else.  I’m just.  Man.

I am very happy that the proposed constitutional amendments for Michigan all failed.  I was a little worried about a couple of them, but was happy to see the overwhelming no votes on those.

I’m going to pick a room in my new house and call it the Situation Room.  We probably need a War room too.

I think this sweater is going to be really cute when I finish it.

I think my mouse is dying.  I wonder if there’s enough money in the budget for a new one.

I think I need some Motrin.

Maybe it’s just the battery.  I wonder if there’s enough money in the budget for a fresh battery.

I really like these pants.

Perhaps it is not the battery.  I’m walking down and getting a new mouse after the interminable staff meeting.  Budget be damned!

I’m just going to eat this donut that is the size of my head and feel sorry for my country.  Who knows how much longer I’ll be allowed to eat donuts the size of my head?

Of course, my waistline would rather I didn’t eat donuts the size of my head …

Dammit!  Prop 1 was defeated.  My sad day is further saddened.

It’s truly a comfort to know that Americans are more concerned with whom they can marry than with the extrajudicial execution of American citizens.  “Love won” indeed.

Oooh, nothing like vitriolic gloating.  From my family.

New mouse too fast!  Slow down mouse!  Slow down!

We need a musical interlude.

Good grief.  I haven’t even managed to empty out my inbox yet today.

I just had a really nice conversation with one of my liberal friends.  Class act. Thank you.

I don’t share my people well.  I’m stingy with my people.

What?  I have good reason!

Ugh.  No more donuts for jentober.  Ugh.

I’ve decided that empanadas are just wannabe pasties.

Pasties sound good.  We haven’t had pasties in a while.

Huh.  I guess I better buy a turkey.  I hope I don’t need to take out a small loan to do it.

Culture shock.

Turkey sandwich.

Who wants to help us move?

The answer to that question is always “not me!”

Mostly reading stuff on Google + just makes me sad.  I’m not going into that further.

My campaign is offering yoga pants instead of buttons.  TOWN on one butt cheek, SEND on the other.  How many pair can I put you down for?

It’s the Canadian commentary of the last two days that has been particularly ridiculous.  Honestly.  YOU LIVE IN CANADIA.

And then there are the liberal friends who quite obviously studiously avoid broaching the topic at all.  I might be ok with that.

life don’t work out my way

My head really hurts.

Maybe someone will buy me a sonic screwdriver and cheer me up.  My preference is the 9th doctor’s please.

Since I ran the last update on Words on the tablet it isn’t working properly.  This added to my normal delay in taking my turn.  Honestly I don’t know why anyone even wants to play with me.

Why is stuff I posted 2 days ago suddenly showing up in my fb feed?

This is so cool!

I’m wasting my time.  That’s all.  Just wasting my time.  Can I go home now?

Depression eating?

Incremental moving.  The houses are both disasters.

I need a drill sergeant.

Ooph.

Seriously.  No focus at all.  This is a spectacularly bad time to have no focus.

This is probably long enough, yeah?  It’s a depressing post anyway.

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