Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
The word "adenoidal" was invented for the sole and exclusive use of French Opera. Ugh.
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02:58:46 AM,Monday 24 June 2002
I've got five hours left before the quiz. I'm thinking I'm gonna read the last chapter, eat a frozen zinger, sleep for three hours, wake up, drink a cherry mountain dew, do the diagnostic worksheets, and go to class. I'll wear long sleeves and bring my fuzzy black thing 'cause they always crank the air conditioning up so it's fugging freezing in there.
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02:56:56 AM,Monday 24 June 2002
The more I read about these modern models of atoms and forces and things, the more they remind me of epicycles. Not in a bad way, on either side. But it sort of vindicates my man Ptolemy, after a couple hundred years of Copernican arrogance.
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02:53:57 AM,Monday 24 June 2002
Leonard Cohen seems to have written three songs about, or at least mentioning (opaquely), abortion. They're all linked, at the same time, to the idea of sterility. I wonder why that is. Is it because they're dangerous operations that sometimes cause sterility? Or is it a sort of spiritual sterility that he has in mind... as if it's an irrevocable act in some subtler way?
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02:52:48 AM,Monday 24 June 2002
My mom's been going to readings at the Colony. Wish I could go.
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12:47:35 AM,Monday 24 June 2002
Have I missed 11:11?
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11:13:21 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
Why the hell hasn't this been invented yet?
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11:10:37 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
This isn't a tremendously fascinating interview, but I stumbled across it and wanted to post it. It's about a book my mom got me two years ago, which I've read twice and think about often. I think I'm going to check it out of the library here and read it again, in fact. I can't say why, but I really really liked it. It's called An Equal Music and it's about a string quartet. I don't know if the interview is all that intriguing, but the book... well, I thought it was very good. I'd be interested in someone else's opinion of it. I miss talking about books with people.
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10:58:48 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
When the next Ice Age comes...
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10:35:59 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
Finch on a Monster!
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08:13:32 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
This morning, when I woke up, the first thing I noticed as I was coming to my senses was a desperate buzzing and whapping. It was very loud, but sounded weak and unfocused. I thought to myself, "There's a fly in the room. How did it get in? The window's shut... maybe it hatched from an egg. I'll have to take the trash out." Later, after I'd been up for a few hours and I was sitting on my floor reading, I looked up at the window and saw an enormous thin wasp. Its abdomen was so long and pointed and its wings so short and stubby that I couldn't imagine how they could be connected. I didn't notice its head. I looked back down at my book. Now, tonight, I can't hear it and I don't see it. Has it died? Did it find its way out somehow? Is it sleeping? All in one day.
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07:49:47 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
Once when I was a kid, I got a letter from "Uncle Joe, the Salt Mines, Siberia". I loved the idea of salt mines. I had a little lantern that I hung up from my window, and pretended my room was a salt mine... damn floral print wallpaper... I also used to carry around a little Altoids box full of rock salt which I'd dip into now and then, or offer people instead of breath mints, but the real purpose was this: if I ever found myself spontaneously transported back to the Middle Ages, I'd have a valuable bit of trade capital in my pocket to start myself off. It never happened, though. I bring all this up because I started thinking about salt and salt mines, and I found this site, of the Wieliczka mines in Poland. The chandeliers were carved out of salt. It's been mined continuously for almost one thousand years. I want to go see it very badly.
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06:14:53 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
Tis women makes us love,
‘Tis love that makes us sad,
‘Tis sadness makes us drink,
And drinking makes us mad.
-- Henry Purcell
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05:40:23 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
Lately it's started really bugging me when people refer to themselves as "males" and "females". The words as adjectives aren't really so bad, but as nouns, they just sound so artificial and sterile. Man, woman, buck, doe, cow, bull, fox, vixen, dog, bitch, ewe, ram. Those are nouns. Good, colorful words. Male, female? Bah. What are we, vat-grown organisms? But you hear it surprisingly often, especially on the internet.
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04:02:18 PM,Sunday 23 June 2002
I have a gut. (As any good Montanan should!) Guess it means I should start swimming again. But I kinda like it... it makes soothing "thwappity-thwappity" noises when thwapped.
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09:58:07 PM,Saturday 22 June 2002
A week from tomorrow I'll know for certain whether I'm getting a roommate or not. I haven't had one since the summer after Freshman year at SJC, if you don't count Sara. I'm not sure what the etiquette is, though. I mean, I've been living in this room for a month -- I put my posters on the walls, I've got my stuff on top of the empty dresser, my alarm clock's on the other bed-loft's desk 'cause I can't wake up unless I go clear across the room. And I'm not completely sure that anyone's actually coming. Should I take my posters down in preparation for the possibility, or should I wait and ask if they do get here? Should I buy food this week or eat refried beans and popcorn until I know whether I'll have a fridge to myself or not? Do I have to wear clothes to bed Saturday night so they don't come Sunday morning and find me nekkid in my dyne? I'm a little anxious, though mebbe it'd be good for me... I'd get to bed at a decent hour, at least. Still, hm. I guess I'll see. It's only for another month, regardless.
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07:30:59 PM,Saturday 22 June 2002
Y'know, Remi, if we were in Neuromancer, we'd be neighbors.
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05:42:15 PM,Saturday 22 June 2002
From the t-shirt I am currently wearing:
Save the Trolls!
The Norwegian trolls are now on the WWF's list of endangered species. Direct exposure to the sun was until recently the only threat they encountered. One of the major threats the trolls meet today is the modern tourist with effective flashlights. Direct exposure to strong light causes them to turn into stone, crack, or even burst.
HELP SAVE THE TROLLS!
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05:36:42 PM,Saturday 22 June 2002
My room is full of foul acrid burnt-pot-pie smoke. Ugh. I took a look at the thing and decided on the spot that I don't want to be cooked from the inside out.
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11:33:54 PM,Friday 21 June 2002
Do you have a problem with Marmite? Only you can answer that question for yourself. However, taking the following quiz may help to put your relationship to Marmite in perspective for you. If you end up answering "yes" to three or more questions, you may want to take a good look how your life is affected by Marmite.
Have you missed classes or work because of Marmite?
Do you have trouble refusing Marmite?
Do you need Marmite in order to have fun at a party?
Do you use Marmite to build up your self-confidence?
Do you use Marmite to help you relax?
Have you tried to give up Marmite and failed?
Do you crave Marmite as soon as you wake up?
Do you get into trouble because of Marmite?
Do you crave Marmite at a definite time daily?
Do you lie to others about how often you partake of Marmite?
Have you gotten into financial difficulties because of Marmite?
Do you often wish people would just mind their own business about you and Marmite?
Remember, there are people who can help you gain a life where you control Marmite, instead of Marmite controlling you.
Thank God, Brunching, you've opened my eyes. What have I been doing with my life?!
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12:51:19 PM,Friday 21 June 2002
