The wedding I was supposed to go to is postponed, due to, well, the hurricane. I am vaguely relieved that I will have my weekend, and will be able to make money on Friday and Monday, and vaguely disappointed that I don't get to go to the beach. Even if it was the beach during a hurricane.
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06:31:46 PM,Thursday 20 October 2005
I'm supposed to be in a beach front hotel in Miami this weekend.
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10:41:26 PM,Wednesday 19 October 2005
I used to have this piece of paper, right, form back when I had no cell phone, which had phone numbers on it. The other day I tried putting numbers in my phone ,when I found the piece of paper, but I got at least one just wrong. And now I cannnot find that piece of paper.
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10:35:38 PM,Wednesday 19 October 2005
I have been rereading The Coalition of Lions and The Sunbird (well, actually in reverse order, which means I'll probably wind up starting The Winter Prince again tomorrow, if I can figure out where it is). They are stunning. I read on the bus, on my lunch break, and I come up from the books blinking. On Monday, I got off my bus and walked through the brisk October in Northern Virinia stunned from the jerk away from the horrible salt mine at Afar. I loved the game of chess, with Telemakos as the willing pawn, to save a kingdom, as a mirror to Lleu as the unknowing pawn for the sake of destruction. Turunesh stands as an amazing counterpoint to Morgause--tie up Gaheris and leave him in the woods for a few hours, and find yourself drinking arsenic and hemlock, but get Telemakos threatened with beheading, and, oh, dear, don't worry, it'll all be fine.
They are wonderful books. Beautifully crafted. Everyone should read them, all three (Tracy, that means "go read the second and third books, even if Medraut says less than 50 words between them, and Lleu is MIA.)
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11:27:22 PM,Tuesday 18 October 2005
All right, so I bought a bar of Toblerone for Brianne this week, as she had never had it. It tasted like mint. It's nasty and foul; nougat and mint do NOT mix. I'm trying to figure out how to contact Toblerone to complain, but I can't figure it out. Who wants to help?
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11:30:19 PM,Wednesday 12 October 2005
I hate it when you really love a book, and then there are quasi-sequals, and they aren't nearly as good, and they just get less and less interesting, but you still feel like bound to read them, because you enjoyed the first one.
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10:20:48 PM,Wednesday 12 October 2005
I almost bought pink shoes this weekend. I thought, "oh, they will be my October Breast Cancer shoes." Then I remembered that part of the point of buying pink stuff like the pink M&Ms or the pink KitchenAid in October is it tends to give money to causes in a way that buying random pink shoes does not.
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12:25:38 AM,Wednesday 12 October 2005
Steve is Norrington, and after I learned this, I was distressed. And Jeff was gone, by the time the next disc showed up, so, all in all, the fourth season was weird. Sally and Patrick were by far and away the high point.
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10:31:45 PM,Tuesday 11 October 2005
I'm not sure what I think about Google's personal webpage thing. On the one hand, it seems handy, but, on the other, I never really used Yahoo's similar thing, and I did like the streamlinedness of classic Google. Also, it isn't as great for killing time, if the headlines for the news people are right there; I'm sure I will find less random stuff, like the giant squid and so forth.
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04:12:45 PM,Sunday 9 October 2005
Possible best line from a TV show ever (and Desmond's accent I'm sure helped) "So we saved the world together for a while, and that was lovely."
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11:31:23 AM,Saturday 8 October 2005
I meant to try to get a baguette, but instead I got coffee and sauvignon blanc.
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08:42:36 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
So, the fourth season of Coupling aired in 2004. Is the show over? In hiatus? Will there be more of it? We have only one disk left to watch, and are distressed.
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08:32:18 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
Mandi and I went to Cosi and had smoreos for dinner. Afterwards I felt a bit ill. But they were tasty things, those smoreos.
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08:27:05 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
There is a truck outside my house delivering groceries. I don't really understand ordering your groceries online (I suppose it would help stop the impulse buys, but, really, where's the fun in going to the grocery store without impulse buys?). Maybe they are gone now. But they were here.
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08:25:39 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
So, I managed to get to Martin's blog. It was tricky. First, I tried clicking on his blog in the bloglet tracker. That didn't work. So I tried going to ninjavampire, and that didn't work. That's when it said I should contact the webmaster, or something along those lines, rather than just giving up. So, then, finally, I tried going to a comment on Martin's blog from the blogtracker, which worked fine, and then I clicked on the link back into the blog, and it all worked. I don't understand any thing of what hapepned. Or why I'm like a setance ahead of what's appaeringo n the screen as I type. But I'm not going back to fix it, so you;'ll all just have to live with my bad typing.
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02:37:49 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
I haven't been able to read Martin's blog for several days.
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02:26:21 PM,Wednesday 5 October 2005
If you call 1-800-NETFLIX, you get a phone sex thing. If you try 1-866-NETFLIX, it's a number that doesn't go anywhere. However, 1-888-NETFLIX actually gets you to Netflix, if you ever want to call them.
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11:40:37 PM,Monday 3 October 2005
Cassie lent me her old computer monitor, so now at least my computer screen isn't flaking out every so often. It's signficantly larger than my computer.
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11:39:22 PM,Monday 3 October 2005