and I'm feeling odd, so this is what my desktop looks like:


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1) ...apparantly, I'm not (ok, my mother and I aren't) the only knitters in the world who still grok the dead languages. the number of posts in/with latin on the Harlot's recent death-by-leaf entry show this.

one day, we will take over the world. you can join us. we shall be your morpheus- absolvi tuam animam...muahaha...

2) someday, ( Read more... )

when all is bleak and ucky and the demons are winning the war in your head...

some very random things can make it better.

Exhibit A:) thai cilantro spicy wings + pad thai + vietnamese coffee + The Boy

Exhibit B:) This quote from zenkitty:

It was there because that was how Beowulf would have really felt. He wouldn’t have been ( Read more... )

try to figure out who wrote a song and what do you find?

fluffy kittens, euphoniums, crinolines, and god.

heehee.

so the boy still hasn't heard from SF yet.  hopefully he will soon and they will hire him so's we can be in the same time zone- on the same coast, even- and then this fall when I come back from working at the skog I can move down there.  nyeeees.  muahahahaa ( Read more... )

so evidently march 16th equals "mid march," for yesterday I recieved my letter from the monterey bay aquarium research institute.  the fact that there were 170 applicants for 18 positions (possibly fewer, because the letter said that 6 of the positions had been closed without applicant, whatever that means) is somewhat of a balm to my soul, but ( Read more... )

but he's happily eating oranges with his fellow fishy friends, so there's that.

and now:  *fanfare* (brass, of course)

randomness from my brain!   *the huddling masses cringe in fear*   (will someone shut off the narration, please?  thank you.)

fun quotes!

"you will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are ( Read more... )

The Survey Where You Say The First Word That Comes To Mind. Yay.What comes to mind when you hear....snow?:huzzah. ..rain?:snow? ..tornado?:duck ..summer love?:'happened so fa-ast' ..Jon?:crazy dane. ..Mike?:crazy zoo-animal handler. ..Shea?:hess ..banana?:split ..dizzy?:gillespie ..Laura?:oboe ..Juan?:mikkel (...?) ..car?:bus ..white?:snow .. ( Read more... )

45 of the most random things you probably never needed to know about someonewhats your name spelt backwards?:Iellop Ayerf Tiram What did you do last night?:drank a cup of TheraFlu and fell into bed. The last thing you downloaded onto your computer?:a .pdf of E. Goetze's "cryptic speciation on the high seas; global phylogenetics of the copepod ( Read more... )

beginning the process of unpacking and getting my stuff organized so I can prepare for school in october.  working on my travel arrangements now.  creepyscary.

I'm in this whole little zone where little things have been making me twitchy- not escape from the small children twitchy, but the weird little heart-scrunch that you can't tell is a good ( Read more... )