Because it's not about being normal, or even avoiding being at a disadvantage. It's about being as good as I can possibly be, and I believe that's pretty damn good, if I can just... get... a little... better....

For the first time in my life yesterday, I broke a nail... I've never had nails that were sufficiently long, for a sufficiently long time, to be able to do that before. I mean sure, I've had fake nails come off and stuff, but this was weird - the end of the nail on the middle finger on my right hand just shattered. So I had to cut loads of it ( Read more... )

Been having a lot of trouble with Bulldog. When we moved into our apartment, in November, we discovered that the previous tenants had signed up for this service. When we dial 150, which should bring us through to BT so that we can get our account set up, it goes straight to Bulldog's customer service instead. Note that these are the very ( Read more... )

After being overcome with envy at pandemicpsyche's tag cloud, I decided I needed one of my own. Turns out it's not as easy as it might seem. The only way I could get it to work, in the end, was by applying the Haven layout, which is not really the prettiest of layouts. I then had to hack the thing to pieces to produce something I can live with. Hence the ( Read more... )

want. WANT.

Woke up this morning to a beautiful snowy day. The kind where everything is just lightly dusted with snow, and the trees are doing the cool thing they do when there's snow stuck to one side of all the branches, and they look like they were drawn with white chalk on black paper ( Read more... )

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Sliced ham sushi
Hell, I had some ham leftover from making sandwiches - there was extra sushi rice; what's a girl to do?! Anyway, it tasted fine.
Literary: Wheel of Time I was just a teenager when I started reading that shit... and it just keeps coming...Audiovisual: American Idol Yes, I have ( Read more... )

Based on reading the Bible as a work of fiction when I was around 10 or 11:

You know the Bible 92%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Did some world-class wombling last night. Well, ok, I found the thing on freecycle, but still - a whole sofa! For free! I think that was pretty cool. We went to have a look at it last night, and decided it was light enough that we could carry it home ( Read more... )

( my xmas stocking )