Apparently this is actually a word in English, too - the French aren't just making it up.

(Like triad, but with seven.)
(Don't tell tenrith: they already know too many words.)

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When did everyone start saying "by the by" when they mean "by the way"? I've been seeing and hearing it everywhere in the past couple months. Is this actually a thing in English? Where did it come from? I have this feeling it doesn't actually mean what they think it means.

More importantly, HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP.

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In Livejournal's continued efforts to remove useful functionality streamline its appearance, the LJ default friends page seems to have removed the ability to display text for an ( Read more... )

The short version is: everything worked. Our friends are amazing. Our families are amazing.
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This thing where every time the doorbell rings I think it's my mom coming back but actually it's another delivery guy with another package is very strange. Today's second one was LightningShip. The first one was USPS, I think, but vanished too fast for me to be sure.

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I think that was the first time I was running the neighborhood and some asshole actually told me I was doing it wrong and shouldn't be running. WTF. Spent the whole remaining mile fuming witty comebacks I hadn't had a chance to deliver.

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( I am twenty-nine-and-a-half years old and never figured out how everyone else does their hair. )

SEPTA announces the return of all-night Friday-Saturday subway service, commencing mid-June, which I have to say is extremely convenient timing for, um, me.

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View poll: coupled illness poll

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...and it's snowing. How is it snowing? Shouldn't we be out of snow by now?
Oh well at least now we have a shovel.

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