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I wish I was a robot.

I have no idea what we're fighting about. Laundry detergent. We have discovered we are out of laundry detergent. I used the last half serving of it between my two loads and neglected to mention this fact right after it happened to my boyfriend who was shouting at the sub-space emissary. When he beat it he went to do laundry, and discovered this. It ( Read more... )

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The first batch came out and then I realized my understanding of the fortune cookie fold was totally flawed. Thank gods for youtube! Also: I found out the batter I made yeilds yummy, yummy, cookies.

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I went to see Cloverfield last night. It turns out I am one of those people you've read about who got motion sickness before the action even started. I reeeaaalllly wanted to see it though, so I wrapped my scarf around my head (because it was too hard to just keep my eyes closed) like a blindfold and experienced it as a blind person. Sometimes I ( Read more... )

So I'm up late doing some crazy lace-knitting thing with tiny yarn and listening to music and I decide I'm totally in love with Jens Lekman and then I decide I need to learn some Swedish, stat. And I go to wikipedia and it says: "Swedish is also notable for the voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, a highly variable consonant phoneme." And then ( Read more... )

I don't believe in new year's resolutions. I don't like the idea of forcing myself to come up with some arbitrary self-improvement project I don't care about to work and surely fail at simply because of the date on calendar. I like to make resolutions in the spring, when I'm feeling really motivated and I've got the whole glorious summer to really ( Read more... )