Day 4 of my 10-day Spring Break vacation, and I have declared it to be baking day. Since the dining hall is closed and I don't have to enact my role of Chefmaster Mish, I find I'm actually willing to cook at home rather than just heat up something boxed or frozen. Also, since I'm not scoring food on the cheap at work, I kind of have to ( Read more... )

So whose bright idea was it to move Daylight Savings Time up this year?? AND NOT TELL ME ( Read more... )

I just glanced out my window and saw snow flurries.

It's January. Mid-January. Snow is normal for mid-January, early January even!

AND YET I WAS STILL SURPRISED!

Global warming can only hold out for so long eh...

P.S. By the time I have finished writing this post, the snow has stopped. Huzzah!

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Cigarettes in Chicago are nearly $8 a pack. Holy smokes! Literally! They ought to be thrice blest by the pope himself for that price.

It is the middle of December (December! Mind you!) and my window is open and my box fan is on.

What up, global warming? Where is the usual winter ass raping? Where the ice and snow?

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died on Sunday.

Sunday was International Human Rights Day.

Truly the universe does have a sense of irony.

And by the by, Problem Child is selling exclusive, limited edition T-shirts. We need the cash money since our allocation committee is a big meanie that halved our budget, so we were prompted to create only the 2nd shirt in PC history. This one celebrates our 20 year history!

I doubt anyone on here is actually interested, but I'm sort of proud of ( Read more... )

I have not slept well in over a month and am consequently very irritable.

I am mad at the world!

Plastic dustpan for scooping up chinchilla litter: 97 cents ( Read more... )