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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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11:45 pm - Owwies - I has them
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Today was a productive day, though not exactly a pleasant one.
I got a tattoo!
It hurt :( but not too badly. I mean, I could in theory be convinced to get another. Especially if it's not near sensitive places like my spine (major source of my owwies).
The tattoo gun is like a thousand little pricks just going at it (penis joke acknowledged and disregarded). The tattoo artist who did it was very experienced, and very quick - by the time I needed to have a quick time out and a drink of water, he was over halfway done. Sort of helped that it was fairly small, had limited colours, and had no shading.
So now I have a prity green set of maple leaves - like on the penny, but on my back. And ink instead of metal.
Hooray!
(puts the lotion on the skin)
current mood:  pleased
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| Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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9:16 pm - Didn't even know that itch was there. Thanks, Joy of Cooking!
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I cooked food from scratch yesterday o_O
Like, all of it.
Cannelloni with whole wheat noodles and a chicken and spinach filling. All of it from scratch - even the pasta.
Yeah, I forgot to mix in the ricotta cheese stuff into the filling - but that gives me the excuse to learn how to make lasagna this weekend. And yeah, if I ever make pasta from scratch again I want a pasta machine - or at least a genuine rolling pin; no more of this "bachelor making do with clean empty bottle" carp.
It was delicious. Would make again.
current mood: gleeee
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| Sunday, February 8th, 2009
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11:58 pm
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Y'know, I get it that you don't agree with me about this whole climate change thing.
I'll admit it's patronising of me to assume that this disagreement is just because you haven't seen the data and discussions that I have, and that it's arrogant of me to assume that if I could only show you the right graph then you'd agree with me.
You don't have to read the reference website I suggested to you ('cause I'm shit at spirited discussions in real life, and this place says it better than I ever could).
It would be perfectly justified for you to tell me to STFU about this and leave you alone, and I'd accept it and do my best to let it drop ('cause I'm a pedagogical annoyance who forgets sometimes that what I think is interesting or self-evident isn't so to everyone else and takes a long time to remember to bite my tongue).
I can't argue that the site I sent is sorta biased - it is run by people who believe in climate change, after all, they don't see the need to present a Fox-News 'fair and balanced view'.
But comparing this site - which does try to reference peer-reviewed scientific papers and non-partisan data, and with which I generally agree - to a goddamned Scientologist recruitment site ---
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Do you really think so little of me?
current mood:  numb
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| Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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12:21 pm
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one of the jokes I remember goes:
Q: What does ADHD stand for?
A: Attention Deficit Hey let's go ride bikes!
or, in my case:
A2: Attention Deficit Homework is boring, I'm gonna play video games.
I know I still need to change my habits, but medicine should help me be able to do that for the first time (as long as it doesn't make me sick on its own).
current mood: accomplished
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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11:27 am
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*blink*
*blink*
*performs boogie dance of jaw-dropped epic win*
*proceeds to free schedule for next year's research*
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| Monday, April 28th, 2008
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3:50 pm
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So I registered for a computer graphics course this summer, because it sounded interesting.
A few days ago, I received an e-mail from the professor offering me a spot on a research team for one project or another (it's sort of in flux) because of my degree interests beyond computer science. It'll be a full year thing, probably, some research during September to April and then a full-time part during May to August. I went by campus today and talked to the professor, and in the course of chatting about this project found out she has some research ideas that I could fairly easily adapt to a computer-science-flavoured biology thesis.
WIN
WIN
EPIC WIN
WOOHOO!
Ahem.
I'm on my third set of antibiotics in like six weeks. Not happy!
( Cut due to candid discussion and whingeing about certain women's health issues )
current mood: recovering
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| Friday, April 4th, 2008
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10:57 pm
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Everything has its time. Everything ends.
It was what needed to be done, I just finally admitted it to myself.
I wish it hadn't been so unexpected for him. I didn't want to hurt him.
current mood: sad
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| Sunday, November 25th, 2007
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5:19 pm
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Re: the various feminist, anti-racist, and anti-heteronormative writings going up around campus
While I appreciate the sentiment behind these postings and support their efforts, I have enough self-esteem issues without remembering that I'm a bad person because I'm a white straight girl who doesn't freak out every time I hear a stereotype joke.
*grumpily flips the bird*
current mood: depressed
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| Saturday, July 21st, 2007
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1:01 pm
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As of 5 am today, I became officially spoiler-proof for the Harry Potter series.
Hah! Take that, intarwebs!
current music: Good Guys by Aqua
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| Monday, April 2nd, 2007
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4:20 pm
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| Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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5:19 pm
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| Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
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3:04 pm
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well, it all came tumbling out last tuesday. so much for waiting until he left. :S
at least this way i feel contiguous again.
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| Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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11:01 pm - warning: dangerous levels of emo
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I seem to have performed mental surgery on myself.
Whereas even up to this last Monday certain songs or even random passing thoughts could break me down within about ten seconds, I can now think of these things completely impartially. It's like I superglued the metaphorical key into the door of sadness and anger and then snapped it off. Benefits of sphere levels in Mind, I suppose.
In other news: starting this April I have, by my calculations, about two years of effectively complete freedom from obligations, barring leave over the next few months.
I'll just be over here, prodding at the empty socket which used to make me want to wail and feeling mildly curious that nothing's there now but serenity.
current mood: melancholy
current music: Far Away by Nickelback
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| Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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9:50 pm
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re: tuesday--
major course stress + hormonal cold turkey --> force 9 panic attack
this was an unhappy me
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| Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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12:58 pm
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| Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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1:08 am
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i do not want to go to bed, because that means admitting to myself that i spent the entire evening wasting time instead of doing the homework that i know needs doing and that i promised myself i would do this semester.
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| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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6:54 pm - apologies in advance to injured sensibilities
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I have this problem where I get tongue-tied when I try to talk about things that are important to me. I come over as way too bludgeoning, and I always come up with better turns of phrase an hour later. So even though this is awkward for me, posting this on the 'Net, it'd be even more awkward to say it in person.
See, I have the same problem as Tahel, here: dearly concerned with American politics, but not an American citizen. I have some American friends here in the city, and I desperately want to talk to them, convince them to vote and get the friendly neighbourhood juggernaut pointed in a less self-damaging direction.
But.
I don't know how to start in person; politics, religion, and sex are always difficult to talk about in this society. I don't know what to say; I'd be too caught up in trying to say what was important to me that I'd be beating them around the head and shoulders with a verbal two-by-four. I don't know how I'd respond to questions or arguments; I don't know the details I need off the top of my head, and the place I go to for details would probably get dismissed instantly as crazy left-wing libruls.
And I don't want to screw up. I value their friendship.
So I'm just postin' here instead. Y'all know who you are. Drop me a line, comment, talk to me. I want to know what you think.
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| Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
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11:29 pm
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| Monday, March 13th, 2006
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11:26 pm
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What would you do if you obtained a million dollars legally? I'll just take the Barenaked Ladies references as given right now.
First and most important, I'd invest a hell of a lot of it in order to generate more money for the rest of my schemes.
I'd donate to charity.
I'd start scholarships for lower and middle class students.
But I think my best idea - one that I jsut came up with two minutes ago, honest - would be to start a company or non-profit organization and hire mothers to raise their children. 'Cause if the government won't guarantee mothers a living wage, then by God I'll do it myself.
What would you do with a million dollars?
current music: the Beatles - Imagine
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| Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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4:08 am
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is it still uncouth and terribly teenager to claim clinical depression? i mean, especially not having been diagnosed yet or anything like that. (does anyone know what sort of medical professional i'd go to to get a diagnosis?) and even if there was a diagnosis, would it matter? am i not just lazy anyway?
all i know is that i feel horrible, and it's been getting gradually worse this semester, and it's been getting really bad in the last few days. and though you can't really trust the internet as a medical tool, when Wikipedia gives me links to one of the more common multiple-choice tests and i test out at mod-severe and severe on the two versions, well, y'know, there might just be something to slight hypochondriacism.
in conclusion: bleh.
current mood: depressed
current music: Sell My Soul by Our Lady Peace
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