Month: September 2005
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Meme of 7Well, Kristen tagged me and I’m kinda bored, so here we go. (Incidentally, who decided that passing along a meme was called “tagging”? That person annoys me.) 7 Things that Scare Me:1. Small animals2. Large animals3. Unseen fish swimming around my legs in a lake4. The possibility of financial disaster5. Horror movies6. The…
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I received a card in the mailbox earlier this week letting me know that I had a package, so today I walked over to Strawberry Hills to pick it up. It turned out to be the skein of sock wool I won in the Give a Little Hurricane Katrina relief raffle. Unable to contain my…
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I was listening to MuggleCast on the bus today and just sorta zoning out when one of the commenters mentioned that Emerson, the guy who runs MuggleNet, goes to Notre Dame! They were speculating whether he’d be having dinner in North or South Dining Hall as they were recording the show. It was so weird…
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Oh my God; I almost wish we had a dog just so I could dress her up as Princess Leia for Halloween. I wonder if the small version would fit our cat…? (Link courtesy of my sister, who already dresses her dog up as Superman.)
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Thanks to Rob, I now have kickass (almost to the point of scariness) desktop wallpaper in the form of Miss Helen‘s Blythe dolls, Fenella and Mippy.
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Wanted: the Arrested Development theme as a midi ringtone for my phone. (You know, just like Lindsay had in the season three opener.) I can find places selling it in the U.S. but none that will work in Australia. I’ve found previews of it but they’re in mp3 format. Anybody have any ideas?
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Confession: I’ve never read anything by David Sedaris before. He falls into the nebulous group of “cool people I read about on the Internet and that all the intellectuals in the U.S. seem to fawn over and I think vaguely may have something to do with NPR but I’ve never managed to come in contact…
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Wow, some Japanese zoologists have procured the first recording of a live giant squid. I didn’t realize the damn things actually ATE WHALES. That’s scary.
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Candy Corn Soda??? I wonder if it’s possible to ship a couple cans of this stuff to Australia…
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Anybody up for a game of Frozen Walrus Carcass? Heehee. I was amused by this BBC article about words from other languages with no English equivalent. As always, the German ones are especially good. (I hope tonight’s WW meeting goes well, otherwise I’ll be all about the Kummerspeck this week!)