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• 03:11 Back from Gaming. I've now been awake for over 22 hours.
• 03:16 Off to bed at last.
• 09:56 Morning, twitter.
• 09:57 Getting ready to take my motorcycle in for service.
• 10:00 @cunningminx Sometimes my laptop will stop playing sound. So far rebooting has restored the audio.
• 18:01 Home. tired.
• 18:46 I Lolcat again: tinyurl.com/49wv4o

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Doc

I know too many people who need this shirt -- though me, I prefer being able to concentrate on what I'm doing ;)

I am still completing stuff for school and today I did some watercolors - no writing but watercolors - they turned out nifty too - I may try to scan and post them for you. I have another watercolor I need to do tomorrow and then some more painting (these are all art type painting - not house wall painting which also needs doing)

I received my Excel final test - he wants me to do it at home :))))))))))))) that is made of fabulous.

My Bio teacher - the one I've been complaining about - emailed me tonight with a study group set up for Monday. MONDAY - pfft - the bad part is they help so I will probably go - SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS

Enough is never enough.

But watercolor - Did I tell you I rather like watercolor and always have? - I want to someday be good at it.

:)

Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal is wicked fucking awesome, you guys. Organic dried strawberries and raspberries! Plus, now there is faintly pink milk in my cereal bowl. I mean, it's sugar cereal, but not on the same level as Fruit Loops (which I totally refuse to eat).

Should I have a second bowl of cereal or should I go to bed?

It happens all the time. You have something, then (suddenly) you don't. As soon as you notice it's missing, you look in all the obvious, then the non-obvious places. You search really thoroughly, but you don't find it. You need it, so you replace it.

And as soon as you've replaced it, the original reappears, in a place you've already searched (probably more than once).

So... where was it? Where do the missing things really go, then return from? Does science have any explanation, other than it's all in your head?

(For the record, my cell phone went walkies today. Tonight, I possess 2 of them...)

1704 words on Seven for a Secret tonight. We have found the plot, and it is progressing. I'm still not sure exactly how it plays out, but Sebastien is the Scarlet Pimpernel.

17,000 / 30,000 (56.7%)

If there weren't this damned convention mucking up my week, I could have this done by next Monday.

*falls over in front of the television*

For a rather small canvas bag there is still an lot of canvas yet to paint. And I'm not even painting all of it. Just...most of it. Of course, I'm being wicked ocd and painting it in crazy little patterns and shapes. It's quite satisfying, until I get bored and start painting in larger blocks of solid color. At which point I stop. But! I can totally go over the solid bits with black paint. Which is also fun.

Hmmmm. On the other hand, I have not been writing anything. Grah.

Also: dinner might be good. Ooooh! I can have mac and cheese.

Who uses the LJ jabber client consistently?

I forgot to mention that it's the neighborhood festival today.

By that I mean a festival for no real reason, just a time for sidewalk sales, some curb-side music, and brats sold by Clancy's Butcher Shop. Sometimes there's an old bus or carriaeg to give kdis a ride. Face painting. And there are garage sales around the neighborhood. It doesn't seem very busy this year.

I always ignore it.

I did manage to buy sandals today -- now I have to get used to their being slip-ons, I usually buy ones with a back strap. Yes, even in this flip-flop era (and I think of those as thongs).

Picked out some books.. I heard that Isambard Kingdom Brunel makes an appearance in the latest Thursday Next novel, so I had to get that one. Did I read the one just before? No matter. I also looked at a novel set during the Fourth Crusade, but decided to put an order in for a history of it instead. LOL that is more than typical these days!

Now to go home and have supper (Kung Pao Tofu - a co-op deli dish).

This morning:

a colorful sight at the bird feeder: three finches and and indigo bunting.

Alas, gone before I could get to the camera, the bunting.

Today, kalluna and I went for a pleasant bicycle ride along (and occasionally through) the rising waters of the Snoqualmie river. We also took advantage of a lesson learned from Art of the Table and tossed some citrus and fresh Rosemary into our water bottles before setting out.

Having exercised, and before the heat of the day became too intense (as we face the daunting prospect of temperatures into the 80s), it was time for breakfast.

Iced Jasmine Pearl Tea (with sprigs of mint from the mint plant)
Home Made Popovers with Farm Butter
Home Cured Orange Bacon
Scrambled Duck Eggs with Herbs

The CW has "redefined its target audience as exclusively 18- to 34-year-old women."

Sounds like a Moonlight audience to moi.

(Instead, they're adding only three new shows on the fall schedule, all akin to Gossip Girl. Okay, maybe it's just me, but rather than watch skinny rich bitches knife each other in the back, I would much prefer watching pretty boys with their shirts off getting bloody.

(Maybe I'm just not in the right demographic any more. *sigh*)

t’s sale time again at Night Shade Books. We’ve got a few big titles coming in, and we need to clear space in a big way! So until midnight on Sunday, May 25th, we’re offering 50% off all in-stock and forthcoming Night Shade books. Use the coupon code 50NSB2008, and there is a four book minimum order.

Not only do we have some great books, including Harry Turtledove’s After the Downfall, Tim Lebbon’s Bar None, Jay Lake’s Madness of Flowers, Graham Joyce’s How to Make Friends with Demons, and Glen Cook’s An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, coming in the next few months, but we’ve also added, for the first time, the infamous Night Shade Books Posse T-Shirts. These are printed on American Apparel sweat shop-free high quality shirts and Made in the U.S.A., and will feature a clever quote from a well-known genre personality (T-Shirts will be shipping on approximately June 15, 2008). We’ve also uncovered a handful of slip cases, for our Lord Dunsany and Manly Wade Wellman collections, that we’re making available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

And don’t forget our forthcoming anthologies: The Living Dead, Fast Ships, Black Sails, and Eclipse 2.

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Graduation: yay.
Panera: yum!
Richard: stressed tired
Aubrey: cheerful.
Me: stressed.
Plane tickets: exist.
Ride to airport: kk
Boxes: need to get moved
Photos: will post from home.
People: need to see!
Nap: should has.

Oopsie! No Boat, the shop took it back for testing...maybe tomorrow. *sigh*

...also did a fantastic interview with me, which is now up for your perusal. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this one. Go have a look.

Random pithy quote: We are all cast in the same mold, some being moldier than others.

Boat Car today, probably tomorrow too.