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I finally have something I deem important enough to take the time to actually post. I think I no longer have any idea who I am. I've been taking a Career Explorations class, trying to figure out where the hell to go from here in my college career. I am SO burned out on math and science classes right now I could spit, and I was beginning to believe that I just don't have the time and patience for them anymore. I have been contemplating getting a Women's Studies degree, not only because it would be cake, but because it would allow me philosophical discussions and growth. It wasn't until responding to a friends post in which I waxed on about the spiritual implications of the internet that it hit me...... Hard Sciences don't let you think.

God that was painful to type!

If you don't know me very well then you won't really understand this. I am a hard sciences kind of girl. The world is explained by mathematics and every other science is simply built upon it. This is my belief..... and yet.

I am seriously getting veklempt just typing about this. It's as if I am stabbing Paul Erdos in the back with every word.

But I think that what I am really missing in college right now is some mental masturbation. Some deep thinking. And the hard "true" sciences don't give you that. Ouch.

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Originally uploaded by SxySkeksis.

My baby started middle school today. She looks like she could be starting high school!! I'm so excited and scared, but mostly thrilled that I get to be here for this huge social and academic step!!

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I know a lot of my friends list can appreciate this tidbit from Found.

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Spiff-Johnson> So i bought a shirt from express men.. does that make me gay?
cool4dude> no, the fact that you have sex with men makes you gay
cool4dude> the shirt just makes you a stereotype

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10AM Whatever You Think, You're Irreplaceable

Female cube neighbor, whispering into cell: Jeff*, I woke up this morning with a naked gay man in my bed, and it wasn't you. I'm highly disturbed. Call me immediately.

Atlanta, Georgia


via Overheard in the Office, Mar 31, 2009
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Any of you girls out there have an epilator sitting on your shelf that you want to get rid of?
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I've wanted to go to DragonCon ever since I saw the pictures of the flying spaghetti monster costume, and the mass melee between Star Trek and Star Wars characters, being broken up by Reno 911..... BUT I may be really screwed this year as they just announced a Steampunk track!!!
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Challa
Recipe:
1 heaping tbls yeast
a sprinkle of sugar
2 c. warm water
Mix, cover w/ saran wrap and leave for 10 mins.
Add
1 egg
1/2 c oil
3/4 c sugar
3 c. flour
Mix
Add
1 c.flour w/ 1 tbs salt
mix
Add
2 c. flour
add 7th cup as needed
Mix and knead to a soft pliable dough.
Leave to rise 2 to 3 hours punch down and leave another 1 and half hours before braiding. After braiding leave for 30 min. and then brush on egg and bake on 350 for approx 40 min.
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Misread

I’m laughing, but I don’t think it’s funny.
People explain my words to me. They say
My face is an open book. How unfair.
Blue eyes and big teeth, that’s my face.
That’s not me. My skin says I’m Caucasian,
But maybe I want to be blue. A cool blue.
The color of tropical water rippling beneath
A palm tree shadow.
I have small ears,
Do you think that means I can’t hear you?
Well I do.
I hear you loud and clear,
And I laugh out loud with my big teeth showing
And my blue eyes squinting. Because I can hear you,
You and your tone, you condescending jokes
And your patronizing explanations.
I’m laughing, but I’m not amused.
My squinting eyes can see you. My big teeth want to bite you.
This face ain’t no open book. This face is cliff notes
To the book you never took the time to read.

Mary Elizabeth Hining
2008

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I feel like I need to take a shower to get the ICK off.

To use a phrase I've read on multiple other scathing reviews on the subject, I really wanted to like Repo, I really did!! I've seen posts about the shadowcast many times on steamfashion, and I've had more than one person tell me it was great and I would love it. Maybe my sights were set too high, but I can't imagine that my sights are capable of being low enough to really enjoy this movie. Maybe if I had watched it muted it would have been less of a train wreck. The imagery was pretty good, and Blind Mag was pretty decent even with the sound on, but that's about all I can say in favor of it. The main problem I see is that I'm pretty sure whoever wrote the music had never actually seen a musical before. It sounded like dialogue from Full House and really horrible Emo poetry set to music played by a goth kid who makes industrial midis and posts them to his MySpace. They say this will be the next Rocky Horror. A lot of you know that while I do perform in it, I think that (other than the great music) Rocky Horror is a really terrible movie in and of itself. So, other than a few loads of laundry, the only thing I got out of this experience is a new appreciation for RHPS.

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Explain to me why almost all men have answered this question as "romantic"..... I DON'T GET IT!!!

To you, which adjective best describes hopeless, unrequited love?
Possible Answers

Romantic
Foolish
Creepy

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I'm a total geek.
I just bought this shirt.

Not only a geeky gamer shirt, or a geeky science shirt.
It was designed by my first childhood crush.

It doesn't get much geekier than that folks.

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Ok, it's technically not steam, but that's not the point.
With all these gun mods going on I wanted to share a product that I think would be amazing modded. It's a vapor gun (essentially a hand held fog machine that "shoots" fog rings). From Zero Toys.


More info and styles. )

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Today I will show you how to improve the energy efficiency of your furnace and improve evenness of heat dispersal in large rooms.


Step 1: Move a large chair (or double recliner, as they are prove to collecting stuff) and clean the area it once occupied.
Step 2: Notice the warm spot on the carpet at edge of room very far from the only heating vent.
Step 3: Pull carpet back from the wall to investigate. This will be quite easy due to the care the carpet layers took to make sure that none of the carpet is actually attached to the tack strip.
Step 4: Locate open heating vent that was carpeted over.
Step 5: Remove vent cover and cut opening in the carpet.
Step 6: Replace carpet and vent.
Step 7: Enjoy the warm air that your furnace has been working so hard to create with your help by dutifully paying the gas bill. As the newly released heat is allowed to freely circulate the large room, you will notice the sense of calm and well being that can only come from a job well done!


This tip, along with today's other activity (Cleaning the desk drawer of your packrat predecessor), will be cross referenced under "Things that make you want to wash your hands", "Some people don't deserve to live", and "Things NOT to do when your allergies are acting up."


Join us next week for "Rearranging your living room to accommodate your new addition to the living space".
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The new Dr Who is younger than I am and looks like a baby!! How can I possibly stand lustfully behind the Doctor when I feel like I'm robbing the cradle!?!?!?

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Here's a tiny portion of the dream I had the other night...

[info]tequiladawn 's grandpa died, so we went to bury him under the tile at a small strip mall, as per his wishes. We pull the skeleton out of the duffel bag and set it beside us on the floor of the mall. Unlike her grandpa in the waking world, this gentleman had no legs past the middle of his thighs, and was apparently pretty small as his whole length (sans legs of course) was about 3 feet.The manager of the strip mall approached and told us that we would have to put him in an airtight container before putting him under the tile, to reduce the smell (even though he's a clean skeleton for some reason).

Now remember, since this is a dream, normal laws of reality don't necessarily apply.

So our solution was to put him in a Happy Meal Box and stuff that into a rubber boot..........

Can I please have an orgy dream like [info]pigfuckinghat does next time please?

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Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs
Cafuné: the act of striking one’s hair affectionately
Lagom (Swedish):just the right amount
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Apparently LJ decided after the move that it didn't want to send me any more email notifications of responses to my posts or comments.......
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  1. Head to the basement to do laundry.
  2. Flipped on the switch to the basement light and the one down the stairs blew.
  3. Went to get a lightbulb but the only ones I have are the Renew bulbs, which I'm not wasting in the basement.
  4. Decided to switch out a bulb in the living room since I already had a chair there because I had turned the fan off (yes I need a chair to pull the fan chain, I'm tall so who ever lived here before had to be a GIANT) so that I could switch the direction for winter.
  5. Realized I should vacuum the fan before switching directions so as to not throw dust balls EVERYWHERE (can you tell I've done that before?)
  6. Grabbed the vacuum and had to empty it before using it again.
  7. Vacuumed the fan blades.
  8. Grabbed a sock.
  9. Switched the lightbulbs.
  10. Had one foot on the ground and then remembered to switch the fan direction and turn it back on.
  11. Grabbed flashlight.
  12. Went to the basement.
  13. Put in new bulb.
  14. Put in a load of laundry.
  15. Check the pilot light, out AGAIN, but can't reset it without turning off the system upstairs.
  16. Go upstairs.
  17. Turn off the system.
  18. Waited for the laundry to finish so that I can........
  1. Go to the basement to do laundy.
Did I mention there's another bulb out in the basement?
Grabs sock.
Sigh.

 

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