...really helped when working on those pedigrees. 3. While I did not get everything on my to-do list done today, I did get some of it done, and that's a start. 4. Chatting with averagesmartguy , which I haven't done in ages, and having tsukinoblossom to bitch with. 5. That I actually made dinner tonight (instead of heating up a can of chili) and have leftovers for later. BONUS: ...

Grateful 5 & Help for Halloween!

... reading a paper to evaluate it as a paper to go with my assignment, but decided it's much better for something else and is very useful for that. 3. Yummy quesadillas for dinner (thanks to averagesmartguy for talking about his yummy ones, I wanted some too). And I had splurged on Mrs. Renfro's mango & jalapeno med-hot salsa. Noms. 4. Housemate's visiting dad for killing a house centipede...

Friend Fail

First off, the previous post is over 30 comments: the highest I think I've had in the last few years, probably the record to date. This is largely thanks to averagesmartguy and agaitis_byrjun and oingoing discussions of socioeconomic status and menses. So that's kinda interesting. Last night I tried to get some folks together for a birthday/help-me-take-my-mind-off-my-...

CAN

...douchecanoes. 6. Nessa decides that hanging out with the skipper of the HMS Sinkytowne failcanoe is a total waste of time and totally not worth the time and effort. And now you know. " Ass ," requested by averagesmartguy It's my great misfortune to be such an airhead that I cannot remember the movie or even when I began doing it, but some time in the last 5 years I saw a movie where ...

...returned to Aoni Onsen in mid-January, which I'd visited (and loved) the previous January. Invited averagesmartguy to meet me IRL there and although the experience wasn't what it'd been the year ... had left in the country. Went up to the northernmost tip of Honshu to hang out with averagesmartguy again, 'cause it was such a relief to have an English-speaking friend. And 'cause I'd...