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Proof. Begotten from fountaingirl who'd begotten from windrose.

( Behold. )

That's right, folks. Real fake birds. And that is certainly the face of a frightened woman. Of course, she has had a considerable amount of Botox treatments. And I know I am always thinking about my handbag and hair when attacked by BIRDS OF DEATH.

It's true. It's taken me a while to figure out, despite the fact that my sister has been complaining about the problem since before I came down here. I thought it was just her computer being wanky. After all, how can signing into MSN make your internet flake like a pie crust?

But it's true. Even using Adium, signing into MSN makes my laptop's internet buck me off frequently. AIM is fine. Yahoo is fine. GTalk and Jabber, also fine. MSN, protocol of connection doom. It boggles me, truly.

The biggest spider I've ever caught! I guess she is a wolf spider? Of AWESOME? I'm feeding her flightless fruit flies.

( Spiiiiiiiider. )

There is a delicious irony in spending the afternoon in a dentist office with your drugged up mother trying to defend the mechanics of your relationship and quantify its seriousness so she won't think you are a total whore, just dying until the evening when you can sneak in a little visit between doing chores and just melt into your boyfriend's arms for a bit, only to go over there and have him break up with you. (Bonus points if just last Thursday he'd brought you a dozen roses and you had recently made fun plans to go to the art museum on Friday.) I guess I can't really blame him, though. I swear, nobody should ever listen to anything I say about relationships, because goodness gracious do I suck at them.

Bright side: the job I reeeeaaally want in San Diego is still open, and maybe now I won't be such a freaking pansy in applying, because OMG in Vegas I'm getting a little loving and it's been like forever.

I do apologize for my absence, everyone--I've been a little lost lately, but I'll see what I can do to fix that. Next post will be happy and commentable.

They asked if they flunked me if I would stay, but I said I would go lick my wounds in solitude like a dying animal.

If you want to see my oh so pretty presentation slides, they are here.

Now I have lots of wee corrections and changes to do before the document is due on Friday!

I remember some people asking, so more details:

Wednesday, May 7th. 9:00 am. JEB211A.

I have so many of them. I will never read them. I don't want to move them. I am willing to box them up and ship them to someone in the US (international depending on cost) free to get rid of them but assage the guilt I would have if I just threw them away. They are good if you like to make collages, I think. Some of them are kind of beat up. I don't know if anyone would want them, but if someone does, here they are. On the surprising chance that more than one person wants them, duke it out in the comments in a lulzy fashion or work out some sort of splittory arrangements.

Am still trying to decide whether to do this for the Science magazines. It is harder, they are so awesome and full of sciency graphs and oo. But realistically, I will never catch up with them, and they are a good chunk to move and store...woe!

Dance doggie dance! (I wonder how long it takes to train a dog to be your dance partner.)

Once upon a time, I told my mom that I really needed some new "fuzzy footies" but she didn't realize I mean polar fleece footy pajamas, she thought I meant those really fluffy socks. So she got me like SIX PAIRS of really awesome fluffy socks because she luffs me so.

However, they are not in black and white! They are in various patterns of blue and purple and pink pastel with white. The only way I to be okay wearing them is if I wear normal black and white socks under them. But that would defeat the purpose of fuzzy socks! Woe is I.

Health Databate Was Set Up to Ignore 'Abortion' (NYTimes bugmenot) ( Article text )

This (sadly) creeps me out even more than all the recent frightening governmental mechanizations aimed at reducing the ability of women to control their reproductive health, because it's the mysteriously decided upon blocking of even finding valid medical information on the topic, and the alternative search suggestions smack of a disgusting amount of doublespeak (which might not even work in the searches, if the respective articles have not been tagged that way, and there is not way to think they would be).

It probably shouldn't do that--after all, those mechanizations affect real women's lives in the US, whereas this is probably just the foolish decision of some person down the chain of authority in the institution and the dean reversed the decision as soon as he found out.

For some reason, though, it intimidates me and fills me with fear, because controlling the information people have available can be even more insidious than controlling what they can do with their bodies; people can fight against what they do know, but it's hard to make a decision when you can't even get ahold of the right information.

It creeps me out so much I'm posting about it, when normally I rely on good folks like fengi and ldragoon to inform me.

So, who here is on IJ?

( Because my beau is awesome. )

(eyeawry, I bet you would like this, so don't pass it over! No mush. Not even any text.)

Those little red bumps I get on the backs of my arms are called keratosis pilaris.

The estimated high/low in Moscow for tomorrow? 48/37*F.
The estimated high/low in Las Vegas for tomorrow? 78/55*F.

I am going to wear sandals and t-shirts all next week and flippantly neglect to wear a jacket.

My Little Ponies of the Apocalypse!

Cars to have a thank you signal, so I can satisfy my gratitude urges on the road when someone does something nice.

nebarnix says it is East German slang for cutie pie. I must now find excuses to use it.

Meanwhile, Schneckschen is a wee cute snail!