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i am awake. this is just wrong. it's all rainy drippy dark and cold outside, and i should totally be snuggled up in bed all warm like, but no. i'm awake, and going out into that yuck instead. i wish i could just say "screw responsibilities, i'm goin' back to bed!" ~sighs~ i'd better go get my coat...

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i'm tired, i'm hungry, my foot hurts because i've got a blister, my ankle hurts because i've been favoring the side of the foot with the blister, my hair looks like the cat groomed me, my clothes look like the cat has been napping on them, and and and... i'm a mess today. just a mess.

~laughs~ but at least i got that out of my system.

i've got a ton of stuff to do next week / this week. i hope i get to all of it. tonight we're going out to dinner (because dammit, i wanna), maybe going to the grocery store, and perhaps playing some of the new word card game i got at work (board and card games 50% off. the ones on the table, not the wire fixture. get 'em while they're there). things to do tomorrow: make appointment for the kitty's annual shots, make appointment for my shot (yeah, i'm still doing that... until we figure out an alternative anyway),send inquiries after some bills i paid last week but which haven't gone away from the checking account yet, work... wheee. at least i don't have to be there until 3:30. and it's a nice (if chilly) day out now. there was something else to say, perhaps about my day, perhaps about the philisophical musings i had today at work (being sleep deprived makes me all thinky. not good thinky, mind you, but thinky all the same. it's just a shame that it negatively affects my memory so i can't remember all my thinky thoughts later), but yeah, it's all gone out of my mind now.

yeah. dinner. early dinner.

edit: oh yeah, and my neck hurts from having slept on it utterly wrong. heh. can't forget that. all right, you may return to your regularly scheduled livejournal reading now, this emergency broadcast whine is over.

wallpaper of the week (slightly late)

I just realized that I forgot to post a wallpaper of the week (installment #3) on Saturday. Yeesh, I can't even stick to a schedule I set for myself... anyhow, I'm making up for it with something a little different.

Instead of digital art, here are two images of art from the universe.
the bubble nebula
NGC 3603

Both of these images were taken with the Hubble Telescope, which, because Bush is so keen to go to Mars, may be allowed to fall into disrepair and die. This would be a horrible shame, as the telescope has produced stunning images of the world beyond our horizons and been a great boon to science. This would be a horrible shame for a number of reasons, really, but those are the two biggies. (Although, to be fair, the missions to service the telescope aren't just being cut because the budget is all wonky because of Bush and the moon. The missions to service the telescope are being cut because, to quote this article: "Experts called for a far more conservative use of the space shuttle after the loss of seven astronauts aboard the Columbia last year. President Bush's plan for a crewed mission to Mars also calls for the retirement of the shuttle fleet, so NASA is using the spacecraft only to meet its obligations to the International Space Station. The Hubble is too far out of range for emergency evacuations to the space station should it encounter problems." So, in the world of politics at least, it's safer to go to Mars than to service the telescope which is only a few hundred miles away... interesting, that). Anyhow, these are pretty, they're out there, and we can see them thanks to Hubble. I'll get off my soapbox now. Enjoy 'em.

would you like some geek with that geek?

~yawns~
i wish i had more energy in general. i can remember as a kid regularly getting up at 6 in the morning to watch cartoons. maybe if we had cable and there were cartoons on that i wanted to watch i could still do that? i rather doubt it. as it is, getting up at 6:30 this morning was utter awfulness. of course, i don't think i had a bedtime of "sometime after midnight" with additionals like time_to_sleep += standard_time - wakeup_time; (where time_to_sleep is how many additional hours it takes me to get to sleep and... well, the variable names are self-explanatory. anyhow... where was my sentence before this code break? oh yes... i didn't have a bedtime of aftermidnight with that code stuff thrown in when...) i was a kid.

i'm installing games on my computer. i like it. so far i've got wizardry8 (which looks great), arcanum (which looks pretty darn good, but i find the user interface a little clumsy), the various age of wonders and heroes of might and magic... and that's it. but i'm workin' on it! and i still have ~looks at free space~ ~giggles almost insanely~ wow, i still have a helluva lot of space available. that's so neat!

ok, geekdom done. i'm gonna have some chai and contemplate further game installing.

happy chai camper

for my birthday, (or maybe it was christmas... it was a winter happy thing, at any rate) my dad and stepmom got me this "legends of chai" sampler, with four different flavors of david rio insta-chai: chocolate chimp, elephant vanilla, tiger spice, and tortoise green tea. now, this was both a good thing and a bad thing. it was a good thing, because mmm chai, and i really like the insta-chai stuff, as it's quick and easy and i can take it to work with no fuss. it was bad because i'd never seen this particular kind in the stores up here, and if i liked it, once it was gone it was just gone.

Or so I thought...

I found this website, which is so incredibly cool I could just explode. It's got the decaf stash chai which both Todd and I like but can never find anymore, the oregon chai, the pacific chai, and a bunch of kinds i've never tried before. i'm in tea heaven. ahhh bliss.

oh, and there's also this site which sells herbal native american teas - my aunt has given me a few boxes of this over the years, and I really like some of the flavors. The "chief's delight" is super yummy. Todd refers to this tea as "indian juice", which always makes me smile, in an indian juicing sort of way.

quizzy thang

the results of that cupid test thingy

hrm...