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oakenguyOhhhhh man, it's a rocky day today. I was up all night because I, of all things, *ate ice cream* before bed. For future reference, when the carton says 'Mocha Java' the key word is java, as in coffee, as in BIRDS? SHUT UP BIRDS ITS TOO EARLY I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED TO FEEL TIRED YET AAAAA I STEPPED IN THE DOG'S WATER DISH AGAIN.
So um where was I?
Rocky. Yes. That's it.
Fortunately, I guess, it's slow at work. My big project today is learning all the lyrics to "Put On Your Sunday Clothes". It's been stuck in my head since we saw WALL-E on Friday, and the only thing worse than a normal earworm is an earworm where you don't know a single word, no not one, and no matter how loving and tolerant your spouse is, listening to you scat sing it over and over, not even aware you're doing it, OH how that can test a marriage.
In fact, come to think of it, it's been since I started doing it that the waterbowl's started to migrate at night.
Nahhh. Coincidence.
Oh! Have I mentioned that Toby's intestinal whatsit has blown over, and he's back to whatever passes for normal? It's true! I could go on for about 2000 words about how happy his poo makes me these days, but even in my condition of total sleep-dep I still can recognize that as a bad idea. And now D and I, against all logic, are thinking of the imaginary money we didn't spend at the vet as 'found money'. Like, "let's celebrate by buying $3000 worth of pie and clean socks!" found money. This is a dangerous time, financially.
Okay. Back to lyrics and googling for tattoo ideas.
So um where was I?
Rocky. Yes. That's it.
Fortunately, I guess, it's slow at work. My big project today is learning all the lyrics to "Put On Your Sunday Clothes". It's been stuck in my head since we saw WALL-E on Friday, and the only thing worse than a normal earworm is an earworm where you don't know a single word, no not one, and no matter how loving and tolerant your spouse is, listening to you scat sing it over and over, not even aware you're doing it, OH how that can test a marriage.
In fact, come to think of it, it's been since I started doing it that the waterbowl's started to migrate at night.
Nahhh. Coincidence.
Oh! Have I mentioned that Toby's intestinal whatsit has blown over, and he's back to whatever passes for normal? It's true! I could go on for about 2000 words about how happy his poo makes me these days, but even in my condition of total sleep-dep I still can recognize that as a bad idea. And now D and I, against all logic, are thinking of the imaginary money we didn't spend at the vet as 'found money'. Like, "let's celebrate by buying $3000 worth of pie and clean socks!" found money. This is a dangerous time, financially.
Okay. Back to lyrics and googling for tattoo ideas.
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Date: 2008-07-09 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 05:59 pm (UTC)B: Yay, improved Toby-poo. Seriously, I'm glad the little monster is better.
C: I once had Starbucks brand ice-cream* close to bed time, and so I know of what you speak.
D: Story: When my was a teen, her family (mother, father, herself, younger brother who is my uncle in Cambridge now) went to see "My Fair Lady" when it first came out. Big family outing. For the next couple weeks, her younger brother/my uncle wandered around the house singing, "Wiv a little bit - - - Wiv a little bit--" But that was all he knew, so after a moment, he'd start again.
How he lived to middle age, I'm not sure.
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E: And now D and I, against all logic, are thinking of the imaginary money we didn't spend at the vet as 'found money'. This is known as "Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow," as defined and named by Calvin Trillan, author of Alice, Let's Eat and many other things. According to Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow, any time you consider spending money on something and then decide not to, that amount of money is now available - even if one of the reasons you decided not to was that it was too expensive. Thus: "Alice, we can't afford that." "Sure we can, we have all the money from that color TV!" (pause) "What color TV, Alice?" "The one we were looking at in the store window."
In college, I produced my Corollary of Compensatory Time Flow: if you consider doing something, but decide not to because you need to spend your time doing something else - e.g., you opt not to accompany your friends to see a movie because you need to work on a paper - you can then spend anything up to (but not including) the amount of time you would have spent on the other activity doing anything or nothing and still not have wasted your decision not to do it. (That is, even if you only get 5 minutes more work on your paper done during the time your friends were away watching the movie, you are Justified.)
* Does anyone - hush, Julian - actually want to hear my explanation for why I won't buy from Starbucks shops but will by their products in normal stores? No? Right, then.
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Date: 2008-07-09 08:08 pm (UTC)I didn't know it had HER in it until just now.
I am going to go be ill now. *shudder*
Glad to hear that Toby is better!
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Date: 2008-07-09 08:25 pm (UTC)full of goodies =D
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Date: 2008-07-09 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 12:54 am (UTC)Why are the best tattoos always Russian?