Search Results: morning
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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... and blood orange zest. Delicious jam success! Then this morning, I read a post with several ideas riffing on the theme of lemons, ...
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... morning, the California Supreme Court will announce its decision on whether or ...
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14 Mar 2020: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 comments... dough or something. When you get up in the morning to make your other pies, stir in 1/3 to 1/2 cup flour as a thickening ...
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15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 comments... defects. Draft date: August 15, 2020 At about 2 in the morning on Saturday night, I was wandering back to the hotel when I found ...
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4 Nov 2020: Evelyn Julia Brumm, Rest in Peace
Aimless: · 8 commentsMy grandmother died early this morning after a short battle with cancer. She was 85. This is not a proper ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... give me some engineering inspiration that would make my mornings more pleasant, but no. The cheapest way - the one included on ... gravel pack as possible, and hope for the best. In the morning before coffee this can end up with a fully inverted bag of beans and a ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... which appear to be professional attire in the morning, but when some slobberfaced lecher looks at you the wrong way in the ...
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3 May 2020: Another Music Meme
Whimsy: · 6 comments... the good times that we had One day upon a Sunday morning I'm up and I can take what you give Hey little girl why you wear that ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 comments... home to study it. So that's how I heard about yesterday morning's earthquake in Illinois - a bit less exciting than waking up to it, ... church bells in Boston. Are they connected to yesterday morning's event? The short answer is yes and the long answer is sort of, but ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 commentsThe man who discovered the "butterfly effect" died this morning at the age of 90. Ed Lorenz was a meteorologist; I will spare you most ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... one of those mornings where everything looks shiny and interesting - everything but the ...
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22 Oct 2020: Carnivalling
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment... no longer need to get out of bed early enough to listen to Morning Edition. So my brain is foggy about dredging up appropriate background ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 commentsI went camping this weekend in a natural disaster waiting to happen. Seven hundred and sixty thousand years ago, a volcano went off in Eastern California, covering the western United States with ash and leaving behind a 15 km x 30 km caldera. That volcan ...
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1 Mar 2020: Hey Lookit My Tooth
Personal: dentistry, teeth · 5 commentsSo this was my morning: root canal fun time! I went over to Wikipedia's article on root ...
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1 Feb 2020: And So Begins the Tedious Commentary on Hillary’s Gender
Politics: gender, Hillary Clinton, lazy journalism, sexism · 6 comments... was slow out of bed this morning, so as I got dressed I listened to KQED's Forum. They had on a bunch of ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep until 7:30. Graah! Is all I have to say ...
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25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist
Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments... I found on top of a trash bin in the Oakland Airport) this morning. Apparently they're making Desperate Housewives into a video game. Why? ...
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14 Feb 2020: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments... why "patriarchy" is a dumb word: I'm sitting here this morning drinking my joe and reading Rubin's The Traffic In Women wherein she ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU One
Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments... are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let's send the space physicists over there ...
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17 Nov 2020: Marital Rape Criminalized in Mexico, et al.
Links, Politics: games, marital rape, Mexico · 4 comments... mentioned in the t-shirt slogan contest, w00t! This morning I woke up to a total fucker of a charley horse. My leg still hurts, ...
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24 Aug 2020: Items
Personal: co-op living, rush week · 6 comments... uterus woke me up at 4:30 this morning to talk about how excited it was to be expelling its old lining. It's a ...
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7 Aug 2020: And Speaking of Bears
Meta: status updates · 5 comments... morning I'm off for a (work)week perambulating around Yosemite, throwing ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... away from them. On our way out of the country the next morning, we left the car in the airport parking lot with the key in the ...
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31 Jul 2020: Oh Yes, Minnesota
Personal: customs, Minnesota, mosquitoes, travelogue · 11 comments... the country. After having managed to sleep until 5 this morning, I went outside to revel in the stillness of a Minnesota dawn*, which ...
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29 Jul 2020: Staten Island Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · no comments... back to the ol' Federal Democratic Republic tomorrow morning - hopefully not too much more Free and Democratic than it was a month ...
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1 Jul 2020: Into My Time Capsule I Go
Meta, Personal: blog status updates, family · 3 comments... tomorrow morning I'm off to Iceland. I'm sitting next to my very attractive younger ...
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20 Jun 2020: Testing the Future
Meta: call for guestbloggers, folk music, have an mp3 · 12 comments... of future-dated posting. It should appear at 6 AM Monday morning (PST) and no earlier. If all goes well, I'll be dropping a few posts in ...
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3 Jun 2020: Mr. Clean on the Path to Anti-Feminism
Politics: capitalism sucks, domesticity, empowerfulness, funny · 16 comments... cleaning with the plea to Take Back Your Saturday Morning! Mr. Clean MagicReach is a new and innovative tool from Mr. Clean ... So, now that you won't have to spend your Saturday morning cleaning the bathroom, Mr. Clean MagicReach invites you to spend your ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 commentI've been trying this morning to think of a pretty way to illustrate the concept of seismic moment, ...
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25 May 2020: I Blame the Garlic
Whimsy: dreams, garlic, volcanoes · no comments... need more of them. My breath still smells garlicky this morning. Garlic is awesome, I should eat more of ...
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12 May 2020: Happy Juror Appreciation Week
Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 comments... of business, but they didn't request a postponement in the morning because, um, because. But they still picked the jury before I was able ...
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28 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Twelve
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 2 comments... - Sounds of Stone: Artists for Mullaghmore - The May Morning Dew Cherish the Ladies - The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone - ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Quiz
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes · 6 comments... - Sound of Stone: Artists for Mullaghmore - The May Morning Dew Fairport Convention - Jewel in the Crown - Kind ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... sunlight, and it's time for that to stop. So this morning I woke up abruptly to loud beeps, instead of gradually to the dawn; ...
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29 Mar 2020: Gah Spam!
Meta: blog status updates, comment spam · 5 comments... the server has been responding at best intermittently this morning. Or perhaps someone else was hit; with 80 sites co-hosted on the same ...
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9 Mar 2020: Gravity Comes from Pine Cones on Mount St. Helens
Links: quizzes · 6 comments... a radio for my morning drive, I can feel ignorance wrapping itself around my shoulders. It's ...
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8 Mar 2020: Bad Carma
Personal: cars, driving · 6 comments... worked fine when I bought it. Yesterday, sometime between morning and quittin' time, the turn signal relay died. So here I am this morning, driving along at 65 mph, window rolled down and making absurd ...
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1 Feb 2020: Ownership Society
Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments... but they've repeated variations on the same argument all morning. KCRW is member-supported, not member-run. I gave them money last year ...
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13 Dec 2020: In Which I Join the Establishment
Personal: caffeine, old fogeyism · 4 comments... by The Man (one of my managers said "ginormous" this morning)... I'm drinking decaf. Which ranks high among betrayals of my ...
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9 Sep 2020: The Sex Life of Staplers
Whimsy: cubicle living, investing, staplers · 3 comments... my desk! Whoa. The question now is: was I sneezing this morning because of stapler spores? The company retirement plan, which I'm ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... water was shut off at the office this morning, due to a broken something something. It's amazing how slowly something ...
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23 Aug 2020: Monday Silliness: California Creeks
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · no comments... mornings, anything will make me giggle. Abalobadiah Big ...
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10 Aug 2020: Yeah I Feel Like A Putz
Personal: cars, driving · 2 comments... jalopy owner, I threw some oil into the engine this morning. Drove to work, and got off the freeway to discover that my engine was ...
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5 Jun 2020: Psychic Coincedences Abound
Uncategorized: dreams · 1 comment... the service and arrange for pickup by a mortuary. This morning, I learned that Ronald Reagan died on Saturday! Coincedence? I think ...
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4 Apr 2020: In Which I Am Excited About Compost
Links, Personal: · 3 comments... that? My odometer rolls over in ten miles, i.e., tomorrow morning. You are all advised to steer clear of the 210 eastbound, as I will be ...
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18 Feb 2020: Spam Literary Identities
Aimless: · 1 commentIf I ever need a pen name - a real pen name, that is, one that could go on books without being laughed at - I'll find one in my inbox, trying to sell me herbal viagra. These spammer databases are fabulous! Just in the past five hours I've gotten email from ...
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22 Jan 2020: Three-Coffee Morning
Uncategorized: dreams · no comments6:32 AM: I hit the brakes just a little too late, and poke Howard Dean in his squishy pot belly (with my car, natch). He was campaigning with the parking lot attendant. I must apologize profusely until I wake up, because I'm not even one of his supporters. ...
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9 Jan 2020: Monkey Taken by Cruel Civic Ordinance
Uncategorized: monkeys · 1 comment... obnoxious Dallas Morning News registration required for this story about a monkey - my spam ...
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12 Oct 2020: Nitrate Pumped Nabokov
Meta: · 5 comments... never do, duh. There's a blacklist plugin coming tomorrow morning, hell or high water if you believe the entry title. I've gotten a few ...
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3 Oct 2020: Happy New Water Year
Personal: driving, water years · no comments... in October. With almost-spectacular timing, the gathering morning fog turned into a pathetic beady drizzle-fog today, too vigorous to ...
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3 Sep 2020: More Maps!
Aimless: · 4 comments... means and not ends (I'm not sure I do; I like maps). This morning, I've had fleeting fantasies of small groups getting together to ...
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14 Aug 2020: 135
Politics: · 2 comments... Ooooh. Aaah. I woke up late last night slash early this morning, believing for a good fifteen seconds that civilization was over. ...
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29 Jul 2020: Pinball Cardinality
Personal: · 2 comments... morning I am astonished that my alarm goes off, and I am required to get out of ... even though I just went to work yesterday. Except for the mornings when I wake up and head straight for the Extreme Pinball Video Games ...
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8 Jul 2020: Wonderful Alarm Clock
Personal: · no comments... drunk guy crashed into. They're jackhammering at 8 in the morning! It's so exciting, I hope it continues for several days. Also, why the ...
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3 Apr 2020: Colossal Squid
Links: · 3 comments... to those with a privileged IP address, sorry], and this morning watched a video on cnidarians prior to discussing various extinct ...
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5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude
Personal: · 1 comment... flying to a funeral. And that was me, Sunday night, Monday morning and today. I feel like my head is stuffed with jello-cool whip-fruit ...
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12 Jan 2020: Orange Doodle Bomb
Human Fuzzies, Links: · 3 comments... sweet dreams to you all, especially if it happens to be morning when you read this. I'm going to ...
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18 Dec 2020: I’m Unsafe
Personal: · 2 comments... my luggage is the sort of thing I don't notice at 5 in the morning, you see, unless the check-in lady asks). That lackluster anecdote ...
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17 Dec 2020: None the Wiser
Personal: · 9 comments... minus all four of my wisdom teeth, which were removed this morning while I was under heavy sedation. Very heavy sedation - I don't ...
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21 Aug 2020: Old Forgotten Someones
Meta: · no comments... shoe-partners I have, so it's a wash. Martians made my morning miserable. That's because you didn't brush your teeth with a Mars ...
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25 Jun 2020: Important News
Aimless: · 2 comments... fun email from Physical Plant: This morning at approximately 6:15 a.m. the City of Pasadena suffered a temporary ... KV power feeder. That'll teach 'em to wake me up in the morning. Now if only a scrub jay could be thrown into the power plant as a ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... the black plastic was pulled off early yesterday morning to reveal plywood temples, water balloons, zip cords that shriek and ...
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22 May 2020: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Personal: · 4 comments... and unlimited, like I could be in Tijuana tomorrow morning eating gut-searing birria and catching up on my Mexican slang. Or ... less often than it used to, how it makes me wake up in the mornings, how it protests when I pull an all-nighter, how it makes me coo at ...
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17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no comments... at the free-flowing bar. I was sitting in the lounge this morning, finishing up some math, when a man in a "50th year reunion" ribbon ...
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12 May 2020: Someone Saves Me
Meta: · no comments... do you do with a drunken sailor early in the morning? NEED URGENT RESPONSE Shave his belly with a rusty razor, among other ...
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4 May 2020: Someone Has Me Figured Out
Meta: · no comments... the superlatively random, yet often funny, results of a morning comic-strip-creating exercise. Continuing with the inbox purge, some ...
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22 Apr 2020: Magickal Transmutations
Human Fuzzies, Personal: bruises, capitalism sucks, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities · 2 comments... bruises enjoy. But instead, when I woke up this morning, it had migrated to the top of my skin and become an ugly, parasitic, ...
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26 Mar 2020: Outright Theft
Aimless: dreams · 2 comments... inner smugness. Usually my dreams have plots from Saturday morning cartoons, and I save the world or run away from robots. So I've started ...
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15 Mar 2020: Easiest Joke Ever
Whimsy: · 2 comments... changes at two-thirty in the morning. It's just before silly o'clock, so you can't get away with saying ...
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9 Mar 2020: Love That Love Dart
Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments... one of those Saturday mornings where I'm awake for no good reason, lying in bed chewing thoughtfully ...
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1 Mar 2020: rocks and a promise
Meta: puns · 2 comments... vitriol - rants that I probably won't care about in the morning blushing copper - the ones where i talk about my nipples brimstone - ...
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5 Feb 2020: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... been waking up fully aware of your surroundings every morning of your life, no matter how early "morning" was or what unfamiliar person was squealing "wakey wakey!" into your ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... three aspirin with a glass of water and call him in the morning. I think I got off lightly. One of my professors lectures in a style ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... nicknames. They are forever saying things like Good morning, and welcome to the Golden State! or Gallup will be our last stop in ...
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17 Dec 2020: trolls on pigs
Links: · no comments... and pigs? Or maybe you have a cosmology exam tomorrow morning that you really ought to be studying for instead. La la ...
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7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen
Personal: · no comments... surprised to find me conscious when she got up to make the morning coffee. Ever since, I've felt an occasional compulsion to just do ... of any proper non-scholastic all nighter: coffee with a morning person, sunrise at a reasonable hour, the chance to go to bed once the ...
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4 Dec 2020: when my head hits the rift pillow
Personal: procrastinating, the scientific lifestyle · no comments... paper writing binge. I'm going to hate myself in the morning, of course, but for now I'm in comfortable possession of a computer, a ...
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2 Dec 2020: Jar O’ Fish
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish food, herring · no commentsI also bought my first ever jar of pickled herring yesterday afternoon. It felt like some sort of milestone, as though I had passed through veils of mystery surrounding the holiest of holy horrible tastes which can only be appreciated after a long and ardu ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... like cooking supper, and I've been waking up each morning fiercely wishing that I could rejoin my dreams, even though I'm not ...
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21 Nov 2020: I went to the butcher
Food, Personal: cooking, Danish, thanksgiving, turkey · no comments... the entire sternum and rib cage assemblage. So tomorrow morning I will have an impromptu laboratory session in anatomy, as I sort out ...
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17 Nov 2020: uff da
Personal: Christmas, thanksgiving · no comments... to mention that I was buying "wake up early the next morning unable to go back to sleep" beer, and not "sleep until it's dark out ... ago, after finally stumbling home at around 3:30 in the morning*. I suppose I did promise to tell you all what Thanksgiving is about ...
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14 Nov 2020: tuitive
Personal: · no comments... sleepland fairly soon here, as I've got a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss the salient bits of Dansgaard-Oeschger events and the ... gas mask bicycling down the same bit of Holmensgade on two mornings in a row a couple weeks ago, but haven't seen him since. If we take ...
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9 Nov 2020: frozen hair
Personal: · no comments... far below zero here, but each time I take my shower in the morning I remember those runs in jr. high and wonder if I shouln't buy a better ... is cold. Incidentally, my arm wasn't at all sore this morning, and if I had a hangover I must've slept through it. My head is still ...
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: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no comments... anyway. And I'm very much looking forward to cheerful morning greetings from a gigantic glass of wheat beer - I don't really feel the ...
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6 Nov 2020: things about busses
Meta, Personal: boots, maps, weather · no comments... today was apparently respectable crap weather, because the morning bus was twice as crowded as usual from all the people too chicken to ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... package to make me feel loved! I started off this morning with rather high hopes for doing a little workish reading, but after ...
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15 Oct 2020: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”
Personal: trains, travelogue · no comments... on tomorrow night's train. Expect me back in town Sunday morning, dull eyed and scraggly tailed. ...
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27 Sep 2020: good morning.
Links, Personal: · no commentsWell, yes, hello. My stomach's in a bit of a knot right now, but otherwise things are usual and I'm taking my shock and bewilderment in small doses, separated by me very intensely doing mundane things like talking back to the news and thinking about laundr ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... Procrastination - "I'll understand it better in the morning anyway" 10. Apathy - "ah, whatever, fuck it" I had this taped onto my ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... would do the same job in less time, and at three in the morning, that can be frustrating. This is probably why I'm not a quantum ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... buzz from about 6 in the evening until 4 in the morning, and that adds up. See, now I'm getting bored already by my own life ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... spoken or chewed in a while. Not quite as severe as morning breath, but it's basically the same ...
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16 Jul 2020: mistaken identity
Meta, Politics: · no comments... sort of way. (To be perfectly honest, I was tired this morning, and didn't feel up to volunteering myself for heavy labor. On the ...
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14 Jul 2020: argyle sock envy
Links, Personal: · no comments... three in the morning again, and I've been visiting random other blogs, to scope out the ...
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5 Jul 2020: corn with pig dna
Meta: excess energy, introductions, pretentions · no comments... Three in the morning, and I still have to go job hunting during business hours tomorrow, or ...