22:38 This year, the trip to my sister's for Thanksgiving will be 2 hours, not 9. This is better.
22:57 Criminal Minds: Holy shit.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter22:11 The only vegan thing in my kitchen is the whiskey.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter06:04 Caterwauling: the sound of stray cats arguing over who has territorial rights to your patio and the magically-refilling bowl of food. Wow.
06:07 The 2 black ones are usually here. Last night I saw the gray I hadn't seen since spring. Now he's back. This triggered the cat apocalypse.
06:08 I swear, I do have other things in my life besides cats.
06:08 Like work, but that's even less interesting.
06:18 @lilibat I had a bowl on the porch and a bowl on the patio, but it's been raining and there's no cover on the patio. Porch too small for 2.
06:22 I need new refrigerator, washer, dryer, and television. Not necessarily in that order. I'll wait for after-holiday specials.
06:23 New carpet would be good too, but damn, what a PITA. I have heavy furniture.
06:30 @lilibat I have seriously considered a webcam!
11:34 Why can't I connect to the server at work? Maybe they WANT me to start my vacation early, even though I am not done with work. ... No? Dang.
11:35 Ah, the gods heard me and were kind. I am connected.
11:42 This guy has sent me detailed instructions on how to use Acrobat. Gosh, thanks. I specifically requested you to use that format. Wonder why?
13:56 I have 12 vacation days to use before year's end or lose. I'll take them all around the holiday and I'll have THREE WEEKS off work! *swoon*
18:23 The Cat. Will not. Shut up.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter19:56 Watching The Princess Bride. It's been a long time; I forgot how much I like it.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter17:08 Stray cay hangs out here a lot now, making eyes at Leo and rolling on the ground right in front of him. He yowls and freaks out. "Cooties!"
17:09 (Leo has a girlfriend.)
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter23:25 Well. At last, my principles have been irrevocably compromised. It took me a while to really let it go, but it's so worth it. What a relief.
17:01 Dear Authors, A helpful tip: Finish writing your articles BEFORE you submit them for publication.
17:02 That's a mighty fine article you wrote there, Professor. Be a shame if something ... *happened* to it.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter22:15 I hate when someone is whistling or worse, singing while standing in line or browsing shop shelves. Good grief. This isn't your living room.
23:05 @lilibat "I must take off my pants to proceed." And yet, you don't sound like you're having fun.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter06:13 I believe the origin of the phrase "hissy fit" must be a cat losing his shit over seeing another cat in his territory, outside a window.
06:16 Stray cat #1 is sitting on the planter right outside the window behind me, watching me intently. She still won't let me get near her though.
16:00 As usual, this is taking all day. How can something that's basically already done take ALL DAY to complete?
17:25 ALL DAY.
18:51 All day, and into the evening.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter11:34 This, right here, is why is better to be a grown-up than a kid: you don't have to ask permission to have chocolate cake for breakfast.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter08:39 Cats sure do eat a lot.
08:51 Favorite Christmas movie: The Ref.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterIt was enjoyable, once I found the tiny fricking theater, tucked into the side of a restaurant. The woman who organized the thing wasn't wearing what she said she'd be wearing (a charcoal cardigan is not a black jacket) and nobody looked much like their posted photos, so we all arrived at the theater and stood awkwardly in the tiny lobby, wondering if the other people were our people, until finally a girl who was not the organizer asked me my name (I was wearing what I said I would be, so I suppose I was most identifiable), and we coalesced. Gelled, as it were.
The movie was the French Coco before Chanel with subtitles, and I liked it a lot. I also discovered my French is even worse than I thought. I never knew Chanel totally reinvented women's fashion like that, 180degrees from froofy feathers and corsets to sleek and understated. They didn't show as much of her inspirations as I would've liked, but they did a good job showing how that more practical sensibility came to her. My favorite line, regarding lack of corset: "It's too loose! I can feel my fat jiggling under it!"
The woman sitting next to me made not-subtle sounds of distaste at an early scene where a man shoved his face into a woman's ample cleavage, and I thought, my god, we haven't even gotten to the actual sex. One woman later said she didn't like movies with sex and foul language, and everyone (else) agreed that Coco had basically been a whore for moving in with a guy and letting him support her when they weren't married. And then she went off for a weekend with another guy, with her patron's full consent ("Have fun!") and that guy ended up actually paying for her business start-up, so she was whoring with *two* guys at once. I said, I should be so lucky, which got the reaction you'd expect. I pointed out that this was a place and time when women were expected not to work (except for the poor ones, of course), and she'd been poor as dirt with no real chances to get out of poverty without a rich man giving her a hand up at some point, and well, they're not going to do that because she's pretty. If not for her patron and her lover, we'd never have had Chanel.
I didn't really click with anyone, but I did have a nice chat with one girl as we walked the five blocks back to where we'd parked, so that was better than going by myself. By myself, I wouldn't have even gone.
15:34 Listening to "Woke Up This Morning" is not encouraging me to do my work, oddly enough.
15:39 I just remembered had taken today as a vacation day, and yet I'm working. Maybe I should just give in and go take a nap.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter09:18 My current project: eat all the food in the kitchen before I buy more. This will have me eating canned soup and salad, and possibly cooking.
11:08 Cleaned all the expired food out of the fridge. Now, much less food than before. Or "food", in the case of bologna.
11:18 I have to finish my work before I can watch last night's Criminal Minds. When did I become my own parent? I don't like it. I'm a bratty kid.
11:29 I may need a new fridge. The icing-up/melting problem is back. I'd rather spend the $$ on a washer/dryer and stop renting them, though.
18:38 It is cold and wet and very windy. I just had to rescue my recycle bin from the apartment complex next door.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter10:54 It's Veterans Day, and I would like to thank each of them for their bravery and service.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter13:35 There are no longer episodes of Criminal Minds I haven't seen. Alas. Still, a good use of the weekend. My current TV crush: Aaron Hotchner.
16:25 Straycat#1 is coming closer. She appears on my patio, rubs her face on chairs, eats, taunts Leo. Now she's curled up asleep under the hedge.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter16:12 It's a warm and pleasant day; my rose is blooming and there are bees. Not that I mind, but it's November. Perhaps this'll be a mild winter.
16:14 There's a place here that gives rides in hot-air balloons. Sometimes I look up and there's a brightly-colored balloon or two drifting by.
16:25 I hate when people tell me not to be self-deprecating. Don't tell me what to say about me, I know me better than you do.
16:28 I get it, they're trying to be encourage my self-esteem. But "Don't say you're fat!" when I am OBVIOUSLY fat? Please. I'm stating a fact.
16:30 And no, I can't "Just wear whatever you want!" It doesn't look good on me anymore, and the whole point of wearing it was TO LOOK GOOD.
16:32 No matter how much I like the dress, knowing it doesn't look good on me does NOT help my self-esteem.
16:33 Saying "I can't wear that; it doesn't look good on me anymore now that I'm fat" is a statement of fact, not a cry for help and reassurance.
16:33 Wow, issues.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter22:17 Why are my cats so talky? They wander around whining and grumbling and chirping and muttering to themselves. They're like little old men.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter15:01 I need to go to the store. There's nothing in the fridge but ginger beer and cheese.
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter18:42 @lilibat Belated Birthday wishes! May your next year of life be wonderful!
18:43 Polling place in my new locale turns out to be the Elks Lodge right across the road. (With an elk's head on the wall, of course. Elks? Big.)
18:44 @ModernMatriarch I got about as much warning when my previous gym closed. I was in shock. I loved that gym.
18:51 FTR, not getting a flu shot. Never have, never had the flu. I'm not in a high-risk group, anyway; I'll leave the shots for those who are.
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