the everyday adventures of sabrina

• Also. @mizmoose, you crazy lunatic. The Fifth Doctor is awesome, and Butterfingers rule! So there. Nyah. :P~~~~~~ #
• And with 20 minutes left on the clock, tally still stands at three trick or treaters. Next year, am going to steal a house to give candy at. #
• @mizmoose I should note, also, that I don’t know what a Baby Ruth is like. Don’t think I’ve ever had one. Wish combo had Almond Joy instead. in reply to mizmoose #
• @mizmoose Haven’t tried the chawklit UK ones. But the US ones are CRACK. in reply to mizmoose #
• I am now up to THREE trick or treaters. One angel (w/devil Mom), one Hulk, and one teensy-tiny toddler wizard who liked crinkly wrappers. #
• @mizmoose Ah, but I notice you didn’t criticise the Smarties. Because you can’t. Smarties are AWESOME. in reply to mizmoose #
• Hooray! I finally got a trick or treater! #
• @mizmoose You are a crazy crazy person! (But I also have Baby Ruth and Smarties. And Laffy Taffy. It was an assortment!) in reply to mizmoose #
• On the bright side, though, it does make me feel less guilty for not really doing up a great costume this year. #
• Am gonna be really bummed if no trick-or-treaters even come by. :( #
• @jime60647 Wow! Nice! …next time you’re going to have backups, right? :-) in reply to jime60647 #
• Disappointing. No kids trick-or-treating here yet, 45 mins into 2 hr candy window. I even bought the good stuff for them: Butterfingers. #
• I just got an undeliverable DSN email. In re: an email I sent “6/23/2009 11:15 AM.” Go, Exchange, go. #
• Aaaa. Weight training may be paying off, but that doesn’t mean it comes without paying a price. My poor noodle arms! #
• @seanware Drat these computers! They’re so naughty and complex. I could pinch them! in reply to seanware #
• Working on school planning is tiring. Off to beddy-bye for me. #

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• @shadow Pgh must be different…I was the only one I saw all day, unless you count the newbie students in coat, scarf, & hat in 65° temps. in reply to shadow #
• @cloudlover Dude, I cannot even imaging having room for 60lbs of wool, plus space & materials to dye like you! My hero :-D in reply to cloudlover #
• @shadow Well, it’s the day before Halloween – I’d be the only one there wearing a wacky get-up! Not quite the center of attn I want to be. in reply to shadow #
• Cleaned desk off. Life is good. #
• @sanityknit At least everyone I know who’s had it already says it’s basically just ordinary flu. So that’s a comfort. Excuse to drink tea! in reply to sanityknit #
• @sanityknit Yeah. Well, no help for it now. Just have to find some way to make up the lost time. Oh, and enjoy my 2 wks off work. =) in reply to sanityknit #
• I can’t even believe I freaking took time off work to take that stupid class and it fills up the day before I register. #
• So you know that Dec class I was all adither about taking and finally decided to? Full. Wait list? Full. FML. #
• Just made my Brainiversary hotel reservations for January!!! Excited! #
• weeeeeeeeeeeekeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnd! and Happy Birfday @hubbit! #
• @hubbit @ElyssaD ITYM #tweet was a #twick :-) in reply to hubbit #
• So what happens if I post #trick? #
• Oh, and — I think I won the lunchtime poker game today! I got so much shit one time I won a hand by bluffing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! #
• @mizmoose I used to be a spy, until… in reply to mizmoose #
• What I like about listening to numbers stations recordings is that I will never, ever know if this meant anything at all to anyone. #
• The drawback to dressing up for H’ween on Friday means that if you go out after work without changing 1st, you look like a complete dork. #
• I need a new .sig: “The number & nagginess of questions you send me rather than Googling directly (& negatively) affects my response rate.” #
• @jime60647 Ohhh, I *hate* those! So much more intrusive and irritating. in reply to jime60647 #
• Software upgrades, network changes, DST ending. What a fantastic weekend for my first on-call with the new group. *twitch* #
• @cloudlover So, how much wool is in your house at any given point? :-) in reply to cloudlover #
• @Ipstenu @hubbit I only hope that English churros aren’t like Chicago fish ‘n chips: disappointing. in reply to Ipstenu #
• Fantastic news. Moving to the UK won’t mean giving up churros! http://is.gd/4IhgG #
• @Ipstenu Sure, it’s a legit technique for sorting, originated about 10 yrs ago. Loads of web forms reject it as illegal, wrongfully. in reply to Ipstenu #
• So far, I appear to be the only person who mustered any Halloween spirit for workplace dress today. Obvy, should have brought leis for all. #

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• @hubbit And knitting! in reply to hubbit #
• @hubbit *whispers* Am not going anywhere. Staying at home, but taking an intersession class — just not going to work. Kinda relaxing! in reply to hubbit #
• Yay! Vacation time is a go! I looooove you, vacation! #
• I am pleased to note that the past little while of swearing off sugar has resulted in approximately 7.6% less niqui. #
• @Southpaw Well, I’m with you on the first two. Sadly, can’t get too enthused about WS. Rather renew my #whitesox tix & think abt nxt yr :) in reply to Southpaw #
• @Ipstenu @smokes70 That is “Jeep” for “Pleeeease buy our ginormousmobile before oil hits $100/barrel again & it loses value, pleeeease!” in reply to Ipstenu #
• Mmmm nom nom. Miso soup and chirachi box from Tokyo Lunchbox = lunch yummers. Way better than regrettable eggroll any day. #
• The problem with saying things like “Maybe tomorrow I’ll get fish and chips!” is that I have yet to discover good f-n-c around here. #
• I don’t understand why Entourage asks “are you sure?” when I delete stuff from my junkmail folder, but not for *actual* email. #
• I am at a loss to explain why I want eggrolls for lunch despite the fact that I know eating at China 65 always ends in regret. #
• @hubbit Jeez! Hope they find the guy. :( in reply to hubbit #
• And the final decision was 2 bags of Smarties (personal fave), plus one big bag of chocolate bars. Hope this is enough for trick-or-treaters #
• Nearly waited too long to buy candy for H’ween; when I went ystdy, CVS was already replacing displays with Xmas stuff, argh. #
• @beth825 Cute! in reply to beth825 #
• Great. Having zombie nightmares, and I’m not even really on the stupid bandwagon. :( #
• @Ipstenu Civic? Used should be inexpensive, reliable, and hold value relatively OK. in reply to Ipstenu #

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• @sanityknit Dude, those must’ve been killer earplugs — or powerful sleepiness! in reply to sanityknit #
• Row 155 on Lilalaunetuch done! Only like 80 more to go! #
• @lorenzodeleon C’mon. We’ll get Mike to do the falsetto bits. You know you want to! in reply to lorenzodeleon #
• @mizmoose Am going to go aspartame-free, see if headache goes away, then free for a week, then drink some, & see what happens. Erk. in reply to mizmoose #
• After blissfully having no headaches for a week, am now having a drink w/aspartame and suddenly have mild headache, & a sinking suspicion. #
• Hmm. Good points, all of you. I shall foist any leftover candy off on willing recipients: Tech support. #
• Like, I don’t want to be the person that gives out one SweeTarts packet per kid, but 6 chocolate bars seems excessive. #
• Practical yet nerdy question: How do you scale Halloween candy purchases? If I expect 50 kids, how much candy should I be buying, here? #
• @cloudlover If somebody asks you if you are a god, you say…YES! in reply to cloudlover #
• Hey, @thebkwyrm, am thinking I met you, from LJ/ZConland from a few years back :) #
• @Ipstenu Dude, it was there. For like five minutes, but THERE. For reals. in reply to Ipstenu #
• Oh my God, is that *BLUE SKY* I see out the window?!?!?! #
• Should I sign up for Dec accellerated intersession class? Maybe I’ll flip a coin. #

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• Man. After class tonight, I am completely whipped. Sleep, I love you so! #
• In other news, reading about interrupts and TCP overhead, strangely, not making me want to snooze. Weird. #
• I wish I could go to LISA this year, program looks great. $employer won’t send me to conferences though. Alas. #
• @Ipstenu It goes away — I had my sore arm the day of and a little the next, but it does get better. Plus, it beats the flu. in reply to Ipstenu #
• Valuable sysadmin soft skill: Tactfully explaining that just because someone wishes you had backed up their data does not make it so. #
• @chowbok I was going to guess Aerosmith, but looks like they had a fight in the 80s. in reply to chowbok #
• Bad about today: Would a little sunshine frigging kill you, Mother Nature? Really. #
• Good about today: Found my missing usb key (& keychain!), cleverly hidden at work. #
• Most awesome wedding ever: http://bit.ly/1qX2In #
• So I got a coveted Google Wave invite. It’s very … wavey. #
• Also, got my lace alphabet pattern! Schoolhouse Press’ one, not the Piecework Mag one, tho resubbed req for that at library ystdy. #
• Got my copy of Susanna Lewis’ Knitting Lace book yesterday. Awesome book! Looking forward to having free time again. #
• Ha. Got mail from VW on a voluntary recall on the part that failed and kept me in Columbus an extra day last month! Timing is everything. #

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• Hey @lorenzodeleon, we’re doing this http://is.gd/4DfYb at work tomorrow, right? #
• Ack. I’m on call this week, first time with the new group. Uh… have you tried rebooting? #
• @explorechicago A friend is looking for Imperial pint glasses for beer at home. Any thoughts as to where he could buy them? in reply to explorechicago #
• Coworker going to hospital. Deeply worried by all this. #
• Also, am so bored by baseball postseason and ready for Fox to air new eps again. #whitesox in 2010, but for now… can has Fringe back? #
• Ok, am now tired of hobbling around like my personal trainer is issuing beatings, not reps. Can has less pain now, pls? #
• @beth825 Nice :) in reply to beth825 #
• @beth825 Gonna knit the fingerless gloves? :) in reply to beth825 #
• @Ipstenu It was 5G, actually. I want it baaaack. :( Not just because of the data on it, tho losing that stings too. (Privacy, not primacy) in reply to Ipstenu #
• I admit I’m almost more bothered by losing the snazzy keychain than the $20 usb key. But it’s the principle of the thing. #
• Grump. Think I lost my school USB key – keep all my stuff on it to shuttle between home & school. Plus has snazzy Sapphire & Steel keychain. #

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• @mizmoose For 11, you mean? Ehhh. I guess I’m mostly reserving judgment until we see how the 14 year old emo kid does. in reply to mizmoose #
• Have I mentioned I don’t really like the new TARDIS-shaped DW logo yet? ‘Cos I kinda don’t. Old school 4th Doctor diamond-shaped one FTW! #
• Also, can’t be sure just yet, but think I might have just talked myself out of my December class on account of ZOMG NEED VACATION. #
• Sadly, it wasn’t until at about 7PM Sunday night when I really felt refreshed from my week, and now the weekend’s over already. #
• @Kbcraigs Also they’re just not a very good band. At all. Under any circumstances. Ever. in reply to Kbcraigs #
• @Kbcraigs You must have missed it also when an Iron & Wine cover of “Such Great Heights” was used for M&M ads a few years back. Bleagh. in reply to Kbcraigs #
• Sad that my new banana fiber yarn is not going to work for my fingerless gloves. Too chunky. Hat maybe? Not sure. #
• Now I have Weird Al stuck in my head thanks to VC’s Sunday Song Lyric. I blame @orinkerr. #
• @suezq_WI DST ends next weekend! Enjoy the light while it lasts :) in reply to suezq_WI #

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• Should mention, after fixing mistake of this week, am on 3rd to last Lilalaunetuch motif. End is in sight! Then kettle dyeing it! #
• Feeling itchy to cast on for new lace. Going to finish one WIP for a friend instead. My willpower is frightening even myself. #
• New drive belt on the Babe. Feeling hopeful about merino again. #
• I mean, really? Criticize real policy and politics as you like, but can we not make stupid shit up just to cast new blame? Beyond lame. #
• Just read someone lambasting Obama for not closing borders & thus allowing H1N1 outbreak. Because flu germs totally respect Customs. #
• @beth825 Awesome! Soon you too will be whiling away time spent in grocery line checkouts confusing onlookers by spindling. Muahaha. in reply to beth825 #
• 10AM Saturday gym appointments always sound like such a sensible plan, except on Saturday mornings. #
• Woke up this morning with bits of Nirana’s Incesticide running through my head. Now playing: Molly’s Lips. #

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• What the hell is a ‘redress number’ and why does American Airlines want mine if I buy a ticket from them? Creepy. #
• I love how Google Docs talks about “collaborators.” Today, we are all Vichy! #
• @enjoyillinois Can you cast, like, the entirety of East Peoria, IL? in reply to enjoyillinois #
• @Ipstenu @smokes70 and speaking of “as a movie,” anyone seen the new Fame yet? I know it makes me pathetic but I still wanna see it! in reply to Ipstenu #
• @Ipstenu @smokes70 Yeah, the pregnancy storyline must end, I agree. But hiatus for baseball playoffs now, so we’ll see in November! in reply to Ipstenu #
• @smokes70 @Ipstenu @hubbit I moved here about a year before 773 got rolled out. I used to be 312 (and could be one now, but … am lazy). in reply to smokes70 #
• @hubbit Meh. With my 847 primary phone, I’ve been dialing 11 digits for like 5 years now. Not like area codes mean anything anymore anyway. in reply to hubbit #
• Argh. This most recent needle-haystack-search — not so… optimism-justifying, shall we say. #
• @hubbit you have made me so hungreeee! in reply to hubbit #
• LOL! RT @bmoyles * CityOfChicago is now known as Seattle #
• @Ipstenu I know! I watched #Glee live this week and I had to pause and go do something so I could get behind enough to skip commercials. in reply to Ipstenu #
• I feel vaguely guilty for liking a song, once I found out it’s by Robbie Williams. #
• @MrHudson, thanks for providing a soundtrack for my evening tonight. #

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• Walking home in the rain from Publican. Delicious food. Love my city so much. Chicago! #
• Tho enough time has passed you’d think novelty would wear off, I never fail to snicker through the entirety of “The Internet is for Porn.” #
• @hubbit Oh, he’s got the most awful German accent in that! You’ll laugh your head off. in reply to hubbit #
• Just saw an article w/comment from another Sabrina complaining about “teenage witch” tedium. I feel like I’ve got a kindred spirit at last. #
• mmmm, caprese salad for lunch. nom nom nom! #
• @redeyechicago But we’re not the “Second-to-someone-else” city, we’re the “Second-implementation-of-our” city, ‘cos of the Fire! in reply to redeyechicago #
• Ordered pattern for $8 from Schlhs Press, can now call off CPL interlibrary scav hunt for May/June 1998 Piecework Magazine. Phew! #
• So excited! Someone in a #Ravelry forum found a lace alphabet patt from Schlhs Press is same as mag art I’ve been trying all summer to get! #
• Overall, I like the few photos I’ve taken of my yarns w/my homemade light tent http://is.gd/4vW0m but I think I need full-spectrum lights. #

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• @lorenzodeleon Yes! Shiny! in reply to lorenzodeleon #
• Turned glee from work into the energy to go swim until I could swim no more. #
• Still rolling on the glee that comes with having figured out how to solve that problem. Teehee. Go me! I rule! #
• @WestWingReport You should point out that if y’all are to accurately report on healthcare issues, you deserve tasty fresh crisp apples too! in reply to WestWingReport #
• Yay! I fixed a problem. Go me. #
• Dear The World: It is the “gist” of an article. Not the “jest” of it. The “gist”! They don’t even sound the same! </3, –s. #
• I need something to work on that is actually compelling. #
• I want the coffee to go make itself. #

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• What I don’t want to do tonight: Go to class. What I’m going to do tonight: drag my sorry ass there anyway. But you can’t make me want to. #
• I just gave in and subscribed to @chicagosymphony again this season. As Donna Moss would say, “Yo-Yo Ma rules!” #
• Out sick yesterday, so forgot to prepare lunch to bring to work today, now faced with buying lunch for 1st time in weeks. Uncertainty! #
• Ha! @Ipstenu, now you’re going to have to watch #Glee again: http://is.gd/4sx1s *dances in the aisles* #

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• @Ipstenu gee you eye dee :) in reply to Ipstenu #
• Chicago Public Library win! Library of Congress fail. Still no lace alphabet article for me though. Yet. Boo. #
• Debating whether or not to look for clip-on lamps to use to take prettier pics of my yarnses. #
• Got email from Sen Roland Burris to talk about the issues. Unfortunately all the text was in an image. Dude, send less-stupid email. #
• I hate sneezing. I especially hate that ominous “impending sneeze” tickle. #

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• Can’t believe weekend is already over. #
• Today has been the day of hering US rotation of stuff I’ve been hearing on #radio1 for weeks. She Wolf! #

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• Still kind of psyched over destash success. Also proud refrained from buying gorgeous handdyed laceweight I really wanted but didn’t need. #
• @chowbok No, that was SHEEPFEST! (WI Sheep & Wool Fest) In other, related news, yes, I am a giant nerd. in reply to chowbok #
• Subtracting my part of table fee & my purchases today, I came out about $130 in the black from destashing. Go go gadget garage sale! #
• I deserve a medal of honor for not spending all my munnies at #YarnCon. (Sorry, vendors.) Also, destashed tons of stuff. Tho not Louet :( #
• @lorenzodeleon we should have our own fancypants lunch and not invite them! :P in reply to lorenzodeleon #
• So far, so good destashing at #yarncon! Hope someone buys my louet tho! #
• Got all my stuff packed up and ready to haul to #YarnCon tomorrow. Garage sale table FTW! #

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• Proof of my immunizations: turned in! Registration hold: lifted! I CAN HAS WINTER QUARTER CLASSES NAO? #
• A little miffed that after more than three years painstakingly repairing some massively broken infrastructure, I don’t rate a lunch invite. #
• @margaretdawson much bettar! :) in reply to margaretdawson #
• Very, very lightheaded at the moment. Fairly unpleasant. Plus, about to have to go drive in traffic. This is no good. #
• @margaretdawson Dude. You need a new profile pic. That one is no good! #
• And it’s back to 1987 as Subwoofer Guy breaks out the Whitney Houston, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).” #
• aaaaaaaghghghghgghgh UCH bureaucracy! Could have left info to go pick up vacc records on VM! Instead I had to play fone tag for 10 days! #
• Trying to make sense of how Entourage has decided to sort my mail based on Outlook rules is…breaking my mind ‘cos it is, aparntly, random. #

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