1. my mouth hurts. it’s very strange, but it feels like … i feel gravity tugging down on my jaw. walking jostles my jaw, thus hurts. it’s more strange and weird than explicitly painful (though it does wear me down over time). overall, i’m not really regretting coming to work today, but i would have been happier if i had stayed home (but i would have gotten much less done, so it’s a trade-off. i’m glad to have gotten somewhere, today, on at least one project.)
  2. it’s finals week. we had a tech support request come in to restore someone’s crashed nethack session on the shell server. d. and i spent some quality time playing nethack — swear to god — so we could crash our games and learn how to recover games. we ended up going to tape to get lock files back for this user, then recovering from that. i am terribly, terribly amused.
  3. (also, it was kinda fun playing nethack. i may have to play some more. for, uh, … research purposes … yeah, that’s the ticket …)
  4. [cranky remark deleted about people at work being less than helpful]
  5. i got a parking ticket today, because i forgot to send my license plate sticker renewal in and my plates expired at the end of may. stupid city of chicago and your stupid bastard street-cleaning days drawing extra attention to my car. stupid $50 ticket. stupid stupid stupid stupidity.
  6. on the other hand, my !!!!! FINAL !!!!! car payment is scheduled to go through on the 13th. I WILL FINALLY OWN MY CAR. i have waited for that day for YEARS and it’s so close i can taste it. i think i’ll celebrate auto-ownership by taking my car to the car wash that day … it’s kinda dusty (and has a butterfly cocoon on the left rear passenger door, of all things).
  7. as you probably noticed, i’m participating in LiveJournal userinfo�secretpal_lj2. i came up with this super neat (well, i think!) idea. and i’m very excited about it. and i’m not going to tell anyone what it is. neener, neener, neeeeeeener! but it’s super neat. SUPER NEAT! and i want to go yarn shopping right now.
  8. blair is really super awesome.
  9. i am feeling totally crafty lately. i swear to you, there’s an excellent likelihood of me dragging out the sewing machine and making myself a new shower curtain or sheers for my windows or something. i may also be planting flowerboxes and painting. YOU CANNOT STOP THE CRAFT!
  10. words i find myself using a lot lately, for no apparent reason: “super” and “deeply.”
  11. that is all.