Thank God for Nick at Nite!

That, and my fingertips are completely numb because I glued them together with super glue. And there's paint on my fingernails. And a slice across my kuckle that keeps opening up and bleeding.

A few things you should know:

Never use a sharp knife to try and open a spray paint can.

Always start a child's school project AT LEAST a week in advance.

*wonders if non non sequiteurs are ok in an anything thread*

Are there seriously still people who don't know this is a hoax?!?! <--rhetorical question. I just thought most of my friends were smarter than this. *sigh*

My Son, My exectuioner - by Donald Hall

My son, my executioner
I take you in my arms,
quiet and small and just astir
and whom my body warms

Sweet death, small son, our instrument
of immortality
your cries and hungers document
our bodily decay

We twenty-five and twenty-two
Who seemed to live forever
Observe enduring life in you
and start to die together

[This message has been edited by Toblerone (edited February 24, 2003).]

It's awesome compared to my old desktop!

It has a 19" monitor!

In short, I'm not really happy here. The good news is that another job fell into my lap last week, pays more than twice as much, is totally flexible, and is something I actually want to do. The bad news is that it's going to be at least three weeks until I can quit, and I'll feel really guilty about quitting if I do.

Of course, last week I was miserable as all hell, unable to breathe because of my cold and bursting into tears at the slightest of provocations, so I guess this just evens things out.

We have these annoying neighbors. They cook fish 3-4 times a week. Greasy fish. When they aren't cooking fish they reused the grease and cook other things that smell like fish. It is so bad that it knocks you over in the entryway to all four apartments (one of them being mine). The problem being that we can't complain to the management because while there is stuff in the lease on noise pollution, there is nothing about smells. The other night it was so bad I was gagging in my living room.

We (the other two non-smelly neighbors and myself) are combating it with glade plug ins in the entry way and lots and lots of apple cinnamon candles (like 10-12 around the apartment) since those have the most potent scents. I have gone to pre-emptive candle lighting just in case they decide to cook. They also start cooking at about 8:30-9 at night which is just about the time that I am finished eating dinner and looking forward to a relaxing evening and then bed by about 10pm. The problem is 9:30 is when the smell is the most potent and it is getting more and more difficult to sleep through it, since I can't leave the candles on while I'm asleep!

It is highly annoying.

Hmmm...now I'm making myself hungry for Thai food.

Argh. Maybe I'll just CANCEL the research project. I don't wanna grade it anyway.

Random advice: Don't accidentally run over an open tube of blistex that you didn't realize you knocked off of your desk with your office chair.

This is such a bad sentence I apologize. I was obvious delirious just before leaving work last night!

For clarification: My elbow inadvertantly knocked the blistex off my desk. The chair (with me in it) then ran over the blistex, squirting gooeyness everywhere.

Do you drop the y and add an "i" to gooey? Gooeiness doesn't look right, neither does Gooiness.

*faints*

Viggo in bed!

Do you just not like the spices that are typically found in Indian dishes, or do you not like spicy food in general? And by spicy do you mean hot, or are you including things like cumin, corriander, ginger, etc?

I'm a big fan of Indian spicy goodness, so if you ask your friend for recipes that she likes, tell her that she doesn't have to worry about them being too spicy.

Does she know any good Biryani recipes? I don't think that Biryani is distinctively Bengali (I could be wrong about that though), but it definitely is tasty.