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summit feast for troops and staff After the summit in Thailand was cancelled, rather than let the food go to waste they served the journalists, guards and various staff members the dinner. I don't know much about thai food (yes, i realize my license to live in Seattle is now under jeopardy - there are about seven thai restaurants within a three block radius of my apartment) but it sounds lovely. <3

twilight advertises using contact lenses okay, no matter what you think of the movie or the books, that's seriously fucking creepy. Look at the model. the whole idea gives me chills.

passenger lands plane after pilot dies. OMG.

icebreaker mission sets sail scientific american is starting a series of posts done by a couple of journalists on an icebreaker on the Bering Sea. This is the first one. (for extra bonus fun note pedantic comment which is pedantic at the beginning there.)

Found new ice-cream dessert thing (cookie bottom + ice cream + fudge) by Ben and Jerry's at grocery store. bought two packages. ice cream = srs bzns. Have new toe up socks book to play with: am pondering ripping apart caston row from just-started socks to try toe-up. Will probably do this as i tend to cast-on tightly and have found that it cuts into my leg if i do it that way. more room at the toe to play with.

Despite that i am grouchy and tired of people today. Some random person patted me on the shoulder as she got past me in the post office line. Do not like being touched by complete strangers.

have picked up 'the open focus brain' from the library. looks short. therapist asked me to read it for next session (2 weeks away). some people have asked me to review it, which i will try to do.

tomorrow visit from new neurologist. scary thing: only missed circling 3 of the dozen or so symptoms on 'neurological complaints' list. do not want. appointment is at 9:20 tomorrow morning, which is also nervewracking.

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i want to get all of these out of my tabs before i go to bed (which i'm doing at an absurdly early 10PM PDT tonight so i can get up for ohdarkfuckingthirty tomorrow and hopefully not feel more awful than usual. special mention goes to geekchick for the adorableness. <3

elephant tail hair reveals how they compete with other species, their diet, conception rates, etc. See, that's very cool. And the way they do it makes a lot of sense.

lost Aboriginal language revived. I love lost languages. They're kind of sad in a way because so few people know about the words, but if they're only a little lost, then things like this happen.

drug offers hope on Alzheimer's

first puppy Bo to arrive Tuesday this has the cutest presidential photo-op ever (at least I think so): Obama's running down a hall (presumably in the White House) with the dog. And the dog is ADORABLE, and he's all, 'hey, dad? am i doing okay, dad? how'm i doing, dad?' *flailing*

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Tried to learn Judy's Magic Cast-On. My fingers hurt and there's something small that I'm doing wrong (i think it has to do with the direction i'm wrapping the yarn on the bottom needle.) That said it goes significantly better than previous attempts to knit the same sock top-down. So it's a partial success.

new ice cream thing is known as a ben and jerry's 'flipped out!' in the vanilla fudge brownie flavor - cookie bottom, vanilla ice cream + brownie bits, fudge top. Not bad, but not spectacular. I think this is one of those things they make to convince people that they're getting more dessert than they actually are. (like i said: ice cream=srs bzns around here) We have a peanut butter and chocolate brownie fudge varietal that will probably tried tomorrow night.

I'm tired. I hope you all are doing well. I'm pretty worried about tomorrow morning's neurologist appointment. I really hope she can do something helpful.

Goodnight everyone.

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