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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.

From the seriously awesome thewlisian_afer, one for complete mindless rage: special education kids left inside school during bomb threat. what kills me, absolutely kills me, is that the fucking administrator said that she was doing it because it was cold out and she acted "compassionately". THE FUCKING FUCK.

from the fabulous newtypeshadow: cat banned from getting post office box for not paying taxes. this is just WTF with a side of WTF.

and from mactavish (who is fantastic in too many ways to count): the joy of cephalopods. I love Mary's geography blogging in so many ways, largely because this reminds me of my dad. <3

today: bad pain day, again. cleaning + hopefully writing. and upgrading my computer to the next build of windows seven.

i've bought myself a couple of books on math, because if i do decide to go back to school to do my psych undergraduate degree (which is looking like the most realistic possibility at the moment) I'll have to take at least some math, and the higher i place on the placement test, the better off i am. the weird thing is that i'm actually pretty excited about it. given my past history with math (especially calculus) this is just weird. i'm planning on doing the same with french, because i already know a good bit of it, and uw requires you to take a certain number of foreign language credits - again, the higher i can place on the placement test, the fewer courses i'll have to take. i can't decide if this makes me well prepared, paranoid or a gigantic dork.

must work out some kind of bribery system for this. even something as silly as a star chart.

the only thing worrying me about the psych degree is that admission (and the program) is very competitive. I have good psych grades from my previous AA degree, but i know uw is harder than that and i'm kind of nervous. i'm also trying to find some kind of fallback option just in case i don't get in or decide that it's too difficult to bother. augh.