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So I'm sick at home with a cold again! I realised this morning that I've officially crossed the line into "boring grown up" territory, because instead of thinking "What excuse can I use to convince my boss I'm sick?" (or even better, "Can I still find that awesome Swedish pr0n site so I will have something to do?") I was saying to myself, "Hmmm, well I feel like crap and I won't get much done, but I need to be there for this meeting, and this one and this one, and the temps need a work plan, and I need to complete this report before Monday lunchtime, and will Paddy the Crazy South African skive off without me there to keep an eye on him...?"

So, so tragic. This is not how philosophy grads are supposed to conduct themselves!

The good thing is, as I mentioned yesterday, I'm teaching myself how to use Windows Speech Recognition software, along with the WSR Macros program (which is pretty user friendly, and you can do a fair amount in its XML-based format even without using scripting.) I'm just worried I'm teaching my computer (Morrigan) bad habits, as this cold is distorting my voice. She couldn't understand "status" at all, and "fire all weapons" came out as "fireball weekends". Which, admittedly, sounds pretty epic.

Oh, and more from Trollcats.com (just because-notice how I'm avoiding most of the actual troll-y ones? Yes, I'm a pussy):