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last night it was -35 degrees out. thank god the indian restaurant near here delivers!!! tonight i'm going to get:

bharta
bhindi bhaji
butter chicken
raita
rice, and the special naan with cashews and raisins

yum.

i'm loathing the "web designer" title right now. i can't get any respect lately... graphic designers think i'm a hack, and developers think i'm wasting time and bandwidth on making things look right. i did get an apology from someone today though, after a particularly brutal meeting yesterday in which i was attacked for things that *my boss* did when i wasn't even in town....
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hey, here is a story about something i did recently. note: no dolphins were puked on in the making of this story.

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when i was in Kaikoura, New Zealand, i signed up for a "swim with wild dolphins" tour called Dolphin Encounter. the way these tours work is this:...
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i am back. must sleep. hope everyone's well. even earplug, that lovable vanishing stinker. i mean that in the fondest way.

i am in the "land of the long white cloud." wow, it really stinks here!...at least, in the town where i'm staying tonight. we rented some bikes yesterday and tore around the sulphurous waters of lake rotorua. our bumpy ride took us along the beach, past many a thermal pool and holes in the ground that spewed the most noxious fumes imaginable. "health-giving mineral baths,"...
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xo

my boy is singing as prince tamino in The Magic Flute tomorrow. is it inappropriate to throw panties on stage at an opera?

don't crack up
bend your brain
throw off your mental chains

i wonder what howard jones is doing these days?

and where in god's name is earplug?

tonight i'll be skipping my ballet class to console my poor dad. seems bad things just keep happening to him.

to perk me up: django reinhardt
to make up for skipping ballet: yoga
to eat: tomato, red onion, and avocado salad
to watch later: some like it hot

my cat has a stinky ass!

hey, can anyone recommend a good book to read on a long plane ride with lots of stopovers? i know, i know, i have tons of unread books right here on my shelf. but there's nothing like buying something at the airport that i can inhale and then just abandon...

oh, one thing: it has to be a paperback....
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some finger puppets are just born evil.

last night i was at the local grocery store when i saw this: "GROW A BOYFRIEND! Watch him develop into the perfect man! He expands 3 to 4 times his size in water!" the product in question was a plasticky looking mini-man figurine about 2 inches tall.

3 to 4 times his size?!? rather disappointing, reallyas a kid wandering through the "San Francisco" novelty store...
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