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Hey, what do you know. That package arrived. Slightly charred, a little damp, and it smells like burning chemicals, (I sure the fuck am not going to try to eat the candy she sent) but more or less intact!

So, E has been saying she'd mail me a package for about 6 months now. It was originally supposed to be for my birthday (and yes, the date listed to the left is correct).

Well, she finally got around to mailing it. It arrived yesterday, and because I wasn't here to receive it, they took it over to the leasing office building and left it...
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So, no Time Travellers' conference after all. Instead I'll be going home for Mother's Day.

Sweet, but insufferably dull...


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Your word of the week, inspired by baraqiel:
PLVUQFOXVOKMPCZCHETOPVCVJXBZYCNVTGVGOKOCSSXQAWDUPLCOYIVK

Bonus points if you can decrypt it, but really, even more bonus points if you can pronounce it. Hint: it's a "classic cipher," but nothing so simple as substitution. Still, with a little bit of guess...
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Three and half more weeks before I can get out of here for a while.

In the mean time, my sister will be down for a visit when she finishes the school year. This will actually be the first time she's been down here since I moved in. I guess I should probably buy some food. That's the thing about being a typical bachelor: every...
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Time Travellers' Convention!!

I picked this out of the away message of a college acquaintance of mine: "Time travellers' convention: awesome or awkward?" That's what I'm wondering. The notion is so delightfully absurd that I kinda wanna go (8 hours' drive to Boston be damned!), and at least one of my friends agrees with me.

In summary, there is a growing change that I will...
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Well... the New Orleans trip is finalized. We are (sigh) driving down the last week of May. Yes, for those of you in the audience keeping count, that's 18 hours each way, and a total of something like 2300 miles. I'm glad we'll be taking R's car. But anyway, for everyone who would ever like to go to New Orleans, the Queen and...
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bored, bored, bored. However, it is the last week of the month, which means that soon it will no longer be a huge waste of money for me to sign up for Aikido. (The issue being that the monthly fee is not prorated.) I think it'll do me some good to get some exercise. Too much energy for a job that involves sitting in a...
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You know, for the most part I'm not disturbed by references to the morbid or macabre, but I've got to say, Kokeshi just kinda weirds me out.

I dunno. I kinda want to ask her why she named herself after strangling children, or whether she knows, but then again, if she doesn't know the unfortunate history behind the cute little dolls, I also don't want...
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It's that calm before the storm time again. Everything happens to me in spurts of a couple weeks, every month and a half or so.

The latter half of may May will contain:

J's graduation, which I have promised to attend, and her moving into the house they bought, which I have promised to aid.
A visit from E, after her graduation up in Boston....
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So, spent the weekend in Ithaca. I've decided I seriously want to move up there. What have I got to lose? Right now, I live in a horrible sprawl of a suburb, and work a mediocre job. I have friends, and I like them and enjoy spending time with them, but... I'm still lonely in a way that I'm not when I'm with R. I...
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I've been playing Katamari Damacy. My advice to anyone who reads this and also does any kind of psychadelic drugs is to do that, and turn on this game. You will be freaked out beyond all belief. I get a healthy dose of "What. The. Fuck." and I'm totally sober. Just envision a giant man in a black cape flying through the sky dropping...
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Everyone should go love Toothpaste For Dinner I am thrilled to find any comic that references Shroedinger's Cat. (see the drawing for a couple days ago. Seriously. See it. Now.)