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*annoying Spiderman 2-esque scream*

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So Ryan’s been very odd lately. It turns out he apparently still has feelings for me, even though we broke up over a year ago, and thought that we’d be back together. He had a plan for this summer to slowly woo me again, apparently. He’s now going through all the horrible [...]

First, a smattering of what’s come across my browser tabs today:
That’s a camel, not a Caddy. The Car Domain site is very funny to browse around. Ugly cars abound. And of course you find the occaisonal funny page about camels.
I don’t work in anything but IE. Yes, some poor fool doesn’t [...]

Work sucked today. My mind was just not there at all. First I spent 2 hours making a solution of 6M gaunidine HCl, using up 3/4 of our supply in the process. First the pH meter was on the fritz, then I added too much water, then half of it took a [...]

I’m officially addicted to caffeine again. Yay!
I’ve been a little irritable all day, even after a nice lunch at Quizno’s.
Speaking of Quizno’s, when I went this afternoon with Chuck/Paul/Jason/Ryan there was not one person on the line that I recognized. This simply does not happen– I wonder where everyone went. They even [...]

Why is it that there are lots of songs about being mistreated by (ex)SO’s, but none about the other half of things? Where are the songs about how awkward everything is now that your friend asked you to marry him in a year’s time, eh? Where are the songs that have lyrics about [...]

But not appropriate for work. It’s pictures. Be Warned!
From Drew of toothpastefordinner.
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I am working to configure the new comments plugin, although for now everything should be working alright, even if it’s not very pretty. All the old writebacks should be transferred over (apparently, although they don’t appear to be so right now. But they’re still there, just replace the .comments with .writeback in the [...]

Apparently Fiona Apple covered Not an Addict by K’s Choice. I like Fiona Apple, but I don’t think her voice can correctly convey the lyrics.
^ Public service announcement and all.
BTW if you didn’t see it in my earlier post this afternoon, take a look here (not safe for work, though). This is sooooooo [...]

So I was/am talking to Sean tonight about UT2k4 mods, and I said the beauty of the engine was that it could do so many versatile things, and using it for something like World Quilting Championship 2k4 was the cool thing to do. As far as I know, this would-be-super-awesome mod does not exist.
Eg:
M-m-m-m-monster [...]

This also came from talking with Sean late last night:
The Gentle Manatee: A Haiku.

We must not eat the sea cow
–deaths from speedy boats–
but I bet he is tastey.
I went to the store with Ryan today… as it turns out the phrase “University Holliday” means “the janitors will chain the doors so that you can’t [...]

At ThemeXP there’s been a problem with this one guy ripping works from two very good artists, and he keeps getting banned. He made this awesome post in the ThemeXP forums:

KelvinTran:
you too old for this man go homw to your wife
ohh ya buddabyte how old are you? i think you are older then [...]

90.8% SpamBot says, “Well, in regards to your previous question, “What was Boris Yeltsin’s first question to George Bush”… After conclusive studies I have resolved that the answer to your question may very well be, “FART”. Is this answer satisfactory to you, or shall I continue my studies?”
From 8bit, yo.
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I need to realize that I can be happy, even if Ryan isn’t. I can’t do anything to change how he feels. I can’t give in to his demands– I simply don’t return his feelings. If I were much more insecure, I would take his offer– starting the relationship back up with [...]

Everyone knows that the bacteria that makes cheese cheezey are the same bacteria that give feet their funk. I tend to dislike most cheeses because they remind me of yucky feet-smell. One exception to this rule is properly aged Muenster cheese. I have some now and I think it’s because it smells [...]

Remember the Mahna Mahna song from The Muppet Show? Apparently it’s from a softcore porn movie. :-)

I saw the dumbest bird as I was walking back from class. It flew up from the grass and straight into a streetlight. It didn’t look like anything scared it, as it was chittering happily by the creepy/phallic Monument to Something by the Stadium before taking off. I guess it was OK; it [...]

I only wear make-up when I expect not to be kissed, or when wearing a dress/skirt.

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Ryan had an ultimatum for me tonight. Choose to be friends with him, or with Sean.
Ryan was jealous, and hurt about how I’d “used” him and “misled” him in the past year, after breaking up. He’d given up two girls because he thought we could get back together, supposedly based on what my [...]

[23:11:14] Ryan: what’s it fucking matter. You’re too fucking stubborn to give me a chance, even if you wanted to. You’re a horrible fucking friend to me, maybe you should stop talking to me.

I told him unless he accepted the fact that I only wanted to be friends with him he was going to [...]

I had soooo much fun. I really missed him physically. There’s nothing better than when he holds me. :-) We went to campus to get his transcript, and then we ate at Chilli’s (I still owed him dinner from his birthday almost 2 months ago). We also picked up the rest [...]

I’m moving this Saturday! I’m scared but excited. I’m moving my bed and my dresser and the table/wingback chair that I will be using for a desk until I get a more proper arrangement worked out. I’d have to sleep under my current desk if I took it with me. Unfortunately, [...]

As terrible as it sounds, I liked the meme. I know nobody’s going to reply back (FEAR MY PASSIVE-AGRESSIVE POWERS) but I still thought it’d be fun.
The meme is to talk about 3 songs that have some meaning to you.
We Live Again – Beck. Don’t we all want to find a place where [...]

I prefer to eat most soups with some type of cracker or bread because I enjoy soaking up the remaining broth.
Story:

My biochem professor (Klebba) went to UC-Berkley for his grad work. The lab he worked in was also inhabited by a Kary Mullis, whom Klebba seemed to always see furiously typing at the typewriter [...]

For a week, anyway. Been cleaning up a little more. The place looks worse than when I started cleaning, but I’ve been tracking things in all day and packing up stuff released dirt I was unaware of. The filth is only mildly embarassing. I’m actually not too worried about different levels [...]

Here is what my room is arranged like for now:

I am sore and need to go grocery shopping. I broke the caraffe on my coffeemaker, too! Hopefully I can get one at Wal-Mart. I have more to say but I am still tired from yesterday and so will post it at a later [...]

Being without DSL has made me not so talkative. Of course, I can barely keep a conversation in real life right now, so it’s not much of a surprise I can’t get myself to post here. :-) I’ll get myself into the habit of posting again soon, but right now I’m just out [...]

Sean went to bed before I did tonight. It was very odd. I am used to talking to him for an hour or so before I go to bed. Tonight he just called to say goodnight. Which was nice, I always like hearing his voice. It just was very odd… [...]

Still tweaking and moving things around, both at the weblog and the new place.
DSL should arrive tomorrow, although I doubt it will, as I’m dealing with SBC. Hopefully, though…
Tomorrow I’m going to try to move everything that’s left in the apt out, and into the storage shed here. A lot of it will [...]

DSL /did/ arrive today! And I got my old appartment clean (mostly). I have one load of stuff left there, including a very heavy file cabinet that I’ve been meaning to put together for over two years. While I was unloading some stuff here, a dark green Mustang parallel parked horribly behind [...]