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[freckles_and_doubt]

Hey! When did it get to be May, all suddenly? Surely there are rules about that sort of thing?

I am, sudden unauthorised departure of April notwithstanding, pleased to report the following:

• Rain. Winter is apparently looming, in a way that makes me deeply happy. I had to dash to the library this morning in a light drizzle that wantonly became a downpour, as a result of which I look like a damp English sheepdog. (Although I hope I don't smell the same).
• Indecent triumph over the Powers of Darkness that reside on my computer. It is a relief to note that the random turning-itself-on trope wasn't, in fact, me sleepwalking or losing time to alien abduction of my hard-drive, but a mutant BIOS setting, which I have subsequently located and disabled all on my lonesome except for the power of Google. *flexes little, tiny geek muscle*. I'm also more or less caught up on all the missing programs and settings from the hard drive swop. Mutter.
• A couple of this batch of essays which have turned out to be astonishingly literate, which means I won't actually be forced to club to death both my classes in the interests of the human gene pool.
• Lost! It's cool! I like the way it's filmed, all fragmented, like. Although I'd be happier if the graphics card in this new hard drive didn't leave a regular grid of tiny, high-relief pimples all over the screen. That'll teach me to encourage evil bootlegs.
• Jo's game tonight, after many weeks of deprivation. I'm missing being monosyllabically obnoxious.

Comments

[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

cf. Craig and Craig, 'Aesthetic and Instrumentality: Suboptimal Unit Choice and the Processes of Mathematical Cognition,' Journal of LJ Conversations that Go Wrong, Spring 2007, pp 308-332

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

You're fantastic :D Stacey as well. Both of you can come up with such magnificent academic jargonese. I plod along using my everyday langauge and getting papers rejected by journals. I must learn to obfusticate!