The end of the world, and other tidbits

–There is apparently a “Which Olsen Twin Are You?” online quiz up on MSN Kidz. I'm sure the idea has been done before on Quizilla or some such place, but the fact that this is something that someone likely got paid to write and encode is really not a happy one to me. [...]

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Grr…

I'm stuck in the upper level of the library, dusting shelves. Which wouldn't be so bad, except the colder weather recently means that the thermostat has been turned up. Anyone familiar with the principles of air temperature can tell you that the upper level of a building is proportionately hotter than the lower [...]

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Interesting effects of being stressed out…

1.) All of those little classroom noises – pages turning, rustling coats, people talking, etc. – really really really freaking bug you. Eventually you just want to turn around and yell “Will you be quiet and have some respect for the teacher? She's trying to teach a class, here!”
2.) It gets really [...]

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Icon love…

So I'm looking at the stuff on my hard drive and I come across this picture that's been on there forever, and I figure hey! Let's make an icon out of it! So then of course I have to do a new post to show it off, even though there's no other real [...]

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Car troubles…

Okay, so I'm going along Egan Drive yesterday at about 65 mph, when suddenly the Chevy Lumina I'm driving (which, as it happens, belongs to Ryan's grandparents) starts to rumble. It's not a serious-sounding problem, but the steering wheel and most of the car is vibrating, which is troubling me. So I switch [...]

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And now, for your scheduled break from sanity…

Thane, our “serious” librarian (i.e. he's been here a long time and therefore takes his job somewhat more seriously than the rest of us) came by the circulation desk just now. When he saw one of my coworkers standing near me, he held up this copy of The Economist and asked us, “What does [...]

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Beauty…

There is something unaccountably beautiful about driving through the valley portion of Juneau, which is covered by low-lying clouds and therefore somewhat dark, and watching the sun suddenly break through a hole in the clouds very close to the horizon and light up the trees, the buildings, and the clouds from underneath. I'm lucky [...]

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"…I'm brave but I'm chicken shit…"

Well, my paid account expires in a couple of days. I haven't yet decided whether to shell out for another couple of months, especially since I haven't really used the icons I've made as much as I'd have liked to, but I might get creative and end up making a whole new batch that [...]

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Oh, man…

I just ran a stop sign. I wouldn't be so pissed at myself, except that it was attached to a freaking SCHOOL BUS. Filled with junior high school kids. If I'd hit one of them just because I was busy thinking about stuff that's going on in my life, I don't think [...]

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And now, a complete break from sanity…

You know that either (a) your life is boring and (b) you've been reading too much bad fanfiction when you start taking common slash-fic clichés and mentally applying them to characters in your life.  Except that there are so many – the pairing of two characters who would never even consider getting together, the utter transformation [...]

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