good things!

- Woodchuck Granny Smith Apple Cider. Yes, this is the grown-up kind. But it has a light, crisp taste and isn't too sweet or too beery. (I hate beer, with the very occasional exception of euro ales or corona-with-lime.)

- I found the box that my wigs are in! Too late for Halloween (and I wasn't as settled in by H'ween as I thought I would be), but... good to know. Also know where all my knitting books are.

- Finding the bondage pants I bought last year and have never worn. Nice black pants for going out dancing this week or next, right? CJ is done with her job, so we have total plans to Go Out this week or next. (May saddle momster with niecelet, bwahaha.)

- Finding the CDR discs that look like little vinyl records, on clearance.

- Thinking I might hop into NaNoWriMo again this year... I'm only 2 days behind, surely I can make all that up tomorrow. (note to self from Mr. T: THAT WAY LIES MADNESS, FOO'!)

- Going to take the first shower ever in my new bathroom. New bathroom! New! (Not as nice as my old bathroom, but plenty fine for me because it is ALL MINE.)

- Having food in the fridge, not being worried about where more will come from.

- Zine Yearbook 7 - what I *did* acquire today.

- Pepperidge Farm cookies: Brussels, orange Milano.

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new year's resolution:

(which i do not have to start keeping for about another two months, but which is serious nonetheless):

stop whining so much.

also, write more.
also, DO something with said writing. publish or perish. go to slams and open mikes. submit to things. etc.

i am a nerd, and a little bit of a dork, with occasional geek tendencies.

what do you think of this? i stole it from HERE (you don't need to get a daypass to read the lettercol, tho you will have to view the ad if you want to read the original article).

I am a nerd. I am also a dork and a geek. I think of these as three separate but related identities and have spent way too much of my free time developing discrete definitions of the three.

Nerds are defined by what they know. We tend to stick to societally acceptable topics, but dive in much deeper or cover a wider variety of subjects than most. We are the grad students of the world, the academics, researchers and general know-it-alls.

Dorks are defined by what they like. Similar to the nerd, we dive in much deeper than the average person, but the topics we pursue tend to be much more nontraditional. We learn to speak Klingon or Elvish or know the plot lines, writers, and artists of all the major comic books and most of the minor ones.

Geeks are defined by what they can do. We may not know as much as the nerd on any given topic, but we can do more with what we know. We can hook up a home theater, fix a computer, or super-charge a lawnmower. We are the tinkerers, programmers, and garage inventors.

Some broad examples of my taxonomy: Nerds get A's in AP classes. Dorks play D&D. Geeks set up LANs.

All of our incarnations have spent more time learning about stuff than we have interacting with other people, hence our reputation for social awkwardness. We are handy, interesting, and often downright annoying to have around when our specialty areas come up, but are otherwise generally avoided.

I'm a nerd/dork/geek, but that's not the entirety of my identity. I like myself and my life, and against all odds, I've managed to find a life partner who feels the same. Of course, she's a bit nerdy/dorky/geeky herself, but aren't we all?

-- Matthew Burack

but primarily because you smell.

yeah, so, i have a very upset stomach and can't seem to get to sleep. i'm probably just going to get up and go to the doctor (about my Prozac; I have to go to a walk-in clinic since I don't have a real doctor yet). either that or... do what i did saturday, get up for a while and then send myself to bed at a semidecent time with sominex or whatever. don't think i haven't been drinking herbal tea and thinking calm thoughts! it just hasn't helped much in the face of a whirring, churning stomach. blllllaaaaaahhhhhhh.

anyway, here are a bunch of interesting links for you kids. because i am endeavoring to be more interesting and creative from here on out than i've been lately, and less whiny and depressive. i don't want to be sad and annoying, i want to be happy and fun! yay! most of these are shamelessly stolen from boingboing*** or metafilter.

Radiohead: It's about bummed-out dolphins. (hilarious... 5th grade artistic responses to the Radiohead oeuvre.)

Wiggle-vision 3D Stereograms! (NSFW - burning man images, includes naked silver guy)

Daisy and Violet Hilton, glamorous conjoined twins

Day of the Dead Photos

Swanky, albeit slightly late (or 360-odd days early) Day of the Dead Links

Are Williamsburg Hipsters an endangered species?

When I misplace a human skeleton, it never takes me six years to find it.

Retro exploitation-movie posters. Mamie! Zsa Zsa! Peep Show of Paris! Female Fiends! Cat Women from the Moon!

*** Speaking of BoingBoing, Jessica Grace Wing, who used to do some writing for the old BoingBoing print zine and who was also profiled in Carla's book Net Chick (way way out of date now, but totally cool in 1996) - Jessica died of colon cancer a little while ago. She was only 32 and just beginning to gain some critical notice as a theatrical/operatic composer. I just heard about her death the other night, and it made me sad, because she was someone I'd always wanted to get to know in a peripheral online sort of way... and now she's just gone.