Glad I decided to stay home from school today. I'm not in huge amounts of pain like I was yesterday, but I'm still feeling not very good at all. Blargh. So I'm working on the extra credit assignment for my writing class, which involves watching an Alice film of some sort. I picked the video of Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera since I figured it would be different.

...well, I had that right. It is very, very... different. It's like being caught in someone's acid trip. With opera.

Singin' in the Rain at the Boulder Dinner Theater was wonderful and enjoyable. They did a really good job stringing the scenes together in a way that made sense for the stage and the actors were fantastic. The actual "Singin' in the Rain" musical number was very cleverly done. Everyone in the two rows nearest to the stage were issued a cheap poncho so that we wouldn't get soaked. The guy playing Don Lockwood sure had fun splashing everyone with water.

The only down side on the evening is I have been struck by some kind of random lower GI issue. I was in so much discomfort during the performance that I actually had to keep my pants unbuttoned and unzipped. I still feel absolutely awful - driving home was very, very painful. I'm hoping this clears up over night or there's no way I'm making it to school tomorrow. I don't trust the 45 minute bus ride with no potty access.

I went to Great Clips and had them whack 10 inches off my hair to donate, which means my haircut was free. What I've got left is more than enough for a ponytail and even a braid, though not quite enough to put up in a bun like I had been doing. (Though give it about an inch, inch and a half, I'll be back to stabbing my hair with wooden sticks.)

My head feels so light!

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• 14:11 Finally got my exam score for Economics. 95.2, higher than I thought. Urge to return to my slacker, class ditching ways rising... #
• 14:33 Breathe. Must remember to breathe. #
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• 07:09 Another night of really vivid dreams. This has got to stop. I feel like I haven't slept at all. #
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• 20:03 Darnit, I am going to get this econ reading done if it kills me. I want to have done something useful tonight. #
• 20:05 @Hasaphrasin Maaaaaaaaaybe. >.> #
• 20:12 @silvertales "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is." -- L. Ron Hubbard. No kidding. #
• 20:49 Looks like I actually will have to go to economics class tomorrow. Poo. #
• 21:54 @SpacePirateRil Curse you, apple crisp! #
• 22:45 @SpacePirateRil LOL. Ask him some time about when he was taking my mom's clean undies out of the washer with a set of tongs. #
• 23:30 @SpacePirateRil BBQ tongs. I bet my mom would remember. XD #

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• 10:53 did pretty good on my second econ midterm but maybe not good enough. i should probably start going to class again. bleh. #
• 12:41 except i won't make it to class today anyway since busy mornin means late lunch. having a hard time caring too. #
• 12:42 and i have officially submitted my cheshire cat essay for a writing prize. #
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Okay, my hair is officially Way Too Freaking Long. I'm seriously considering going to the barber this weekend and having them whack 12" off of it for locks of love. I should still have more than enough left for a good ponytail, and then it'll have 6 months to start growing back out for the wedding. But it's finally starting to get on my nerves.

• 07:32 @silvertales I don't think such a thing as a good homeopath exists. #
• 11:02 i just realized that i don't get christmas cake this year. :( #
• 12:09 access services took back my broken key with no problems. apparently the benson keys break like that often. #

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• 18:22 The Melting Pot was wonderful, as usual. Mike is extra adorable even after having only one alcoholic beverage. ^_^ #
• 18:23 ...and now back to typing up my geology notes for the exam tomorrow. Boo. #

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• 21:39 MacHomer is made of hilarious awesome. Google it. #

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Okay, Yahoo Groups is really, really, REALLY pissing me off. I keep getting random e-mails like this:

Hello,

I've added you to my renkqfsvf group at Yahoo! Groups, a free,
easy-to-use service. Yahoo! Groups makes it easy to send and receive
group messages, coordinate events, share photos and files, and more.


Description of the group:
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fRaqjEcFtiifDMpoBNNEPvBpPtgmZTxaKWbsMSwQDdcEGaZJWDmsQxmJfazyvmAxK\
feCfWJJdplBDYTKPlyiYpOSqmpDBPlfmTDIXQLzaucLaHUEpmROVZbfDEZpYEAozO\
VzWDwzETWWGcXGEiNarCVJaEXwvGpnFrAPKkLZWoqXclWfQAGFSbrVPOFOAXyqMfO\
tVNAnlhECY

(And yes, before you ask, these are actually for really reals from Yahoo Groups. It's not a cleverly disguised spam domain or something.)

So thankfully, I can unsubscribe from the group by replying to the message, but it's a giant pain in the ass. Because you have to reply to that e-mail, then to another e-mail. And frankly, I think it's ridiculous that I'm apparently getting added to random Yahoo groups by people that are apparently asshole spammers. Even more frustrating, I've found absolutely no way to complain to Yahoo about this since I don't have a current Yahoo account. It's pissing me off. This has got to be the sixth or seventh time this has happened.

GRRRR.

In non-annoyed news, today was a lot of fun. Mike and I headed down to Colorado Springs and saw MacHomer with Kat. It was HILARIOUS. If you ever get a chance to see it, definitely do! I was laughing the whole time. It was an awesome birthday present from Kat to see the play with her. After that, we hung out and talked and relaxed. Minmin is bigger every time I see her, I swear, and always has more and more to say.

• 07:11 Dreamed that I was a member of congress. As was the other intern from Noble. And he was a religious nut. Yeah, no idea. #
• 12:44 Spent today hearing about Fort Hood and immersed in the history of Unit 731. So I went home and wrote something fucked up. #
• 12:51 @cacodaemonia My brother sent me an invite to that. I have no idea what it is. #
• 14:40 @cacodaemonia I'll send you an invite to Wave as soon as I can. It may be a while before it lets me though, apparently. :( #
• 14:42 So now that I have Wave, I have no idea what to do with it... XD #

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• 23:20 bought a five concert subscription to the symphony for mike and i. i think it'll be really neat! #

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• 00:02 For the first time in a very long time, I am finding myself seriously contemplating quitting WoW. #
• 07:12 @trekker02 I'm starting to feel like being a GM is sucking away my will to live. Well, to play at least. :-( #
• 07:13 @SpacePirateRil Haha, well if you do let me know. I doubt I'll actually quit. I'm just feeling very stressed out. #
• 12:17 dear 53% of maine: i think 'fuck you' says it all. #
• 14:59 Algae... OF DEATH: There are a lot of things I think about, on the topic of algae. The intensely creepy hair-li.. bit.ly/3yQaHO #
• 20:35 Just had the best Italian meatloaf EVER. In food torpor. Boo, homework. #
• 20:40 Grad school application is horrifying. #
• 20:56 Blizzard made two new in-game pets at $10 each. They're adorable. WANT. It's no fair. :( #
• 21:26 @cacodaemonia About as much. I need to come up with some sort of statement of how I'm awesome and they should give me money. Joy. #

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TSO was very very cool and I'm super glad Sin took me with her for it. I liked the non-Christmas stuff best (even if it needed MORE FIRE), probably because if it's not even my birthday yet, it's way too freaking early for Christmas. But I've now bought a copy of the new CD because the stuff they played off of it was very cool.

Going to crash now.

• 13:00 Tim Tams? In Target? And made by Pepperidge Farms apparently. Weird, yet also exciting. #

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• 08:36 it is like a sheet of ice out there. fell twice during my walk. hope it melts some in the next couple of hours... #
• 08:37 also had a weird dream: was on a bus with krista while talking on the phone with george hrab. v. weird. #
• 08:37 and there was a giant spaghetti squash on the bus with us. even weirder. #
• 09:02 it was my mistake to think that today the highways would be better & i could leave home at the normal time. :( #
• 12:50 Are we going to let Joe Lieberman screw up health care reform? Hell no! Sign the petition to hold him accountable --> bit.ly/eWFb #
• 16:51 Much shopping has been accomplished, except I've discovered I only own one muffin pan. This will not do. Sigh. #

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Did so much cleaning today. So much.

• 07:37 SNOW DAY WOOHOO!!! (well, not totally, but you're out of your mind if you think I'm going to Boulder for just my econ recitation) #
• 17:57 An astronomy quiz for you!: Beautiful Universe Astronomy Quiz.I got 18/20. I blame those two missed points on t.. bit.ly/3jnYZb #

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