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Dinner:  babaganoush, carrot salad, black-eyed peas with a tahini-onion yogurt dip, and something else...oh, salad probably.  but I didn't like the salad dressing I picked, so I ended up not eating it.  I'm being very good.  I try everything, even when I don't think i'll like it.  But B is not just a pretty face.  He's even better at cooking than being cute, so that's saying a lot.  So far I've only been disappointed by the blackbean cakes.  I think maybe I'm not a black bean kind of person--the hummus last night was also meh.  And I forgot to ask him to get white pitas next time as well.  I loved his mint-onion hummus, but I think it would have been even better with white pitas--i don't like the taste of the whole wheat ones for some reason. 

Dinner was outside on the deck again, accompanied by the remnents of tree sex.  It's not a very efficient system, I have to say.  The geek boy was visiting again and sat at the same end of the table as me.  He's currently *really* reminding me of Dave in ways I can't quite put my finger on.  They're good ways though, I can tell that much.  :)  Makes me suddenly *very* homesick for the freak table. 

I am a quarter-finalist at WotF.  Note the all important dash there.  It goes peons, quarter-finalists, semi-finalists (who get crits, apparently), and finalists for the quarter.  So I'm in a big-ish group, but not bad for my first try there.  I'd send them something else if I had anything else ready to go out.  Well, I mean, I could send them something older...I need to figure out how I'll be printing. 

But now I'm going to bed.  Love.

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I just name-dropped being a Quaker in two job applications. One because it's UU, and I want them to be jealous of my even more overwhelmingly coolness, and the other because it's a social responsibility group, so I used Quaker as code for, "Yeah, all that's really important to me too." It's also education based, so I think it would be *really* cool, though I think it's also a little fancier than I'm prepared to do just yet. But hey, I learn quickly, and that's what matters, right? Let's hope so.

The quiz I'm editing now just suggested that the Trojan War was caused by an argument between Andromache and Hector. This idea somehow really really appeals to me. Also, Andromache is the play my group made into an episode of the Jerry Springer show in my Homer and Greek Tragedy class. It was a fabulous adaptation, if I do say so myself. :)

The music industry people clearly are talking to the wrong people (probably grumpy old materialistic farts) because I just realised that in the past day I've talked to two people who have mentioned sharing MP3s, and then said, "And, I mean, if I really like it, I'll probably buy it." Perhaps they're just saying that because it's the right thing to say, but I don't think so. I bought this CD used, but since it's a 'budget CD', even new it probably would only be about $10, and I probably would have bought it anyways. Stupid music people!

My new least favorite thing to have to do is email someone I don't know here about something that I don't know anything about. I've had to do it a couple of times. Last time I had to remember what was said and write it down in such a way that the person getting the email would understand. I failed--he had to email me and the person who had said it for clarification. Today I luckily just had an email to forward. "Joanne says you'd know what to do about this." It's still annoying, cause I can't answer any questions if they have any.

The motion keeps my heart running

"The brief experimentation with tyranny was ended by"

experiment. Like they woke up one day and said, "hey, I wonder if tyranny would be a productive method of government. Maybe we should give it 6 months, see how it works out."

"Archimedes' screw was an invention that enabled the...

Answer 3: discovery of the ovaries."

Like there's any way that (don't worry, incorrect) answer choice doesn't make me cringe. I have very clear memories of a lecture on greek gynacology in college and trust me. There's one 'cure' for hysteria that would keep me calm and quiet in a hurricane rather than risk it.

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And as if I'm not annoyed enough about my feet in general, I'm guessing that I'm getting something like this. I've got a lump on the inside of my foot, immediately in front of but to the inside of my heel. And it doesn't seem to be a repeat of the exact plantars fascia problem I had before, as that's a different place and a different pain, so I'm worried that it may be something very very bad with my plantar's fascia, namely it pulling free, and developing a bone spur developing and shifting things around in there. I'm going to have go to CVS and pick up tape again. I hate taping my foot, especially in the summer, but right now it doesn't hurt when I'm walking on it, and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you very much.