Chatter.

[mrissa]

I'm feeling chattery.

What I am not feeling is focused and chattery.

Unless you've read the first ten chapters of Thermionic Night, which you haven't, and no you're not allowed yet. Then I could chatter on about whether Eija needs to be mentioned already and Tyyne introduced or not. But I can't.

So what do you want to talk about aside from that?

I got up at 4:55. I have passed through the back-to-bed stage (WOOO!) and the bleary-eyed mumbly stage. I am now in the unnaturally-bright-eyed stage. This is the mood in which I start channeling Jordan from "Real Genius." Consider that a promise or a warning, as you like.

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[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Hee. Jordan-stage is fun.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I am having a pretty good day off so far :)

Plus it's weigh-in day, which continues to be a mood brightener.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I had a day off yesterday. I cleaned the kitchen and most of the bathrooms. (markgritter finished the last of the master bathroom.)

I also did more fun things than that, and I suggest that you emulate the latter part if you're going to take part of my day off as a model.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I've already done a few fun things, so I am probably well on my way. :)

[ckd]

I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roomate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

This may explain more than one thing about markgritter and timprov, though no one has ever had to take them away in an ambulance and everything.

"No I'm not I'm disappointed, not horribly but still. It should have gone much further, much faster!...."

[ckd]

OK. If I do make it to Minicon, I will have to bring the laptop and Real Genius on DVD.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

All we have is the VHS copy.

[fitzcamel.livejournal.com]

Love that movie...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

When we met porphyrin's Roo, he was about 18 months and not destroying books. Don't know how much of a data point that is.

I also like fall walks. Haven't been bringing any strollers with, though.

[pameladean]

I planted my bulbs yesterday. I shared the order with my mother, and conscientiously gave her the little bags with the planting instructions. I snarfed the plastic plant identification tags, which also give brief instructions. But I did not get them all, and they sent me the wrong bulbs anyway, substituting species tulips for grape hyacinths. I think the species tulips will be dandy. I have some already, so there will be an echo of that very fine waterlily shape in a different set of colors. But I had a hard time being sure which bulbs were the daffodils and which were the weird puffy pink tulips. I gave Lydy the daffodils to put on the grave of the much-tried fish Julian, or at least I hope that I did. Now I'm thinking that the bulbs that looked like plain tulip were probably weird puffy pink tulip and the ones I thought were weird puffy pink tulip were actually a second set of peculiar daffodils, because I didn't order plain tulips. That I recall. I could have called my mother and asked for information, but I didn't. I had a hunt round for the packing list, but I think I must have passed that on to her as well, inadvertently. But I like surprises in the garden.

Ari chased a squirrel up a tree and tried to catch about a hundred ladybugs.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What a very nice cat.

I'm glad you like surprises in the garden. My surprises were mostly garlic mustard (noxious weed!) and the Hungarian peppers coming out all wrong. But I'm not a Garden Person, so I don't earn as many surprises.

[pameladean]

I am very tender of weeds, I'm afraid, but I try not to cosset the garlic mustard. I'm a sucker for all the brassicas, though.

My single greatest garden surprise of that sort was probably motherwort. I thought it might be delphinium and let it grow. It's quite pretty and all, native, possessed of genuine medical properties. But it gives both Lydy and me a rash, and its seedpods are very very stickery and painful, and it is a mint, which means that it spreads like mad.

Pamela

[rnb.livejournal.com]

I thought it was cool when I found out that Jordan was actually based on a real person. (Apparently, anyway, who knows how much ya kin trust this hear intarweb.)

http://www.flick.com/~liralen/liralen/liralen.html

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nifty!