Festive occasions

[flemmings]

I don't know which is happier-making, money in the mail or a sudden loss of a kilo plus when you step on the scale in the morning. As it's Sunday, you can figure for yourselves which constitutes today's happiness. As an object lesson, I lugged a 10-kilo bag of road salt home yesterday (22 pounds for the imperialists) and even factoring in the unwieldiness of road salt, like the worst kind of squashy parcel baby, the idea that I'm carrying two of those about my person now is a great impetus to virtue. The realization that I've lost half a bag of road salt since the summer is extremely satisfying. My knees certainly have ceased to grumble as much as they did.

Meanwhile, if the book is correct, it's shiny_monkey's birthday. Happy birthday, shiny_monkey!

Ganked from kickinpants:

Leave a comment here and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

lj is not mailing me comments, it seems.

1. Met you on Mike's FL which I read religiously until she changed her layout. One cannot have too many sarky lj friends. Hence the friending.

2. That fearsome beast Science as practised by the grad school elite. Given the way you write generally (allusive and elliptical) the beast looks most occult and mysterious and Revealed Only to the Chosen. 'Oh, mauvecloud? She's... one of *those*. (hisses) **Scientists!!!**'

3. You friended cat macros and metaquotes so I don't have to.

4. The head-spinning explanation of why Hokkien doesn't exist.

5. For once I already know what kind(s) of Chinese you speak at home. Why Australia?

6. He The Man. But only because it looks like the heroine of 12 Kingdoms.

7. Yeah, well...

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

2 - You know, this is exactly how I feel when Liberal Arts people talk shop.

Allusive and elliptical: not through lack of desire to enlighten or share, but because the research/academia world could be a small world indeed... ask Mike.

5 - Pratchett's Last Continent ^^ Seriously, probably the same answer to 'Why LRD?' Despite having no life aside from work, I don't do much thinking in the career development department. I just go where the money is. If I did enough thinking, I should be in Boston, the mecca of my field.