I go away for one weekend and there's a thousand new posts in here? A thousand? I'll see you people in three weeks or so when I finally get through them.

Also, I thought I'd have a credit card by the time the cookbook rolled around, but alas I will not. Stupid banks. Stupid me for only sending the application last week. Arse.

Pfft. I go for a two hour meeting, and there were like five posts.

I'm disappointed.

I need a better word for excavations than "holes in the ground". And the word can't be "excavations". Like, wells and, and... holes in the ground, dammit!

Also, Not!Emily and today's lady friend have decided to have dinner in here, chatting and eating while I work on my paper. Now, this is the living room, and he has every right to it. But as he didn't mention it at all, I'M NOT MOVING.

Edited: They're having dinner in here. Not in me.

Emily - from Thesaurus.com

aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window

Ditches? Crevices? Elephant-traps?

Wolfram cheated with the thesaurus. Though I like "divots."

It has to be a man-made excavation. With corners. Essentially, it's something the volume of which one could figure out with high school geometry.

Wolfram cheated with the thesaurus.

Hey! It's not cheating if you cite - it's RESEARCH.

It has to be a man-made excavation. With corners.

Basement.