Unfortunately my posts for the next two days are probably going to be lamenting my state of health, so I'm not going to be able to add much to your plan, Tommy.

Sophia, what's wrong with explaining to your boss in excruciating detail just how hard/impossible it is to do exactly what they're asking in the time they're foreseeing? Proper feedback to managers helps them manage better.

Crap, now I'm totally unsure whether I should do the wombat genetic engineering I was planning to do tonight.

Yay, am home from work. Should be: cleaning and preparing for ritual sacrifice. Am: going to get a haircut. Double yay!

It's like those kids who prepare such sophisticated ways for cheating on exams, and sometimes, they're so original and brilliant in facing these obstacles, they can either learn the material in a much smaller effort, or actually learn it through those preparations already and end up not needing them.

True confessions: I had an exam in uni that I was woefully unprepared for, so I carefully transcribed all kinds of notes and hints in mechanical pencil onto my grungy white plastic travel mug. Virtually invisible. And of course, by the time I'd actually done all that and went into the exam, I'd managed to somehow learn the damn stuff.

I smudged it all off right away so that I didn't end up with an ironic twist to the story.

Crap, not I'm totally unsure whether I should do the wombat genetic engineering I was planning to do tonight.

But if you don't do the wombat genetic engineering tonight, how do you know if you wouldn't have not done it anyway?

I'm going to be without internet access for at least two days.

I'll be without internet access for almost four. Unless you count me checking my e-mail on my cell, which I won't be able to do most of the time because there aren't any towers near where my parents live.

I'm sure it will be refreshing and good for me. Like detox.

My post from tomorrow:

Where are all you people? Why am I the only one at work?

Online IQ test gave me 97 once. That's some *bull*shit.

sorry, flea!

okay, retarded cooking question...I'm making pecan pie with a flour crust. Do I bake the crust first or just pour the pecan stuff in? The recipe doesn't say and Ellie is pouring flour on the floor as I speak (so no time to really research).

From a William Gibson interview:

You made your name as a science-fiction writer, but in your last two novels you've moved squarely into the present. Have you lost interest in the future?

It has to do with the nature of the present. If one had gone to talk to a publisher in 1977 with a scenario for a science-fiction novel that was in effect the scenario for the year 2007, nobody would buy anything like it. It's too complex, with too many huge sci-fi tropes: global warming; the lethal, sexually transmitted immune-system disease; the United States, attacked by crazy terrorists, invading the wrong country. Any one of these would have been more than adequate for a science-fiction novel. But if you suggested doing them all and presenting that as an imaginary future, they'd not only show you the door, they'd probably call security.

Heh.

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If it doesn't tell you to bake it first (I mean, it gives you crust instructions but doesn't mention prebaking) then you should be good to bake the whole thing all at once.