I just Googled Otherkin. Uh. I'm sorry, Jilli. I hate flakes. Except Frosted and Corn.

Seska, I'm sorry you were abused by an asshole but glad for PC Barry, who is going to confuse me every time I see his name.

Tep, WTF Bruce has a son??

Toddson, eep! Glad your appendix was ectomied in time.

I didn't see anyone else's blind date advice today, but it went okay. She acknowledged that it was awkward right off, and I agreed, so we were at least both similarly at a loss as to what the hell we were supposed to talk about. But we talked for about half an hour, I think, and I have no idea how she feels, but it wasn't horrible, so I guess we'll e-mail and see whether we really like each other.

I know you guys have heard about this whole process from my end, but here are some amusing tidbits from her end. I'm the second person she's met. Sometimes her dad will call her up and give her an e-mail address for a potential future husband. Just an e-mail address, because he doesn't know his name. And the best part? She learned that she would be meeting me today on WEDNESDAY. (She was packing for the wedding and her mom was all, you know, you should take a new outfit, wink wink. I told her she looked good in it. She's cuter in person than in the pictures I saw. She looks kind of like Mindy Kaling.)

Oh! Also, apparently my parents have been including that page of Testimonials I solicited like three years ago with my biodata. She thought that they might have been from my professors.

Photos of my soon to be home: [link]

The photos just don't do justice to the true horror that is the bathroom right now. You really have to try and stand inside to truly appreciate the lack of space.

Soon, there will be "after" pictures. They will not feature reflective wallpaper or highly saturated carpetting. I am fully of DIY excitement! (And dread. The flip side of the excitement is dread).

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Erin, I think it's slightly larger than the bathroom at our old house. But only slightly. (Mostly, it's just a much better layout than Old Bathroom.)

4'8" by 6' are the dimensions of the room (including space taken up by tub.) I greatly look forward to making that 4'8" by 9'. Oh yeah!!!! Show me the elbow room!

Our bathroom is about that size. Possibly a skosh larger. (Skosh = size of a fat cat.) If the Magic House Fairy appeared and offered me the choice of more closet space (there are literally only 2 tiny closets, one in each bedroom) or a bigger bathroom, I'd take the bathroom.

And that is why i am about to plop nearly all of my remaining savings into annexing a superfluous closet into that bathroom. I revel in the possibility of having space in the bathroom for a litter box ;) it matters! And no matter how many times the contractors tried to push a shower as a FANTASTIC space saving alternative....i MUST have a tub. It is not debatable. They should be able to just look at me and understand my need for occasional soaking.

eta: i suspect my ascetic dad will walk in and say "what? this is fine. small, but fine. Why are you wasting your savings on this project?" and then my mother will walk in, shriek, and offer to help fund the remodel even though she's in worse shape financially than i am. It might be somehow gender-based, this need for a pleasant bathroom.

erin, I just added you on LJ, btw. Also, I can't wait to see how your transform YOUR house. How exciting!

hey, java, did you see my note in Natter about taking on the cable company?

Aaand I just got email from the person I was supposed to meet. (I sent her email right before I left the tea shop, saying 'Er, waited here for 90 minutes?") Whoops, silly her, she meant the other branch of this particular tea shop! Not, you know, the one I sent her the address of last night, to double-check that we were talking about the SAME PLACE.

REEDING COMPREEHENSHUN. YOU CAN HAZ?

(Look, I feel I completely justified in resorting to LolCats in this instance. grumblegrumbleOTHERKINsweetzombiejebusgrumble)

Basically this guy is saying the small pox vaccine did nothing to eradicate small pox most of his information comes from the 19th century and he pretty much glosses over the 20th except to say the small pox vaccine caused more small pox than it cured. And that the only reason the the US and other countries stopped giving the vaccine was that it killed so many people.

Oh THAT guy. I can't remember his name, but he's an ignorant crank. (Or else this is someone who follows that guy's "research". Either way, pure crackpottery.)