It seems to be an epidemic of fatigue. I've been doing nothing more than skimming all over the internet to keep me occupied and ignoring chores I know need to be done. The only thing (semi)useful that I got done yesterday was getting about 800 words of fic written. And I need another 3400 by this Thursday. Oy.

Welcome zuisa! Always nice to see a delurker (when I type that word, I can't help but think of the Star Trek Red Alert sound, and imagining a Romulan bird of prey miraging into reality. I know, I'm a geek! Don't judge me!)

I fell asleep during the doc. Shir, I'll try and read that book some before resuming it.

Shir, great news wrt your site! C'mon legal eagle, respond, so Shir can start it!

ION- I'm going to try and watch some World Cup action. I have to shower and go to work here soon, so DVR, don't fail me now! Although I am 1/4 German by heritage, I'm afraid I'll be shouting Aussie Aussie Aussie!! Don't tell me how it ends, I won't get home until 4ish board time.

Haha. I must admit I didn't lurk too much before starting posting, but.... you guys are hard to keep up with! But you seemed like fun people =)

We can has new refrigerator!

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Due to a misrememberng on my part, I had to quickly dismantle the cabinet above the refrigerator alcove to fit it in, but still?

New fridge goodness.

I want to see a World Cup game, and do it in style (read: with Buffistas).

I think I'm gonna pick a wi-fi pub/bar with LCD screen, grab a beer-replacement, my laptop and ignore the looks.

You only live once, dammit. But I do want to pick a game with many eye candies to watch. The days I watched football out of pure appreciation of the game are over.

Dear headline writers,

You do no favors to yourselves and others by writing things like

Police search for missing in Ark flooding.

you guys are hard to keep up with! But you seemed like fun people =)

Don't be afraid to skip and skim when necessary, zuisa. There are plenty of times when I get home from work to find that there have been 200 posts all about shoes and cilantro so I just click on the "recent" button so I can pick up the conversation from there. After a while you kinda get the hang of it. And no one really expects people to read every post.

A moment of vanity: last night, one of the most famous artists/internet personas (the intellectual kind, yes?) in Israel DMed me on Twitter, asking me for my blog's address and the meaning of ANT.

6 hours later, I was added to 4 of his lists, including one answering the description of "deep thoughts", which has 7 other accounts on it, alongside people like Clay Shirky, Sheizaf Rafaeli, John Brockman and William Gibson, with a complimenting DM back about my writing to seal the deal.

I'm so fucking beyond honored just to be mentioned in such of a list.

There are plenty of times when I get home from work to find that there have been 200 posts all about shoes and cilantro so I just click on the "recent" button so I can pick up the conversation from there

What do you mean, you don't want to know my opinions of cilantro?!

But seriously, zuisa. We understand that you have a life someone that's not here. And we're cool with it.

I dunno, shoes and cilantro? How will I ever pull myself away?

But seriously, thanks for the welcome, everyone =)

Can I just say how awesome and educaional (and respectful) the convo between Shir and TB has been? Thanks guys!