I like black tea with sugar. That's it.

I want to start posting here more. I miss being an active member of a good online community (alas, poor Usenet...) Y'all are amazingly good people, and I've known that for years, and I have no good reasons why I kept lurking.

ita was featured in my dreams last night, which I don't remember except her presence. (Hi, ita! we miss you!) Perhaps triggered by all the lovely photos -- thanks for gathering those, Ginger. What a beauty--and less than 10% of that beauty is external...

Yesterday I Saturday'ed like a boss: slept in, made chocolate chip pancakes topped with strawberry jam, watched half of The Desolation of Smaug, rode my bike trainer, dinner + hanging out with friends.

Today, grading labs, whee. (I now have to do at least one more section's worth before I Internet again.)

Oh my gosh, the White Tea of Kings looks awesome.

Your blends aren't available on the Adagio Europe site, Jilli. I'd love to try them! I've been very into tea recently.

coffee alarm clock

Nice. But if situated like in those photos, mine would always have cat hair in it.

So, my plantar fasciitis is indeed plantar fasciitis and not heel spurs.

Ouch. It takes time to make that pain go away, but at least it's doable.

Um, how is this student getting measurements of -1 mm?

Only two posts after I graded a section's worth of papers....either I broke the conversation like whoa, or y'all are watching the sportsball.

My assistant moved here from Chicago when we closed that office. The apartment she got is not ready, so she's staying with me for the week. It works out well, as Jason flew off to Iceland this morning. We are slounging around and watching football. Well, she's watching--I'm glancing at the screen occasionally while noodling around on the interwebs.

you need a coffee alarm clock. Possibly, we all do.

Naturally Betsy beat me to mentioning the Teasmade!

We took the family to see Paddington today, so I'm in a very British frame of mind. It's the most British movie EVER. Paddington wins in the end by keeping calm and carrying on, all while being unfailingly polite.

I rearranged my office to make room for bookcases. Now I'm loading the new bookcases with...old...books. Not *old* old, but not new to me. My books.

What the hell?! Is English my second language?

I'ma start over.

I rearranged my office.

How can one make coffee before you've had coffee? It's not even possible.

It took a lot of work, but I have trained myself to measure out, grind, and make coffee while still half asleep. I use an Aeropress, so no automatic timer coffee for me

MM, can I just say how AWESOME it is to see your pixels again?