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Monday, October 16, 2006

Make Your Own Snowflake

Make your own snowflake. Quite neat.

A search for Michelle and Morgantown should bring up the one I made.

Written by Michelle at 4:49 pm    

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Friday, October 13, 2006

Yay! I Get to Be a Citizen!

Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?

You answered 100% of questions correctly. Here’s your rating:

0-20%: Maybe you’re still thinking too much about the Old Country — and that’s where you should probably be.

25-40%: Mmmm. Do you really want to be a citizen? This kind of performance isn’t going to impress those nice immigration folks.

45-60%: Not too bad, but you really need to break out the civics books again — word is, the INS is looking for an 80 percent score.

65-80%: Hey, you may make a good citizen yet! Look at your wrong answers and a little revision should do the trick.

85-100%: Welcome to the United States! (And, truth be told, you know more about this great land than most Americans.)

The one that almost threw me off asked which Amendment did NOT deal with voting rights. I got that one on a lucky guess.

(via erin)

Written by Michelle at 12:24 pm    

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Where did all this STUFF come from? Does junk have a spawning season or something? Because I don’t know where some of this crap came from.

My basement is an unmitigated disaster area. We’ve torn down a closet, and moved stuff to empty part of the basement, and that meant piling up stuff elsewhere, to the point that the rest of the basement is nearly impassable.

Despite the bags of stuff that are going in the trash or to Christian Help or to anyone that will take it off my hands, I AM going to more thoroughly go through the basement at some point in the NEAR future, and cull even more junk.

Because this is just ridiculous.

I’m sure that if I had the patience to sell things on e-bay I’d make some money off it, but I just don’t care that much. I want space, and I want it NOW.

Written by Michelle at 9:55 pm    

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Today…

I HATE COMPUTERS!

That is all.

Written by Michelle at 3:46 pm    

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Voting in WV

Don’t forget!

Voter Registration in West Virginia ENDS Tuesday, October 17th. So if you are not registered to vote, make sure to get yourself to the courthouse and do so!

Additionally, early voting starts on the 18th of October and runs through November 4th. So starting the 18th, you can go to the County Courthouse and vote early.

So there is no excuse not to vote!

Written by Michelle at 11:22 am    

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Easily Amused

Department of Justice Toilets

Okay, in context this makes sense, but I find it highly amusing out of context.
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Written by Michelle at 4:19 pm    

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2006 Ig Nobels

2006 Ig Nobel prizes were awarded!

The Peace prize was awarded to:

Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.
REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk

Written by Michelle at 7:50 am    

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Monday, October 9, 2006

Michelle is Annoying

Dad: Do you remember when we lived on Clark Street…
Michelle: Yes.
Michelle: Was there more I was supposed to remember?

Written by Michelle at 9:29 pm    

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Sunday, October 8, 2006

Mind Switch

Having OCD is a funny thing sometimes. And I mean that both as funny strange and funny ha ha. After all, if I couldn’t laugh at myself, then things could be much worse than they are. As it is, sometimes I even find it useful. I mean, I can organize the heck out of anything when I set my mind to it.

Most of the time I don’t even really notice that there’s anything different.

Of course, I’m not sure I’d know what it would feel like if I wasn’t different.

For me, it’s mostly little things. I don’t have obsessive hand washing, however, I do know how my hands feel dirty when I touch something my mind believes to be unclean.

But the things that really drive me nuts are 3-way light switches. Not all of them mind you, but the ones with multiple switches. I cannot stand it when the switches go in different directions. It bugs the crap out of me. I will walk across a darkened room or up an unlit stairwell so that the switches will be in the same direction. (That’s a fun one. I usually run up the stairs, because I imagine things in the dark corners of the basement. Things that come out when the lights are out. [This is why I don’t watch horror movies. My imagination doesn’t need the help.])

Meanwhile, the whole thing kinda defeats the purpose of having 3-way switches in the first place.

I wonder, sometimes, what is it like to go through a day and not be worried about things like that? Not to be bothered by mismatched light switches or floor tiles that are different colors. (That’s a fun one too. Because there is something “wrong” with the mismatched tiles, I can’t step on two different colored tiles at the same time.)

What is the point of this mutation I have? Why did it develop? What has allowed it to survive? What is it’s evolutionary significance? It must have some adaptive use. I mean, how else has is survived? Because I know for damned sure that just as living with OCD can at times be hard, I’m sure that living with me must often be harder still.

Don’t get me wrong though. Most days I don’t even think about the things I do. They don’t bother me, they just are. And when I do think about it, I usually laugh it off. Because there is something hilariously stupid about acting against my own self-interest.

But sometimes I do wonder, “why me?” And today was one of those days.

Why? Because Michael just repaired the 3-way switch in the kitchen. So that’s one more for me to worry about.

On the bright side, think of all the extra exercise I’ll get, walking back and forth across yet another room, to put the switches in the correct direction!

Written by Michelle at 7:42 pm    

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Friday, October 6, 2006

Turtles All the Way Down

Any Discworld readers may enjoy this Discworld cake.

Written by Michelle at 5:27 pm    

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Recycling Electronics

Almost forgot, there is an electronics recycling place in Morgantown now, PC Renewal.

Micahel took our old broken TV there, and some other miscellaneous electronics, and it cost just a couple bucks. So if you’d like to be environmentally conscious as you get rid of your old electronics, there’s now a place to do it.

Written by Michelle at 1:22 pm    

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Overheard

Female Occupational Therapy Student: “I’m good to get four showers in a week. He just really likes to be clean, doesn’t he?”

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Speaking of Random

This made me laugh. Out loud.

Armageddon Flowchart

(via Making Light)

Written by Michelle at 12:17 pm    

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Mountaineer Week

This year Mountaineer Week is Nov 3rd through Nov 12. The Craft show will be the 3d, 4th, and 5th(?).

Written by Michelle at 9:08 am    

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