Turned in my paper. Probably should have sat on it another day and looked over it once more. But.

I really just wanted the semester to be over, and that did it.

Now, off to do some more relaxation!

Assuming all goes well, other than some minor changes for my paper, I’ll be done for the semester after my presentation this afternoon.

Of course, Michael isn’t done until next week, but the worst for him should be over by Friday.

I’ll try not to gloat too much tonight, as I recline on the sofa with a book, dark chocolate, and strong whiskey.

I have been working on my paper and presentation.

Really!

And I don’t know why I’ve been reading all these vampire books either. Just one of those things.

Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan

The series Runaways came up as a recommendation for me several times, and it looked interesting. However, I am wary books with of teenage characters, because if they’re not well done, I find them intolerably annoying. Luckily, the characters in Runaways may be teenagers, but they were interesting, and the angst was low-level and, to be honest, understandable.

Runaways Vol 1: Pride & Joy

Runaways Vol 2: Teenage Wasteland

Runaways Vol 3: The Good Die Young

Blood Price (1991) Tanya Huff

I’m embarrassed to admit how long I’ve had this book without reading it. In fact, it’s been so long that I’m not even certain precisely how long it has been, but I’m thinking I picked it up in ’94 or ’95, along with its two companion volumes. (The price was $3.99, if that tells you anything, although I got it used.) Not that I didn’t try to start this book before. I did. A rather long time ago. However, the first chapter is rather gruesome, and I thought the book was going to be horror, so I put it back for later. It’s just that later took a lot longer to get here than I expected.

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Monday lunchtime is a good time for quizzy goodness.
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fabulist
n.
1. A composer of fables. 2. A teller of tales; a liar. [French fabuliste, from Latin fabula, fable.]

I finally e-mailed my professor and found out how to exclude cases in SPSS.

Which means that I need to do all my analyses again.

And remake all my charts.

Plus finish my presentation.

And my paper.

See ya next week!

And it’s time for a roundup of keyphrases that brought people to my website.

plush germs
and
rabies

folktales the old woman who is also a witch and missing pets
That’s too bad when the witch’s pets run off.

easter elephant toy
Okay, I thought the Easter Elephant was just something my dad did to screw with our heads (also: Christmas Elephant, Birthday Elephant, Valentine’s Day Elephant)

senic pictures of hungry
See also: Heroin chic

zombie defense
and
zombie defensive kit
See! It’s not just me who thinks we need to prepare.

tiddly duty
Am I missing something here?

how non-fiction book covers are made
By taking pictures of non-fiction items.

ogg ambient darth vader free
Wha?

a really really good moonlight one that is really really really short
I think you want to buy a noun.

what are some non-fiction book names?
What aren’t?

women stomping on bugs
That’s very… interesting.

evangelical unitarians
Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

I forgot to mention yesterday a bit of a conversation I had with my friend Kim.

It seems she discovered her neighbor spray painting his white urban attack vehicle orange.

Here’s the result:
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So I promised that I’m going to start writing more, somehow managing to completely forget the fact that I have a HUGE GARGANTUAN MONSTER end-of-the-semester project looming over me.

One that requires that I learn how to use SPSS in two weeks. (And I’ve got one week left.)

Perhaps I was a bit premature in promising more writing. Unless of course you want me to write about data analysis. (and how much is it TOTALLY SUCKING!!)

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Hmmmm… Perhaps not.

Today’s slightly disturbing incident: Going into the bathroom and seeing a latex glove in the trash.

It’s a funny thing, having your weblog under your own name. Knowing that what you write is going to be out there for anyone to read with your name right there.

Including future employers and possibly litigious current co-workers. (They might not be litigious now, but if I wrote down what I was thinking they’d probably be.)

Which is too bad, because as I may have mentioned before, y’all are missing some of my best snark. However, writing about morons at work isn’t great for continued employment, so I refrain.
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Ex Machina Vol 3: Fact v Fiction (2006) Brian K. Vaughan

Now that I’m all caught up on Ex Machina, I suppose I have a six month wait or so before the next collection comes out. Luckily, I have one or two other things around here to read.

Fact v Fiction delves a little more into Mitchell Hundred’s past, although it’s his past prior to becoming the Great Machine, rather than after the accident that gave him his ability to talk to machines.

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