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Have had a delightfully shallow weekend, mostly -- shopping, eating, baking, checking out the tree on the Boston Common, being bossy, reliving childhood, y'know. But not necessarily in that order. Just spent more time than is altogether reasonable on an extremely silly but cheerful project involving crayons -- should sleep now. Have icicle lights strung up all around the border of my room. Also have new socks. Am very satisfied. Am trying not to think too hard about exams next week.

So my laptop's hard drive has died a horrible silent death, meaning you'll be seeing less of me for a while till Dell tech support sees fit to ship me a new one. Yeah, I know, you're all crying on the *inside*. :P

[if you need to get hold of me, e-mail will be checked as usual, because I can't stand not checking.]

Thanksgiving dinner on 4th East tomorrow afternoon -- er, this afternoon, I guess, seeing as it's almost 2am. Whee! There will be four turkeys and ten pies. Oh, and, like, veggies and stuff. :P But mmm, pie. My shoofly pies didn't turn out as well as I'd have liked, but seeing as nobody here has evidently ever seen a shoofly pie before, it probably won't be noticed. :P My pumpkin pies are textbook perfect, though, which I was surprised and pleased by. There is also an apple pie and an apple pie with stuff and lemon meringue pies and I think at some point tonight/this morning there will be chocolate pies. Yay, pie. Are you hungry yet?

Somehow we decided to watch the Shrek movies tonight rather than the Kill Bill ones. Not sure how it happened, but I'm pleased, I think. I reached my movie-watching threshold after just the first, but it was good nonetheless. I love that movie.

So things have been going well, which is of course why you haven't heard from me -- nothing to whine about, what will I write? (Okay, yeah, I have things I *could* whine about, but I won't.)

Instead: midnight snowball fight in the courtyard (soaking wet and happy from the tiny first snowfall), food and more food (did you know you can make 3 loaves of french toast with $4 and patience?) and movies (I loved "The Incredibles" most of all for its dead-on and hilarious family snarking), video games projected in lecture halls, almost-legitimate gardening, long loud crazy jam session/singalong, and tomorrow we're going malling and being generally shallow. I really, really love being here.

So my grandmother e-mailed me a week or so before the election. She lives in Ohio. ( If you're flinching already, you probably don't want to read this. )

In other news, I learned yesterday (or maybe at that point it was this morning? I was writing a paper, it was pretty late) that the plural of continuum is continua. Yay, Latin! But continuums still sounds better to me.

... granted, I live in Massachusetts, which really really isn't a swing state, but hey, another vote towards the massive popular vote margin that I'm crossing my fingers that Kerry gets. (Everyone on my friends list was mentioning voting, and peer pressure runs my life. :P )

Went trick-or-treating, sort of, insofar as six college students with no small children to drag along as an excuse and no idea where the right sort of neighborhood is can do that. Ended up getting strange looks from West Campus people, eating pizza and ice cream, and then coming back more or less satisfied. Hey, it works. Last night a bunch of us put on costumes and then had no idea where to go now that we were all dressed up, so we ended up wandering around campus and putting on random skits in computer clusters. (On the grounds that anyone tooling in an Athena cluster at 10 on a Saturday night obviously needs some entertainment.) And then we went to Krispy Kreme. Oddly, we saw a lot more people dressed up last night than we did tonight.

I think I'm coming down with a cold -- I'm tired so often, it sucks. I took what I thought was going to be a brief nap today and lost my entire afternoon, and now I've got lots and lots of work to do. And I promised myself I was going to do NaNoWriMo this year and actually finish. (Even bought myself a t-shirt as extra motivation.) So I've swamped myself a bit. I'll forge through, though. Also, I appear to have crashed my phone, proving that there's a downside to cool complicated devices as opposed to simple ones. And I can't find a hard reset, so I may just have to wait for the battery to run out to get it out of its rut. Oh, and in possibly more positive news, or possibly not, I've got a bit of a crush again. Yeah, I know, it's sad, at some point I should maybe grow out of these things, he's not interested in me at all, I'm fairly sure, but it's a nice sort of mood-lifting thought to have every once in a while, in a middle-school kind of a way. :P

Should probably get back to tooling now, seeing as I have lots of physics and math due very very soon. Bah humbug.

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Okay, I was born in Boston, I've lived in Massachusetts all my life, and I just don't get it.

Grown men whacking balls and running in circles, with the goal to run in more circles than the other guys, while getting gazillions of dollars to do so. Where, exactly, is the entertainment value again?

*runs away from angry mob*

Somehow, I don't think "Interview with the Vampire" was intended to be nearly as funny as I found it. ( Itty bitty spoilers. You probably don't care 'cause you weren't going to watch this anyways. ) When it was (finally) over I decided I was going to go watch some Buffy in order to restore my faith in vampires, but I got distracted, as usual. Tomorrow. How did it get to be 2am all of a sudden?