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My loft is finally together! (With much, much, much help from beat_the_beaver and other friendly hall denizens.) It's a tiiiiny bit taller than EC regulations say it should be, but hopefully I'll get away with it. I forgot how much I love bunk beds -- maybe it's just the association with home, but I really like sleeping, reading, tooling, whatever, while way high up. And I now have lots more floor space too, which is really nice.

Plus, it looks like my stepsister is going to be un-grounded and able to visit after all this weekend, so there will be baking of Pie. Probably at least three, thus the capital letter. In fact, if you're reading this, you enjoy delicious fruit pie, and you're going to be around EC Saturday afternoon, leave me a comment and I'll try to remember to drop you an e-mail when it comes out of the oven -- I'm going home Sunday afternoon sometime and I'd feel better if it were eaten before then so I can put away the dishes, which may require more help than will be available on 4e alone. (Although most of the people who fall in those categories and will be reading this are already on summersalt so you'll get the e-mail whether you want it or not.)

Three more days left at work -- weird how fast perception changes from "this summer just keeps going" to "whoa, what do you mean school starts back up in three weeks?"

Went to see Zap! at the Museum of Science -- thoroughly amusing. Loud noises and bright lights and the huge Van de Graff generator which is one of my favorite things ever and bizarre music on a variety of instruments, whee! Practically formulated to hit all my "ooh, cool" buttons in rapid succession. Then the frosh-posse went on a several-hour wander around the museum, which wasn't crowded at all since by that time it was 7:30 or so -- all sorts of fun and big childhood nostalgia. We walked back, furthering my opinion that with every step I take Cambridge gets smaller and smaller. :P Though I really do love being able to get anywhere I need to via walking and/or T'ing -- hurrah!

Classes are going okay -- problem sets all around, of course, tests scheduled and stuff due, onward into the fray and all that. Oh! And (because I am the biggest geek ever) when I saw the Chronicles of Amber comics cheap on ebay I kinda couldn't resist bidding. They came today and I haven't opened them yet, but hopefully they'll be good, or at least so horrible an adaptation that they're funny. ;)

Banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are not as strange as they sound, although they could do with more spices (note to self: buy at Star?) and lots more chocolate chips (but everything is better with lots more chocolate chips).

( whine, moan, etc )

Note to self: do not ever, ever try to make meringues without a mixer again. (An hour and a half and an aching wrist and i ended up with little flat meringue disks, but they taste okay.)

Have been feeling horribly jealous of friends lately, about stupid things mostly, which is a really ugly thing and I need to try to cut it out.

I went to visit a friend staying at the medical center and I think she ended up cheering me up as much or more so than vice-versa.

I have exams on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I should be studying or sleeping but I'm not.

When my hard drive died I lost a bunch of pictures and poetry and all the archived e-mail at my MIT address, which makes me unhappy. Some things I have online, some is just gone. I should back-up stuff more often (duh). I have to re-e-mail about IAP UROP possiblilities, which I feel really embarassed about.

I love winter except for this whole darkness thing, which really makes me more unhappy than I have any reason to be.

We had Formal Cocoa and gift exchanging and stuff on Friday, and everyone was dressed up (or down), and there was much food and silliness, which made me really happy.

After having quiche at Mom's friend's wedding last weekend, Denise has decided it's her new favorite food. Or maybe it always was and this has just reawakened the craving? Either way, we decided to make some this evening. ( Wanna hear the sordid details? ) Yes, I cook when I'm bored. :P

I made cookies from scratch this afternoon, instead of cleaning or studying or exercising or doing anything at all actually useful. Butterscotch - chocolate chip cookies of DOOM, specifically.

I burned my finger doing so -- this was about five o'clock. Still hurts. (Why am I typing if I'm in such pain? Because I'm a masochist, probably.)

The cookies were worth it, though. Possibly the best thing I've ever baked, not that that takes much -- I tasted the batter before putting on the cookie sheets, of course, and was astonished to find it delicious. And the things are addictive, I'm telling you. Mmm. I want another.

Yes, these cookies are the most exciting thing to happen to me all day. The next entry will be more interesting, I promise.