The Late Shift 3/8- The Quest for Perfect Toast

00:41 / 04.04.04

Well, when I suggested that maybe we should start a new lateshift thread, everyone stopped talking to me. So anyway, here's the lateshift three-eighths: The Quest for Perfect Toast.

Cause if you're home on a Saturday night like myself, perfect toast has probably crossed your mind.

Oresa delta 20

00:47 / 04.04.04

Actually, not much has crossed my mind in the last few hours, as you may be able to tell from the topic i posted about an hour ago.

00:55 / 04.04.04

I am chatting on IM, watching Duke vs. UCONN (Go Huskies!) and enjoying a mild vicodan high. I had toast earlier today. It had honey on it. and a little hot sauce overflow from my eggs.

01:07 / 04.04.04

Mon dieu, Todd, why the Huskies? Connecticut is a state forsaken by the gods. I should know, I grew up there.

I'm watching X-2 again, having had a jones for the Nightcrawler scene for a long time. Best use of a large special effects budget I've seen in such a long time.

Jupiter, I sometimes do random statistical analysis for no reason myself, so I feel your boredom.

01:11 / 04.04.04

I grew up in CT, too, Maz, and even attened the university of CT. All we have in CT is college basketball. That's the best thing about the state. How dare you deny it!

01:13 / 04.04.04

and rooting for Duke is like rooting for the Yankees. Civilized people just can't do it.

01:25 / 04.04.04

Maybe if you're from Kentucky, but even the good Doctor came around.

I'm less concerned about the game than the geography. I'm planning on moving to North Carolina in August, although I'll be in UNC territory. My support of the Carolina teams is mostly due to a longing for North Carolina to be a better place to live than Connecticut.

01:30 / 04.04.04

AUGH! You made me look at a picture of Christian Laettner! EVIL! EVIL!

The brief amount of time I've spent in the Carolinas has convinced me that they are lovely. Of course, that was in transit, not any extended stay, but I kind of would like to try living down there right now. You see, I'm totally sick of tiny, loud apartment living right now.

01:36 / 04.04.04

My boss is from Kentucky, and she went to UK. Let me tell you, when her team got knocked out, there was merciless teasing. It only made up slightly for the shit i had to endure after Aaron Fucking Boone this October, though.

01:39 / 04.04.04

My evil is supreme.

Yeah, when I told my classics teacher we were moving to the Chapel Hill area he said, "Ahh, blue heaven." Living here in the great frozen/muddy north, I long for four different seasons, each of which takes up about a quarter of a year. We had that in Connecticut, I know, but the seasons all sort of showed up on random days. Valentine's Day was as likely to be spring as Easter, Christmas always had the potential to be arctic or fallish, depending.

Four seasons, three months each, in order. How kooky would that be?

04:08 / 04.04.04

But apparently not supreme enough. Would you look at that. Spoilers for anyone who gives a damn about U.S. NCAA men's basketball.

Bastard Tweed

04:24 / 04.04.04

Today I saw what may be the saddest thing in the world today: a man with a mohawk and the beginnings of male pattern baldness. I just felt the need to share and I figured this was the place.

That is pretty sad.

Woohoo! Jubilation! I was on the phone with a college friend during the last few minutes of the game!

Unfortunately, my painting class runs from 6-9 on Monday, meaning I don't get home until close to 10, so I have a tough choice to make. Watch the Final or watch a nude person for 3 hours (and paint him/her).

05:04 / 04.04.04

I'm off to bed. Good night all.

'Ello? Anyone about?

I'm here, but obsessing about flowers. I made the awful mistake of napping earlier, which, when combined with this daylight savings time bodyclock snafu fucking bastard whos idea was this, anyway?!!?!....well, it's perhaps not a good idea for more caffeine now, is it?

Saint Keggers

02:12 / 05.04.04

No, I guess caffeine would be bad for you. However right now its great for me! im gonna get myself a cup of coffee and have a piece of banana cake.

drinkin it anyway.

I just really love that picture, and am horrified by the idea of spelunking, or, more specifically, getting my rather generous hips caught in a small space WHILE spelunking.

21:54 / 05.04.04

So. Anyone? I’m trying to bump that stupid ‘earlyshift’ abomination down the page. The cheek of it. Bloody kids! etc etc

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

22:05 / 05.04.04

What's spelunking? It sounds awfully rude...

22:09 / 05.04.04

I'm on both the night shift and the day shift. I see my rtole as an ambassador between the two.

Or I could start some shite between the two, so...

Did you see that the morning shift people said that you were all a bunch of skanks? I TRIED to tell them that you were nice, but the7y just said I was stupid.

bitchiekittie

22:11 / 05.04.04

well it could be, if you placed all of this cave exploration jargon into filthy, filthy context.

but I'm a nice girl (shut up, you in the back), so I'll leave that alone!

spelunking is cave exploration. sometimes you have to do some crazy tiny space shimmying to get to where you're going, which is the part that creeps me off of the idea.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

22:16 / 05.04.04

Oh, I think my godfather used to be into that- kind of like potholing? I went potholing (which also sounds rude but isn't) when I was a kid but we avoid the particularly claustrophobic bits... they'd creep me out too.

22:20 / 05.04.04

Erk - sperlunking sounds both rude and terrifying. Small enclosed spaces do not make for a happy Scrubb.

Anyway. I cannot sleep. I cannot sleep. Is there toast about or was that just a devilish ploy to pull me in here?

22:22 / 05.04.04

Oh, I’ve always wanted to go potholing, and never managed to get organised enough for it. Plus, I realised the other day that I haven’t seen the sea for years, literally. How has this happened, how have been so rubbish that I’ve allowed this to have happened? I love the sea. I’ve got to get organised and get potholing and beachcombing this summer.

22:23 / 05.04.04

I have yet to see toast... Bed Head? bitchiekittie? Have you got toast?

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

22:24 / 05.04.04

Sorry. I don’t chase the bread monkey, man.

22:41 / 05.04.04

That's as may be, Bed, but does the monkey chase you? Do you hear his paws stroking your eiderdown at night, and wake up with crumbs in your ears?

I've got some very nice marmalade (home-made) if any toast does turn up.

bitchiekittie

22:52 / 05.04.04

I've got some lovely fresh multigrain bread here that could stand to be toasted. or should we leave it untoasted and make some nice dipping oil for it instead?

also, potholing? teeeeee heeeee hehehehee! love it.

23:08 / 05.04.04

Wee-ellll, Scrubb... if this entirely pretend monkey is stroking the eiderdown, er, so to speak, we’re both going to be disappointed because there is no eiderdown in my house that I’m aware of. For bread, read pasta; for eiderdown read blanket. And for water read wine, natch. I’m on a rustic European kind of a trip. Or something. (strokes beard, gazes at horizon contemplatively) Anyone for spaghetti and olives? And sauce and wine, of course.

Goodness Gracious Meme

23:25 / 05.04.04

'lo all.

In other news: I am turning into my parents.

Am cooking dinner for friends tomorrow/er, today, i guess, and this afternoon prepared the gravy/base for one dish, and am presoaking beans for another.

I'll be giving people tupperwares to take home at this rate.

23:31 / 05.04.04

Why do I not find that hard to picture?