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What?

I mean I'll grant she's a classic case of her books rewriting the same idea eight million ways but her short story collection Dreams of Dark and Light's pretty sharp.

Okay I can get behind her in short story form. Her novels are like sub-Mercedes Lackey nonsense.

Hahah, ouch. But yeah, way hit and miss on that front.

I have never read these, either.

I can claim to have listened to enya, however.

Plz send good vibes to me tonight at 6 pm central time, as I will take my renal/endocrine test at that point. I'm at a total loss as to whether I'm prepared or not. I just want to get it over with at this point.

If I can remember to send good vibes in advance of GOING TO SEE THE CURE LIVE, I certainly will!

Thanks!

And I hope you know that if you send me the good vibes, I will not hate you for all eternity for seeing The Cure tonight while I take a freaking TEST.

I suppose quitting school and running away from home to become a homeless person wouldn't help me see The Cure, either.

I'M TRAPPED ;_;

Ned I adore your Enya love. Watermark is golden and fuck the h8rz.

thank you abbott! i also have shepherd's moon but it's not as good.

time to go to class. ack! i need all this time for projects!!!!

OMG note to ppl ever using excel: put headings in FIRST because if you do it later when you're about to print and find out they run into the content and insert rows ALL your formulas in 3000 different linked up sheets get fuxored. KILL ME

booking flights to SF. Goddamn Atlantic expensive to cross in a hurry

also estela: did you ever get on to the sandbox? It seems to work if you go to http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/

i had a dream last night that the pinefox's real identity was revealed to me, and i was all OOOOOOOOOOO!!! THAT IS INTRIGUEING

stet, it still doesn't work. is safari a problem?

i wish i was going to sf, are you going for fun reasons?

yes! also beer, which is serious business.

Safari shouldn't be. I'll try again to sort you out, 2s.

SF, you say? When exactly?

Chunks of June, until the 19th. Are you about?

estela:this is weird, it all works fine until I try to log in with an "estela" displayname. Still fixin'

side trip to seattle wouldn't cost too much more

guys, this is awesome: nine sacred pearls of vedic wisdom (make sure to scroll down to see pictures)

side trip to seattle wouldn't cost too much more
oh that's an awesom plan

depending on when you come, you got free accomodations here

depending on when you come, you got free accomodations here

<3 ilxors! remy: webmail'd you w/dates. Estela: webmail'd you w/password. Jergins: posted on yr secrit borad

thank you stet<3

hey estela i have a question for you: is american sweet potato the same as kumara?

i'm eating roasted golden kumara right now and thinking how much i'll miss it if sweet potato isn't exactly the same.

it isn't exactly the same. you can't get kumara in australia either. i had an earnest sorrowful discussion on this exact topic on sunday with my sister and my parents and f. luckily we were eating delicious creme brulee with a spiced apple sorbet at the time so we didn't die from grief.

The American sweet potato is a yam.

oh man, i don't really like yams :(

american yams are not the same as nz yams, they are more like kumara than nz yams are, but not exactly like kumara.

right. so what the hell is australian "sweet potato"?

I'm big on squash right now btw.

yams vs. sweet potatoes

ok estela that is good to know.

A yam is like a butternut squash that's guaranteed to taste good, no matter which you pick. (And is softer.)

Stet if you find yourself able to swing down this way as well for a bit you have a place to stay as well -- in fact I'm a short distance away from the main OC airport. But Seattle should be a priority!

well i can't take kumara with me, but i'm taking probably a kilo of snifters and jaffas and perky nanas.

Ah butternut squash -- behold my lasagna of the gods:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2252895114_6755b4aed4.jpg

Butternut squash, fontina, bechamel...deadly, BUT WORTH IT.

jaffas rule

do we have to have kumara tasting now? wonder how customs feels about the shipping of tubers.

oops xpost.

now please, ruby, explain that other stuff.

That looks awesome, Ned.

what is fontina

ok lxy:

jaffas are these little round balls of dark chocolate coated in an orange candy shell

snifters are a chewy mint egg shape, with a thin coating of dark chocolate and a green candy shell

perky nanas are chocolates bars: 'banana flavoured' chewy stuff (but totally not banana flavour at all, since i hate banana flavour, more like pineapple) covered in chocolate

ooooooo i have to bring pineapple lumps too!

jaffas:

http://www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/images/Jaffas-Pic.jpg

snifters & perky nanas are unknown to me. They New Zealish only?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffas_(candy)

i can send you both of those wilter!!!

snifters:

http://www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/images/Snifters-Loose.jpg

snifter is a hilarious name for confectionary.

and they look yumnumnom.