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It's raining outside :D !!!!!!
Mar. 4th, 2009 08:49 amMy shoes are not waterproof. Ergo, my socks are damp. As are my jeans and my coat a little bit (and I probably should have worn the long not-wool coat when I saw it was raining, instead of the short wool peacoat oops). But that's okay because, omg rain! :D
Ironically, when I was debating whether to buy rain boots online this weekend, I was all, "Well it's probably not going to rain again for months but it's not like my feet will grow so I may as well since they're on sale :D" and Roomie was like, "Yeah just do it" but then DSW.com locked me out of my account when I tried to sign in to get free shipping (turns out I hadn't actually created an account on the website yet so I tried to sign in too many times and then I realised that it didn't even exist so then I created one but I was still locked out) so I have to call their customer service before six today so that I can buy my too-little-too-late rain boots. They're super cute, though! Actually I really desperately wanted paisley rain boots but there are no paisley rain boots on dsw.com :c and this brand is the only one with the calf circumference I need (which is my main obstacle when trying on rain boots in the store) so I was choosing between the linked pair -- cherries on leopard print -- and one that's ladybugs & skulls and I would have gone for the ladybugs if the skulls were only the background print but they're also the spots and I didn't like that much.... also the cherries seem much more widely appropriate than skulls. The hearts and cross-bones pair were also in the running but I can't deal with that much pink. If the background were black I would have done it.
Where was I?
OH, so this morning I was thinking about how one of the quotes on my facebook profile is from a spam e-mail about male enhancement, which led to, "I bet about half of the spam I recieve is about male enhancement," and, "I wonder if that's because Sumner is a boy name?" So then I planned an open letter which ran something like:
Dear Internets,
I am, in fact, a girl and as such do not possess male genitalia for you to enhance. I apologise for any confusion my name may have caused.
Femininely yours,
Sumner
Except! Today, two of the three e-mails in my spam folder on AOL were dodgy invitations to join MSN messenger, which actually just seems strange. I mean, really, MSN? Also, the fact that spambots are gunning for it makes me less inclined to use it for legitimate, of-my-own-volition reasons.
Speaking of MSN, the guy behind Awkward Hand Turkey Theatre tested Google, Yahoo!, and MSN's search engines to see which one of them had the "dirtiest mind" -- he called the competition "Dirty Little Search Engines", and his tests and commentary are hilarious! As are the results.
There has also been sort-of-resolution on the coffee filters thing... The other day Flatmate (while carrying broccoli florets in a coffee filter out of the kitchen) says, "Hey, sorry I keep using your coffee filters as snack cups..." Which was uncomfortable because, a) if you're apologising while continuing to do whatever it is for which you are apologising why apologise at all?, b) if you were aware that it bothered me why did you keep doing it?, and c) I've been sitting on this irritation for so long that I'd just rather not address it, especially since Flatmate is v. confrontational and I am v. not. And anyway, I kind of realised that she's used a total of maybe 10 coffee filters, which is only 1.5-2 weeks worth depending on how often I make coffee, and I wasn't especially bothered when Roomie's Sister asked for about 25 to make a flower to give to her boyfriend so I don't really have a good reason to be bothered about this (except maybe for the fact that Roomie's Sister asked first and that we do have actual snack-sized cups and napkins, both of which are intended for snack-containment and cannot be used to filter coffee so it's not really a fair trade, is it? ohgodstopdwellingonityou'rejustmakingitworse)
Um. I think that might be all? Tonight I'm going to see the Vienna Philharmonic! They are visiting Disney Hall! :D
Ironically, when I was debating whether to buy rain boots online this weekend, I was all, "Well it's probably not going to rain again for months but it's not like my feet will grow so I may as well since they're on sale :D" and Roomie was like, "Yeah just do it" but then DSW.com locked me out of my account when I tried to sign in to get free shipping (turns out I hadn't actually created an account on the website yet so I tried to sign in too many times and then I realised that it didn't even exist so then I created one but I was still locked out) so I have to call their customer service before six today so that I can buy my too-little-too-late rain boots. They're super cute, though! Actually I really desperately wanted paisley rain boots but there are no paisley rain boots on dsw.com :c and this brand is the only one with the calf circumference I need (which is my main obstacle when trying on rain boots in the store) so I was choosing between the linked pair -- cherries on leopard print -- and one that's ladybugs & skulls and I would have gone for the ladybugs if the skulls were only the background print but they're also the spots and I didn't like that much.... also the cherries seem much more widely appropriate than skulls. The hearts and cross-bones pair were also in the running but I can't deal with that much pink. If the background were black I would have done it.
Where was I?
OH, so this morning I was thinking about how one of the quotes on my facebook profile is from a spam e-mail about male enhancement, which led to, "I bet about half of the spam I recieve is about male enhancement," and, "I wonder if that's because Sumner is a boy name?" So then I planned an open letter which ran something like:
Dear Internets,
I am, in fact, a girl and as such do not possess male genitalia for you to enhance. I apologise for any confusion my name may have caused.
Femininely yours,
Sumner
Except! Today, two of the three e-mails in my spam folder on AOL were dodgy invitations to join MSN messenger, which actually just seems strange. I mean, really, MSN? Also, the fact that spambots are gunning for it makes me less inclined to use it for legitimate, of-my-own-volition reasons.
Speaking of MSN, the guy behind Awkward Hand Turkey Theatre tested Google, Yahoo!, and MSN's search engines to see which one of them had the "dirtiest mind" -- he called the competition "Dirty Little Search Engines", and his tests and commentary are hilarious! As are the results.
There has also been sort-of-resolution on the coffee filters thing... The other day Flatmate (while carrying broccoli florets in a coffee filter out of the kitchen) says, "Hey, sorry I keep using your coffee filters as snack cups..." Which was uncomfortable because, a) if you're apologising while continuing to do whatever it is for which you are apologising why apologise at all?, b) if you were aware that it bothered me why did you keep doing it?, and c) I've been sitting on this irritation for so long that I'd just rather not address it, especially since Flatmate is v. confrontational and I am v. not. And anyway, I kind of realised that she's used a total of maybe 10 coffee filters, which is only 1.5-2 weeks worth depending on how often I make coffee, and I wasn't especially bothered when Roomie's Sister asked for about 25 to make a flower to give to her boyfriend so I don't really have a good reason to be bothered about this (except maybe for the fact that Roomie's Sister asked first and that we do have actual snack-sized cups and napkins, both of which are intended for snack-containment and cannot be used to filter coffee so it's not really a fair trade, is it? ohgodstopdwellingonityou'rejustmakingitworse)
Um. I think that might be all? Tonight I'm going to see the Vienna Philharmonic! They are visiting Disney Hall! :D
