Quote of the day:

"It's been swell. But the swelling's gone down."

Possibly a good answer for when people ask you about your relationship, or your experience in the IB or something.

I now have a chunk of cooled molten metal that I've scraped off the stove. Cool. I'm gonna show it off in physics as an example of calorimetry.

In my rush upstairs to extinguish flaming kitchenware, I bumrushed the stairs' railing and now this spot on my pelvis hurts like dickens.

In the spirit of Nick quoting profound things in italics.

Faster! Harder!!! -Some generic porn film.

Bah, had to run upstairs to extinguish some flaming kitchenware. See, Nick only sets his shirt on fire. Well, it wasn't flaming, per se. By the time I got upstairs, the kitchen was filling with smoke, and when I took the pot off the stove, there was this lump of molten metal on the coil. SO. You can sort of figure stuff is burning. And apparently there's now a ragged charred hole in the bottom of the pot. Strange, it wasn't there before. But the sticky rice I was cooking is still tasty, if you scrape the black crust off the bottom. HOO-ah.

"Small Gods" was really good. Go Terry Pratchett. I was sort of afraid that a book without the Ankh-Morpork Watch would be stupid, like "Color of Magic", but it was great. The philosophical in-jokes rocked. Shadow puppets in the Allegory of the Cave!

I swear to God. No more Discworld, or fantasy for that matter, until I finish all these books I've bought and never bothered to read. First up.. "Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe"... What a stupid title. It's about the ... adventures.. of Josephine Bonaparte.. I have no idea what it's about, actually. Josephine, presumably. But the cover is pretty, which is why I bought it. I'm stupid. Then it's Ceasar's Legions.. all 160 pages of diagrams with pantless, well-muscled Roman men. Hmm, that won't seem so bad, but the text though..this book being in the same series as the Hoplite Warrior book, with the author who can't spell "waggon" right. Hooah. Then I have to read "Girl With the Pearl Earring," historical fiction based on that Vermeer painting. Christy said it was good.. but she doesn't read books usually. Ever. This either means she has really bad standards, or that it's a great book to be enable to get her to actually read.