I've said it before: there's nothing like going back to Belfair for a holiday to remind you what a terrible place it it. My aunt's road washed out in the flooding, and her driveway has become a ravine 3 feet deep. It takes four-wheel drive to get to her place now. The next day (25 December) it snowed, trapping me and my mom in the house and unable to attend the Mageop party at Arynn's place I'd been dying to go to. I will never again take for granted that the worst transportation issue I have to deal with here is the 11 running ten minutes late.
On the bright side, the snow did enable me to participate in one Mageop tradition I hadn't expected: I made a pair of snow-boobs in my mother's driveway.
Things I have learned from the Internet: Mensa does not seem to have personal/community pages. How can I find a doctoral student in structural linguistics to rent my spare bedroom? Where do I find somebody to buy my couch for the price determined by game theory and the local microeconomic climate be optimal to both of us? What if my girlfriend and I want to have a threesome with a Nobel laureate? Damn you, Mensa: you have done nothing to make my life easier!
It also irks me that their Membership Benefits page says "a myriad of." "Myriad" is more properly used as an adjective, not a noun: "the myriad forces," rather than "the myriad of forces." I think that the Mensa website should avoid using tertiary definitions of words when the primary one is more poetic and more etymologically correct. But this particular usage has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine. I should stop bothering with this when there are delicious leftover sweet potatoes to be eaten.
I've made a bunch of stickers that say "W W I B W/O I.B.M.?" to put up around, to share my excitement over the InSoc concert with the world.
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