We can has award!

(This post is written on behalf of both of us, because Seth just drove approximately 186 miles through rain and hail and I can’t help taking pity on the poor lad.)
Yo, check it - the lovely Rilla has got us all pimped out with this sucka:

Yay! In the spirit of self-deprecation, neither of us is [...]

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Peer editing, part II.

This is a very, very weak complement to Seth’s entry about peer editing, yet a complement nonetheless. You see, coincidence and/or fate worked out so that the day after he writes this horror story, I find out that, joy upon all joys, we’re going to be spending some time peer editing in my own comp [...]

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Sloppy jalopy sounds like innuendo, doesn’t it?

I think adding sloppy to about anything makes it sound like the kind of sex people should be ashamed of having.
A brief anecdote:
Recently in my English class we’ve had to write an essay a short story about a life-altering moment in our sad, lonely existences. Because I am not (generally) very sad, and certainly not [...]

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And we were DONE DONE DONE–

(I actually have an amusing little story to tell after this blurb…)
—-Any of you guys listen to Modest Mouse? Any of you guys know the song Black Cadillacs? Brilliant song, and I’ve been thinking about covering it over at YouTube, where I’ve somehow miraculously attained 47 subscribers by doing absolutely nothing for three months. Anyway, [...]

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Cakestain.

On the sidewalk outside of my dormitory, someone dropped a cake about…three or four weeks ago. I don’t know why someone was carrying a cake, presumably uncovered what’s more, or why they dropped it or really anything else about it. What I do know is that I’ve been passing it every single day since that [...]

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How strange it is to be anything at all…

Apparently Holdfire is going through some server changes and the domain hasn’t yet propagated properly (doesn’t that sound deliciously irritating?) on his…dormitory server? I don’t understand how it works, really; all I know is that everywhere else he goes, he’s able to access the site, but he can’t even ping it from his room. Wordpress [...]

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ne plus ultra is so hoi polloi.

Here’s a secret: I am a subscriber to the dictionary.com Word of the Day mailing list. The email comes addressed from a “Doctor Dictionary” which makes me smile, and occasionally I find a word or phrase that I like. I’m hoping that by using ne plus ultra as a title I can manage to absorb [...]

Robert Jordan passed away.

My father told me in the car this morning just moments before letting me off at school, and I immediately fired off texts to my boyfriend and my (ex? semi?) best friend informing them of the death, despite the fact that one was in a time zone where morning had barely begun and the other [...]

Phat.

There are no beats here.
Okay, I’m still not feeling inspired, but I guess being a real, actual-factual blogger means that you have to write regardless of whether you’re feeling inspired or not.
Um.
My Computer Science professor is an odd guy. He has this odd idea that creating odd, complex analogies relating the way computers work to [...]

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So new it squeaks under your shoes.

Time to break it in a little, I suppose. I’m not thinking clearly enough right now, so I think I’ll make a list of things. Lists are theoretically easier to write than paragraphs, so maybe I can trick my mind into producing something.
1. Right now I’m a little irked because I tried Google Docs, and [...]

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