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The Geek Hierarchy is fascinating and hilarious. It puts me in mind of something I witnessed last weekend in a comic book store into which I was dragged: a large group of people sitting around a VERY large collection of folding-tables, over which a mind-bogglingly impressive terrain, with houses, trees, soldiers, tanks and whatnot, was set out. I stared at them for at least 15 minutes but couldn't figure out what they were doing, or why it was fun.

At one point, a guy wandered into the shot and one of the "players" called out to him, "Hey, [so-and-so], join us!"

"Oh," the guy said, "but I don't have my forces with me!"

"It's okay, we've got plenty of forces!"

Forces, y'all. Forces.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:25 AM | shower me with attention

I've been using labels as a lazy, vaguely snarky punctuation to all my blog posts. This has resulted in about a million fake labels generating, making publishing my damn blog take about a year every time. No more.

It's a bad habit. I will break myself of it.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:17 AM | shower me with attention

Friday, November 16, 2007

Lesson number one: Do not talk smack about people at work. Do not complain about people out loud, no matter how incompetent they are, no matter how much they refuse to do their job and expect you to do it even though they make twice as much as you and you have to explain how things work to them constantly. Do not complain about people out loud, because they will end up standing right behind you and hearing every word and then your day will be very, very awkward.

Lesson number two: No cell phone for you, not if your bill is past due.

Lesson number three: Nonfat frozen yogurt is 2 points a cup, and at the Comfort Diner they have chocolate peanut butter chip. This makes up for lessons one and two.

Labels: today is finally over

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:09 PM | shower me with attention

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

How excited am I about the new Project Runway season starting in 8 minutes?

Um, a lot?

Labels: yep

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:53 PM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Pssst. Reload this page for the decorations.

Labels: she's back and she's brought acorns

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:44 PM | shower me with attention

The holidays are coming at me too fast. Someone get a net.

This Sunday is the first of two Thanksgiving dinners. This one is at my parents' house, since they'll be in Budapest on the actual holiday. On Thanksgiving itself, I get adopted by the Apells.

Oh, Throgsgrafen, you fiend. And right after that, I can no longer deny that the Christmas hoopla has begun. I'm in no way prepared for this.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:41 PM | shower me with attention

Sunday, November 11, 2007

I'm so proud of D. Her music blog, Soft Communication (to which I occasionally contribute), has been chosen by Hey! Nielsen and Billboard.com as one of the top Music Blogs in the U.S. in this contest.

Go, D, go.

In other news, it's cold out, and the leaves look really pretty upstate.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:14 PM | shower me with attention