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Borderline
The end of certainty is the beginning of freedom.
Orthonormal
What we need in a relationship is someone who loves us for who we truly are. What we crave is someone we think loves us for who we think we are. The two may not be exclusive, but they are mo...
Expectorate
Memo to self: Do not attempt to pronounce sibilants when mouth is full of toothpaste foam.
The more things change...
Sometimes you have to keep fighting the same battles over and over. That's life. Nobody says that you have to fight it the same way with the same tools. And because you've armed yourself from...
6am in the morning
lying in bed, talking about Xueling Caffeine: God. Me: What? Caffeine: Can you imagine us at forty? Me: I am imagining us at forty and it is epic awesome.
Hedge
Caffeine: Before Xueling was born, he called her Bump. Me: And Chestburster. Don't forget that. My mum: Why? Me: Because I knew that if the universe had even the tiniest inkling of how much...
Red zone
After doing this twice in a row, I officially accept that, when striking, I deliver more power than my body can channel. Ow.
Daughtere
I just realised that Xueling has an unfortunate resemblance to Doge
Irradiated
Do you want to build a cyclotron? ~~Me, to a student. I'm serious. We could probably build one pretty much out of Radio Shack if we wanted.
Highlight of the day
Being treated to random spontaneous musical outbursts in class because I foolishly asked What does the rock weigh?. Twice in a day.
Overclock
Amusingly, although I only delivered two axe kicks (both without incident) as part of teaching physics today, my whole body is sore from muscular tension. It's pretty obvious now that the mere ac...
Tell it like it isn't
Mistrust those who give you an answer; they do you no favours. It is not in the answers we receive that we become better; it is in the questions we ask in search of those answers. Those who giv...
From Facebook: sock
Op: How would you define a soulmate? Me: Someone you will argue with all your life over the unimportant things because you don't realise that you already agree on all the things that matter.
Note to self
If I don't track Xueling's snack consumption in the presence of our relatives, she gets stuffed with them, especially around Chinese New Year And then she gets sick.
Erna
When I was a child, I would often have dreams where magic wouldn't work for me. Everyone else would be able to make the doorway work, or the wand, or the raygun. But in my hands they'd be nothing...
Genetic
Xueling: points at Merida I like this princess! Caffeine: She likes redheads too huh. I blame you.
Sampling rate
At the Chinese new year's performance today: CS: looking at my camera at the end of the performance I guess you have about two hundred pictures in there? Me: Three hundred and forty. CS: Wha--...
Self centred
I wrote, quite a long while back, that one of the top pieces of advice I tend to give is Never run from, always run to, because if you spend all your life trying avoid your fate, you never have t...
Ah, I knew it felt familiar.
Remember I mentioned that it wasn't so much like stepping off onto a lifeboat as onto another ship? I remember why it looks familiar now. (Start the video at 1m 5 s) http://youtu.be/R7m5Int1hAA...
From nanowrimo: Bee doo bee doo
Original poster: Is there such a thing as a male siren? Me: I imagine he would sound... horny.
And so it ends.
Eleven years of Open Diary, gone down the drain. I'm not as bothered as I might be, mostly because this place isn't so much a lifeboat as a cruise ship of its own. So here I am. No doubt I'll ...
Exfoliation
Last Sunday, we brought Xueling to the beach. She had a good time, and so did we: (I got very busy with my camera) until we left the beach, and she decided that that she wanted to run...
Book Description
Epiphanies, sarcasm, opinions and thoughts that may or may not fit in 140 characters.
