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So, because I said I would, and because to be perfectly honest, I probably need the reminder...

Pop-tarts have been hella on sale, so there's a lot of them in my pantry right now. Not that these are substantial food or good for me or anything, but seriously, it helps.

I asked parents to borrow rentmoney, and then got to the bank the next day and found out two checks I thought had posted the last time I was looking at my account, hadn't posted until this time, and I was still short on rentmoney. That's not the good thing. The good thing is that by noon tomorrow, I will have made up the difference, thank fuck and shouldn't have to worry about being overdrawn when my rent check gets cashed.

Relatedly, the fact that people I babysit for recommend me to other people, and I get sudden babysitting jobs. Meaning I got to spend tonight watching Backyardigans and eating other people's ice cream, which is a pretty great night if you ask me.

Sparr has returned from the fuckall wasteland that is Atlanta. Oh, I'm sorry Atlanteans, I meant to imply that your town deserves horrible weather and that it's about time you sent me my boyfriend back. Too harsh?

Date with my sir on Monday! Which, considering we haven't had a date in like forty weeks, is a boss thing!

I HAVE A BICYCLE. And she works, and she has real gears, and she has a pannier, and when I got a flat tire I was able to be a sexy shoeless god of bicycles and repair it all by myself by the side of the road, and my secret goal for the summer was to bike 500 miles, and I'm over halfway there and it's really not that much of a stretch for me to aim for my doublesecret goal of 1000 miles.

Also, I bike more than ten miles a day on average, and only about thirty miles of that has been leisure biking. This is a little depressing, actually.

I have 22 pending job applications, which means that my brain can't *quite* do the "YOU ARE HORRIBLE AND DO NOT HAVE A JOB BECAUSE YOU SUCK AT JOB APPLYING YOU HORRIBLE WASTE OF SPACE" thing. However, my brain can look at the 14 "I have to do more to finish these applications" and then look at the fact that I'm on livejournal, and seriously brain, I hope you fall in a river some days. In your Sunday best!

Theoretically, mindways is going to acquire a baby soon. I think babies are awesome, so I am in full support of his having one.

Did you know that Harvard will totally just like...give you money? Seriously, I've made something like 150$ in the last two weeks. Signing up for psych studies is the new donating plasma.

Actually, does anyone know where I can donate plasma for monies? Normally, I am all about just straight-up donating plasma/blood/wevs, because holy shit, it's the right thing to do, but if I can make other people's lives easier *and* get juice and cookies *AND* get fifty bucks...yesplz.

I got to be a goofball in the video for the latest Asmadi Games kickstarter. It is pretty great. I would show you, but it's secret until Sunday. You'll all just have to wait, and then I will advertise it all over the place. Seriously, give money to Asmadi Games. They publish great games, the people associated with it tend to be AMAZING PEOPLE (See also xalolo, Darker Eric, Dirk Tiede, and my sister), and Chris has been a darling and letting me intern over there when he needs games packaged and mailed and carried and organized and stuff.

I'm totally a corporate shill, but only once your corporation impresses me.

There is ice cream in the freezer, and raspberry magicstuff in the fridge, which I managed to sneakily spirit away from the End-of-Season SCD party. And by "sneakily spirit away", I mean I waited past one or two rounds of "OH GODS, PLEASE TAKE THIS SO WE DON'T HAVE TO" and then stole it.

I am super ramped up and excited for amateur night at squares, despite it not being for two months *and* not even announced yet. But man, Ted called "Turn-thru, left turn-thru" the other night, which was first off completely amazing, but SECOND OFF, makes me think that (from couples facing in a column) "turn thru, centers left turn-thru ends u-turn back, rinse, repeat" approximates a reel in a really nice and useful way.

And if I can call reels, WELL, I SEEM TO RECALL SOMETHING ABOUT SCOTTISH SQUARES DONE MWSD STYLE? Evil laughter goes here.

I am also ramped up for secret Squares stuff that I can't talk about publicly, but wow there's a lot of it to keep in mind.

jazzfish and ulios are coming to town, and I get to play Native Guide, which is totally not something I am actually prepared to do, since I have no idea what the touristy or interesting things to do in Boston while hanging out are. But I have a couple weeks to decide.

I am running out of things, so I am going to go get ice cream and then sleep since I have stuff early tomorrow (see point whichever it is that talks about free Harvard money). Whee!

~Sor
MOOP!

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Yay! We are likely to be severely jet-lagged and will smile dazedly at just about anything you care to show us. We are also easily entertained in general, happy to walk down cool streets and look at neat city-things or what have you.

"And here are the ducks!"
"ooooo!"
"And here are the pigeons"
"ooooo!"
"And here is the thunderdome in which they FIGHT!"
"OOOO!"

"Gamble told him strange facts about the city, and then told him strange lies about the city, and all Arren said was 'Oh, yes' or 'I see.'"
-Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Farthest Shore"

Yeah, I was just coming here to tell you that no matter what you think of your Native Guide skillz, we will think they are The Bestest because we will be The Jetlagged.

Also, I've never been to Boston before so anything at all you show me will be new and amazing.

Exccccellent. Prepare for a walking tour of ALL THE BOOKSHOPS!

...actually, I should totally just organize that, shouldn't I?

~Sor

Heh, i kept clicking on "I HAVE A BICYCLE" desperately wanting it to be a link to your beautiful machine with her loverly panniers and all! ;D

Hee! Maybe next time I upload pictures I will have one of Elanor in there!

~Sor

If you haven't seen it, there's a sleep study being advertised on the T for healthy persons between 25-55 for 22 days. Contact: sleepstudy AT bidmc DOT harvard DOT edu and 617 667 5343

(I forget how old you are or what the compensation money is, but I'm happy to shill studies at you, if you want)

I am 22, so that one doesn't help. Thank you for the reminder that I need to go look up sleep studies.

Pee-ess: kdsorceress AT gmail DOT com.

One of my housemates does a bunch of psych studies and essentially lives off that money. No idea how frequently she does them or how much money she gets.

For things to do around town with out-of-town friends, I'd suggest the Museum of Science, the aquarium, and/or the Museum of Fine Arts. But I'm not quite sure about non-museum things. People seem to like Duck Tours, although I didn't like the fake personality of the person running the one I went on. (It's quite possible I wouldn't like any of them.) http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/massachusetts/towns/boston/galleries/25freethingstodoinBoston/ might also be interesting to look at.

I'm curious about what the secret squares stuff is, if you can and are willing to say non-publicly.

I'm not entirely sure where in the city they're going to be based out of, so we'll see what's convenient from there. MoS is the best of all options, of course, but I think I took Tucker last time he was in town.

Secret Squares stuff is SECRET! Ask me off-list. ;D!

~Sor

What is raspberry magicstuff?

I am looking forward to Seekrit Squares Stuff -- I hope I get to take part in whatever you're cooking up?

It is, um...some sort of raspberry topping for ice cream? Hangon, lemme go see what the container says.

Ah, it is apparently "blackberry conlis (coolis? Coulis?)", so not Raspberry at all. It's basically a fruit topping, and very delicious.

Sekrit Squares Stuff has multiple parts to it, and I hope you get to take part too! NTS: I need to start organizing mischief squares, because that is very much a thing I want.

~Sor

Ah yes, it's coulis, pronounced "coo-LEE" (from the French). Yummy stuff.

Any amount of the Patriot Walk is loads of fun, you don't even have to pay a guide if you scummily find one walking around with a group of people and can listen in occasionally. Seriously though, convince them to buy a cheap guide book to the Patriot Trail and to leave that book with you when they leave Boston. Then you can do some of it with them and keep doing it with other people... that's my Chicago trick, since Dave and Diane left me a bunch of random guidebooks from their visit.

That's a pretty great idea, actually. I'll try and point Tucker and Emily at this comment sometime.

I did actually pick up off a free stack of books "A Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" and "Historic Walks in Old Boston" --I should see if either of them are any good.

~Sor