I found myself.

Okay then. The last five days in review:

1) Babysat a five year old typhoon of adorable for 20 hours.
2) Cleaned up post-typhoon going back to her folks, and dug out all the leaves trying to choke my plants to death in the back yard. (Except for the ones in the ivy, which tries to choke everything else so turnabout is fair play.)
3) Spent Easter morning at Grandma's in an emergency capacity and to keep the dog from freaking out while my aunt worked. Caught up with family, ran home to pick up some things and grab sodas to bring to Easter dinner.
4) Went back to work. Wondered why people keep thinking it's a good idea to keep trying to put me in charge of stuff I don't understand when we're on a compressed schedule.
5) Class. ...I got a 78% on the midterm due to blanking on SLIDES I REVIEWED A DOZEN TIMES WTF. Have discovered that at least half the articles I found for the project paper are Sir Not Relevant To This Topic. *sigh*

6) Got home, pulled into the driveway and... someone had mowed my front lawn. Not the next door neighbor. Weird. So I went inside, dumped my bags by the door, wandered into the kitchen. Which was clean. Backpedaled into the dining room because there were cookbooks there that I hadn't left there. And an Easter basket complete with deaf chocolate bunny. And a quilt rack with the quilt Mom made me hanging on it. And the house was clean, and vacuumed, and there was quiche and a dyed Easter egg in a cup in the fridge and a container of Irish cream.

The moral of the story is: MY MOM AND STEPDAD ARE AWESOME.

And Mom has an unhealthy addiction to the ears of my chocolate bunny rabbits.

Hope you all had a Happy Easter.

Question: Anybody else recently had problems getting Gmail to load with Firefox? i.e. it keeps kicking the request and response back and forth in a nearly endless loop of attempts to load the page?

On the one hand: If I got LUCKY,* I got a B. At best.

On the other hand: If I hadn't studied like crazy all week, I'd have pretty much failed the class already.

(We spend an entire lecture on knowledge inference, but that's nowhere on the exam and she gives an essay question on a search algorithm mentioned in one article that proved to be inefficient anyway? WTF?)

*If I got full credit for everything I didn't leave blank because I couldn't think of anything. And there was a LOT of BS.

I haven't commented on Gary Gygax's death because, well, everyone's done so more eloquently than me.

But my favorite tribute so far has to be Order of the Stick. So I'm just going to link it here.

Okay, this morning's pity party has come and gone. (Reason why is f-locked and whiny and RL-related and no threat to life, liberty or sanity.)

Having said that, I know a lot of people are waiting for me to follow through on: RP stuff, beta comments, reviews, memes (hey sinanju I didn't forget I've just been blanking on it), and everything else. So to all of you: I'm going to be very slow in getting back to you this week. Have a midterm in Applications of Intelligent Systems next week, and the pity party's forced me to re-evaluate a couple of things. I will get back to everyone, it's just going to take me this side of forever to do so.

Also, I can't update it to reflect this til I get off work, but I'm finally going to stop taking e-mail recipes for the Jelly Belly page. I plan to put up ALL the recipes I've received, but starting today I'm not taking any more recipes. My entire website needs to be gutted, in point of fact. God knows when I'm going to do that, but - it hasn't undergone any sort of major overhaul since 2000, and you can really tell.

Anyway, stuff to do.

I'm gonna go see Flogging Molly today at Ram's Head! Woot!

...and of course I can't find my copy of Drunken Lullabies anywhere to get it signed. Oh well.

Sooo... I did promise something resembling a coherent review for BB #24. And I intend to deliver. But my squeeing resulted in Mom giving me a prelude: why get so excited over a comic book?

Here's your answer, Mom, and this issue ( embodied all the reasons why I adore this series. (Cut for moderate spoilers and a lot of tl;dr) )

Yeah, yeah, real review coming. But this had to be said.

Happy birthday, bktheirregular. You won't see this til tomorrow, but still. :)

Sorry I was so braindead on IM last night.

Everyone else: Work + grad school are topping me. More later. In a day or two.

Since I'm the only Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney fan among my LJ friends that I know of and if not, hey, let me know!, I'm going to post a sort of warning:

I'm going to attempt to take part in the Ace Attorney countdown playthrough for the hell of it even though I deny half the events of Game 4. I'll be LJ-cutting my rambling and I also don't expect to make it more than a few days; the only way I could justify doing this was because I'm not allowed to do the playthroughs til after I've finished my class readings. (Given how dry some readings are... yeah.)

So, any posts of mine with this tag can be ignored as you won't understand 90% of what's behind the cuts and there will be rampant spoilers anyway.