a wolf angel is not a good angel

I am feeling non-/dysfunctional right now. I should go to sleep; I might feel better if I were sleeping more; I would not be worse, in any case. Would. Should. Might.

What happens when I try to escape out an apostrophe? Let’s find out!

Update: it works when I escape the apostrophe. I am never going to remember to do this, though. I wonder if it’s fixable.

with, i think, using apostrophes. not good: i use them a lot.

I am in the process of upgrading and finally figuring out the stupid blog-by-email that never worked for me before. I’m at 1.5.1.3, and it seems to be working correctly with all my changes saved, so now I’m downloading WP-Cron (since I do not intend to figure out how to do a cron job yet) so it will automagically check for emails to my secreter-than-secret email address. Here’s hoping.

Update: same problem as before. I set up an email address, I have the right username and password, but when I go to the page which should check for new mail, I just keep getting this: “There doesn’t seem to be any new mail.” But there is, because I sent some. Argh.

Update 2: fixed it! Now I just need to set up the plugin. This means I will be able to blog from all sorts of locations, just by sending email.

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

The all possible answers page suggests that there is little correlation between the description of the type and the standard description of it, and equally little correlation between the character and the type.

Not that I don’t enjoy these quizzes anyhow.

Via Michelle.

He is being convinced, he says, though he intends to read very closely to look for faults. Presumably this is on a reread. I am very pleased, in any case.

Today he informed me that birds are just dinosaurs, only not extinct.

I need a new library. The librarians there know me — and laugh at me! Don’t you run out of books you want to read? (Yes, at least in my severely underfunded local library.) Do we have a book on hold for you this time? (Usually yes.)

Oh well. I think I’m back above 20 books out again. And yes, I do go to the libraries on Friday nights — it’s right near my grandparents’ house. Try not to be too jealous of my super social life.

Some day, I will find motivation. I’m sure it is hiding, somewhere. Maybe when I clean up my room: maybe it’s under my bed. (What’s funny is how much I regret not getting things done, and how little that turns into actually *doing* things.)

One more week (plus a few days) of work here, then I am flying to the US to visit friends and get trained for a week, then I am flying far away, across the Atlantic, for another week of training, then back home via the US again.

So, some questions:

• I have suddenly heard a zillion horror stories involving underwire bras and patdowns. I only own underwire bras. I have never had a problem with them on airplanes. Should I (a) wear the bras and hope or (b) jiggle my way through security? I have those camisoles with fake bras, which I guess I could wear, but they don’t actually do anything. I would take the bra off just before and put it back on just after, but I really don’t want to do this unless it’s incredible likely that I will get groped because of my underwire.[1]
• Can I bring a pencil sharpener on the plane, or is that also a dangerous weapon?
• Bags with wheels: do I go for the small duffelly shaped one, or see if I can borrow the ones that look like the carry-on bags except bigger? They’d all be about the same size, probably. For 2 weeks, I need more than just carry-on, which will hold extra contact lenses, extra panties, and the forty books I have.
• Postcards! Who wants a postcard from my super secret location?

[1] I think there needs to be a story about some ninja who hides her weapons in her underwires. It ought to be visual, though, not just written.