no one is cooler than I am. April 8, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : ten-second updates , 1 commentHear me roar! For my mother has commented on my blog. Everybody wave! Hi, Ma!
I feel like I’m one of those six-year-old kids attempting to play football but who notices his mom standing on the sideline with cookies for the team at half time so he stops running to wave and inform her that she should be looking at him only then he gets tackled by the eleven-foot-tall nine-year-old who stayed back like three times and really shouldn’t be on that team at all.
Only hopefully without that tackling bit. What would be the blogosphere equivalent of the gigantic nine-year-old tackle?
-@
PS, Ma, I think I did tell you I had a cat. I got her from the lady in New Zealand who decided not to come back to the States, remember?
tweet tweet! April 7, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : technophilia, ten-second updates , 4 comments(Notice my new sidebar widget of same name.)
I love Twitter. It’s like blogging, only easier, because I’m limited to 140 words. It’s so low-impact, and yet I’m so addicted. I downloaded a desktop client so I can periodically get other people’s tweets popping up in Growl. I walk down the street and think, “I’m totally tweeting this when I get home”. It’s kind of sad.
But I’m not ashamed.
-@
the possibilities are endless. April 6, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : ten-second updates , add a commentSomeone once told me I was abusing the right to name the animal in my apartment. I denied it vehemently at the time. Now I guess I have realized that it may not have been worth putting my cat through several identity crises and potentially adding to her already evident gender confusion just to be able to say things like “George Foreman puked on my bathmat last night”.
That said, do I regret it?
Not a chance.
Her name, I mean, is what I don’t regret. I’m not psyched about the whole “puked on the bathmat” thing. Naturally.
-@
[update: George Foreman puked not only on the bathmat, but also on her favorite sleeping blanket. And the rug. And my keyboard. The fancy, easy-to-digest kitty food I bought is obviously doing a lot of good.]
what do do. March 28, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : games & systems, ten-second updates , 1 commentI could apologize for my extended absence from this blog. I could also try to list all the things I have attempted or accomplished. But I’m not going to.
I’m just going to say that I have made two important purchases in the past week:
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- A spray bottle of catnip
The amusement in my apartment has been endless.
-@
guest appearance! March 19, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : ten-second updates, the photo project , 1 commentTonight’s guest appearance is by the Cat of Various Names. Once Cleo, sometimes George Foreman, now mostly just Kitty, she has been in the mood to pose for me lately. Good kitty!
Ten points if you can guess what she’s staring at.
I’m still playing with the cropping of the batch of kitty photos I’ve taken over the past few days. Perhaps you shall see the fruits of that labor? If you’re lucky.
-@
hey there hi there ho there March 18, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : ten-second updates , 2 commentsSo, as you may or may not have noticed, I’ve moved. I imported all my past entries and comments over here from my Wordpress site, but I’m not really sure how this works from that point. Do I have to leave a note over there, forwarding traffic (or in my case “traffic”) over here? Do I have to remind people to update their feeds? I have no idea, so for now I’ll go with “all of the above”.
So, hey, update your feeds, okay?
-@
list time! March 17, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : academic pursuits, technophilia, ten-second updates, the photo project , add a commentThings I have done in the past two weeks or so:
- Teched, opened, closed, and struck a show.
- Started rehearsal for another show.
- Slept through an exam. (Oops.)
- Had my photographic ego stroked by one Director Shady.
- Written and turned in a really good paper.
- Spent the night in the design area of TI.
- Started the process of installing Leopard on my HP laptop.
It is mostly items 1, 2, and 5 that have kept me so radio silent. I have a paper due Wednesday and a final on Friday and then I will be free, free, free to do whatever I please. Hooray?
I kind of miss New York.
I sure wish it would get warm around here again.
-@
ugh March 15, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : academic pursuits, games & systems, language & literature, ten-second updates , 1 commentI am in finals week hell.
I will be out of the woods when I finish the paper I am currently working on (ETA: about 5AM), but it is difficult to concentrate when I feel so racked* with guilt for having neglected my blog for so long.
Until I am able to pull myself out of the literary quagmire I find myself floundering in at the moment, any looking for insight from me will have to satisfy themselves with these videos. I am a huge fan of the Mario Kart series, and I can’t wait for the Wii incarnation to come out. Can’t wait, I tell you! It looks awesome.
-@
[update - 5AM: I need an hour's extension on my self-imposed deadline. Just for the record.]
*Other grammar and usage nerds may balk at the lack of a “w” prepended to this verb; they can click here.
that wasn’t so bad! March 11, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : ten-second updates , add a commentToday, I did the impossible: I had a pleasant DMV experience.
-@
two things March 6, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : games & systems, ten-second updates , 2 comments1. Yesterday I topped my all-time high for pageviews: March 5th rang in with 50 in the pot. Sweet!
2. I got out of rehearsal at about 11:45 and it was snowing. So much for my allegations of springtime…
-@
[update: GUYS. I'm not sleeping tonight because I have to play the Hamlet text adventure game. !!!!]