insomnia report

Grrr. I think I am going to have to quit eating sausage, as I am having a typical dairy allergy reaction. Why, why, why, do people have to sneak milk into everything? I need to move to Asia. Or Berkeley. Definitely need to move out of the Dairy State...

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afternoon report...

42 miles on the tandem, averaged 13.9 miles/hour, max about 30 miles/hour. And I desperately need new bike shorts. Three pair are more than overdue for honorable retirement, which explains my mood...the new tires do work rather well, though.

Hello to mollymoon and sociofemme and somniesperus who newly friended me.

No sudden inspirations today on the tandem ride. I think that my Muse is irritated that I'm trying to be all linear, and I'm irritated that it's not working. kaiz's post about it and the link to Diana Gabaldon's article were excellent. If she can do it, I can do it...And law school is such a linear, organized type of learning that it doesn't make matters much easier in terms of trusting the Muse.

Heh. More fangirls last night. They were asking me what colcannon was, so I told them, and hinted as to why Emmy Vector might be craving it. And someone else on ff.net wants me to continue Pikuash Nefesh, currently a Snape/Pomfrey one-shot. I'll think about it.

Finally got all 276 pages of Ch. 700 of the Manual for Patent Examination Procedure (a.k.a. the MPEP) printed out last night. Chapters 100-700 fit into and fill a 1.5" inch binder. Twenty more chapters and ten appendices to go.

you know you're too obsessed with Severus Snape...

when a youngish man (under to approx. 30) dressed in a cassock walks into the restaurant you're at, and one of your first thoughts is "Wow! Why didn't [insert character here] (hush up, Emmy Vector) kick Snape's feet out from under him at the first available opportunity? Now I understand the whole 'Father What-a-Waste' thing..."

(And the fellow was tall and skinny as well. If he'd had shoulder-length black greasy hair, black eyes, and a larger nose, he could have passed for Snape. I also now understand the comment of one of my college classmates who spent 3 years in seminary, that girls thought he was either safe or a challenge...)

The husband and I spent a lot of time discussing whether said young man was a priest, seminarian, or merely in costume. Since he was with a young couple with a baby in regular clothes, he probably was not "merely in costume." However, I've never seen anybody that young wearing a cassock for real, and I've been educated at a number of Roman Catholic-affiliated schools. Old priest, 90 years older than God, yes, I've seen a live one in a cassock, but not somebody my own age....