the write time, the wrong place

So yesterday I bought some pens. Special inky pens, one of which is sitting next to me as I type this. I realized the night before that all I own are pencils, and it was high time to diversify my writing with some new utensils! I mean, who doesn't own pens? I remember owning pens at one time in my life, but for some reason they all up and disappeared. I am planning to guard these with my life. Possibly even give them names.

Sad, yes.

Regrets...nope.

In other news, I recently thought up an exciting idea for a novel. Here it is:

Picture our world, as it is, with its cell-phones and iphones and computers and all sorts of exciting technological wonders. Cut to some evil corporate people building a giant machine.

Now this machine is an electromagnetic pulse machine...aka an EMP. When activated, it shuts down all the technology in the world. WHAT DO WE DO?? CHAOS, PANIC, ETC. ENSUES!!!

If this were not bad enough, all the evil corporate people decide that they are now going to hold the technology captive by some equally evil design and no one will have any technology ever. What to doooooo?

ENTER some lovable yet resilient nerds who manage to overcome the lack of technology by living all primitively and make their way to the evil corporate headquarters where they manage to take out the corporation using primitive weapons like wooden stakes and take down the bad guys!! Plus, people fall in love.

Here is where it gets tricky. We have ending one, where the plucky heroes restore technology to the ailing world...OR they decide the world is better off without tech and decide to create humanity anew. I haven't decided yet.

Good thing we have a plan!!

So here is a conversation I overheard today on my way to the Post. It involved two maintenance men (here known as mm1 and mm2). Let me start by saying its raining here. It's raining a lot.

mm1- yeah, I feel like that would work
mm2- but we definitely have more than forty... (says something I can't hear)
mm1- they could all go two by two.
mm2- now if we could only find some gopher wood.
mm1- what is gopher wood anyway?
mm2- there's actually a lot of debate about what gopher wood actually is.

There you have it. The secret plot of the maintenance men. THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD AN ARK AND PUT US ON IT!!!!

Thank goodness for CBU's rain contingency plans. I actually feel much safer now.

But... what if we can't all fit on the boat? What then? What if I get paired up with someone I don't like? Will we have to be together forever or just to get on the Ark? I will think about this.

So I've been home now for a few days and am house-sitting for these two dogs. (Well, actually for the people, but I am taking care of two dogs...) I really enjoy house-sitting but I always feel a little weird about sleeping in someone else's bed or using their shower. I tend to overthink things like "You usually use this and now I am...should I bring my own shampoo?"

Anyway.

I had a traumatic incident at a holiday party the other evening. I was filling my coffee cup with hot coffee when BAM, the bottom of my ceramic mug just dropped out onto the floor. Like, the WHOLE thing just went away. There was this perfect circle crack all around the mug where the bottom had just decided it didn't want to be attached anymore. (P.S. this is a ceramic mug. Like, legit. Not even paper!) Also, the cup happened to be full of hot coffee, which then spilled all over me and my cute dress.

I feel like I had one of those moments, when I was standing there covered in scalding coffee, where I really wanted to cry but couldn't cause I was in public. So instead I asked for a blowdryer to dry my dress. It was sad. And hot.

Now I am going to buy some Christmas presents and my mom is reminding me to water my plants. Ciao!

awkward is the new cool!

So I have been reading a lot of literary blogs lately, and have run across Good Reads. Anyone heard of good reads? For a read-y type person like me, it is basically awesome, since you can find books and rate them and see what other people are reading. Basically, I go on and rate YA books and snigger when I see that lots of people rated Twilight really low.

Yeah. that's right. I said snigger.

I was having this conversation with roommate J. last night and we were talking about blogging and how basically its a cool forum to write all your awkward thoughts, but its okay because now awkward is "cool" and "trendy." In the old days, dudes who wore suspenders, glasses and plaid were nerds. Now, they are sexy and we want to date them. When did this happen?

Personally, I love awkward/nerdy people. I think it's because I identify with them. Besides, many awkward people have gone on to do great things. Like publish books, or own multi-billion dollar corporations, or invent the theory of relativity (okay, so I don't KNOW if Einstein was awkward and nerdy, but he TOTALLY looks like he could be!!)

So in conclusion, I hope nerds don't go out of style. Or good books.

All mimsy were the borogoves

I have a confession. Today I went to Sur la Table to buy my mother a Christmas present. As always, I was charmed by the vast array of kitchen supplies that clearly I DESPERATELY need. Four types of whisks? Yes. I need them.

Anyway, as Sur la Table is right across from Anthropologie, I thought, why not pop in for a bit?

Mistake.

I forget sometimes that I don't really have any money, but I like clothes that rich people wear. I knew the minute I tried on this lovely striped top that I was doomed. It's just hard sometimes to strike that balance between looking cute and not spending $68 on a stripey shirt. Ugh. I hate fashion. Let's all just wear paper bags.

On another (completely unrelated) note, seeing how my blog's title was inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I thought I would talk a bit about the "Alice" miniseries I watched on Syfy yesterday. OMG. It was brilliant! It reminded me of "TinMan" and "Tenth Kingdom" and was all awesomeness and full of love plus Andrew Lee Potts who I love from Primeval. Also, it has that guy from Magical Legend of the Leprehchauns...so it's pretty much guaranteed to be good.

Also, made spice cupcakes the other day. Turned out good, but a little hefty. The frosting was good though...I think I have the hang of making caramel syrup!

Love on the Internet

This morning I was eating Life cereal and listening to Eric Clapton, which made me seriously think about my life (the real thing, not the cereal). I have been fighting this horrible snuffling cold thing and have basically been sleeping my life away (I took a two hour nap yesterday and woke up and thought it was the next day. It was really confusing).

So here is a story. I have been thinking a lot about love languages and how people communicate and it has been really fascinating. Personally, I like words of affirmation, quality time and physical touch. HOWEVER, I decided to take the test online, just to confirm this. Little did I know that by taking this test I was accidentally signing up for a personals website.

Oops.

So, if you are online and see a profile for sexycupcakegurrl88...(just kidding, I didn't actually fill out the profile).

So that's my story for the day. I also made caramel cupcakes this week but I think the frosting turned out better than the actual cake. Plus they had green sprinkles!!

Art for art's sake?

I have been researching all this Holocaust art for my research paper, but I got distracted by Albrect Durer, who apparently inspired one of the artists I am writing about. I am a big fan of things that are nature-y, that whole outdoor but its indoor thing, and I am also in love with this owl picture!

I might order it and hang it on my wall.

On another completely unrelated note, had a delightful conversation at breakfast about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society book by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I for serious love this book like so so much, and this is really strange for someone who doesn't normally love novels written in letter form (which I have discovered is called epistolary. An utterly delightful word if ever there was one). So anyway, every time this book is mentioned, someone says like "Oh, that's a good book," and I basically interrupt them with "OMG it's like the bestest ever!!!"

So yeah.

That's all. I'm going to write my paper now.