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Good things!

+ Lolmom is much more chipper than she was earlier this week, so hurrah. I know she kind of has to cycle through the beating-herself-up-about-all-this deal, but it is unpleasant to watch people do that and be unable to help in any concrete way, so I'm glad she's reached the point where she's like, "lol k, cans not undu. wat i du nau?".

+ So the space-time continuum doubled up on itself, and apparently there's an alternate universe somewhere where April 2011 was a really AWESOME, HIGH-VOLUME month and alternate universe l33 was pretty busy. Unfortunately for alternate universe l33, her incentive pay wound up on my paycheck. (...okay, the truth is that we all got an adjustment for volume because that wasn't our fault, but the alternate-universe thing is more entertaining than the truth.)

+ YOU GUYS OUR FIRST CSA PICKUP IS THIS WEEKEND~ Based on last year, I'm thinking we'll probably get some tatsoi and kale, but I can't think what else. I just remember the tatsoi, because there was a lot of it, and kale, because that was how I discovered that I actually LIKE kale, after previously believing that I did not. Oh, maybe we'll get some collard greens and mustard greens too.

+ HOKAI WE GOT THE MEDS SETTLED. I am taking 1500 mg for the next week and then going to 2000 mg, and then I'm supposed to ring them up and tell them how I'm doing, so this will apparently determine what my dosage is going to be in the next three months.

+ Hello, new LJ friends! Cookies now :D (Or, you know, something else if you're not that into cookies.) Feel free to ask me what the hell I'm talking about if you're confused/intrigued by the content here.

+ Hopefully tomorrow night will see THE MUMMY STORY. :D (If you already know what I'm talking about, you can help by keeping your mouth shut and waiting for the story.)

Comments

[serena-b.livejournal.com]

My mom *loves* kale. And I always get made fun of when I talk about it because for some reason it comes out sounding like 'cow' and no one knows what the hell I'm trying to say.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I never thought Baltimore accents were that pronounced, to be honest (I grew up in Frederick County, which is Appalachian, so we heard a lot thicker). But there is nothing like some delicious cow salad ;)

[serena-b.livejournal.com]

I think it depends where in Baltimore. In the city the accent tends to be very pronounced...and very...not nasally but similar (i think it sounds like you're talking as if you constantly smell something bad. which could be, it's Baltimore after all). I grew up (and still live) in Dundalk and I don't really think I have the Baltimore accent. I don't so 'oh' like 'oooouuuuuu', lol. And I don't say 'wuder' like everyone around here, I make a conscious effort to say 'water' because my cousin from Arkansas once made fun of how I talked (yeah...).

But for some damn reason I can't pronounce kale. Much to my family and friends amusement. ;)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I have the pleasant joy of not really sounding like I'm from Indiana even to other Hoosiers, and I suppose that's fair enough when you consider that I was in my late teens when we moved back XD Part of it is that I never really stayed in one place long enough to develop a regional accent; I do have the generic East Coast impatience, though.

"Wuder" also seems to be a Pennsylvania thing, given that I heard it there too. (There are more egregious offenses here, probably thanks to the fact that I live close to the Kentucky state line; I would like to ban "them was", "is them", and "did her" for life. I am dying to tell someone that unfortunately I am not fluent in Stupid, but if they want to give standard English or Russian a good crack I will try to help.) Returning to your cousin from Arkansas: pot, kettle, black ;)

[serena-b.livejournal.com]

One of the strangest things I've come across was when my boyfriend and I went to Massachusetts for vacation to visit his mother's family. When we were in the car and his grandmother was giving us directions she kept saying 'and then you'll land on' (instead of 'arrive at', or even 'get to'), like we were in some kind of hovercraft.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Maybe you were in some sort of hovercraft and you just didn't notice it? Actually, road trip via hovercraft would be kind of awesome. Must do that when the technology becomes widely available :D

Oddly, that reminds me of how my dear, departed grandfather used to overdirect when he was telling you how to get somewhere. "So then you'll see a light and there's a big red-brick building on your right-hand side. BUT DON'T TURN THERE! A few miles down you'll come to the used-car dealership and after that there's a row of mailboxes and a blue house. BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONE YOU WANT!"

[serena-b.livejournal.com]

LOL. My cousin does the same thing. Once when he was giving directions to his new house, 'And then you'll see a street on the right hand side named Everett. E. V. E. R. E. T. T. Like the tennis player. Pass it.'