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Journal as Confessional

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Martin J Heade
I am ridiculously apathetic about everything this week: I come hope, faceplant, then stay up past midnight online or reading novels. It's the sort of week when one might finish Anathem by accident. (I don't have it in the house; it's just the longest novel on the short list.) My to-do list is at a standstill. Apparently I invited something like eight people over for a game night on Friday; now I have to figure out how to feed them without burning the house down. (As much as I'd like to throw stuff in the crockpot before work and forget about it, I live in irrational but mortal terror that the crockpot will have an electrical short and turn the kitchen into a fireball.) Worst case scenario: I set something on fire, we order delivery, I pretend cheese pizza was always supposed to be dinner. I suspect I may be overreacting.

Also, my hair is still frizzy. I hate it. Not the little bit of dislike that makes you switch your shampoo, no: I want to spend major money on professional styling and enough product to fill my medicine cabinet until I have bouncy red carpet hair. Not enough to actually do it - yet - but enough to really regret further postponing a delayed hair trim. This is totally Slacker Week.

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[info]herewiss13 wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2009 04:03 am (UTC)
You could always place the crockpot on a large double-thick sheet of tinfoil and then border it with rolled-up wet towels. That way, even if it went up in a fountain of sparks (which is wouldn't) you'd still be covered.

...if you're going to take counsel of your fears, you might as well be proactive about it. :P
[info]ase wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2009 09:41 pm (UTC)
Yeah, there's no rational explanation here. All two or three of our kitchen fires involved toaster ovens or the microwave, not a crockpot. Granted, we didn't own one when I was a kid; that might have played a role. I don't know why this particular electrical thing makes me leery when leaving, say, the fridge on doesn't bother me, but here I am.
[info]limnrix wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2009 09:26 pm (UTC)
For me, every week is slacker week!
[info]ase wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2009 09:43 pm (UTC)
So how's Anathem?
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