The tally so far:

• Two pieces of Stouffer’s french bread pizza.
• Eight or nine small glasses of cold herbal tea (again: Thank you so much, beloved, for the tea!)
• Five pieces of rye krisp, buttered
• Two tall glasses of orange juice (all gone now, waaah)
• Two toaster waffles

Health food it ain’t, but it makes me happy… and a happy blogger is a prolific blogger. Speaking of happiness, feel free to sponsor me if you haven’t already. It makes me happy, and goes toward setting aside land for wildlife habitat preservation. You can’t really go wrong there, now can you? Thanks!

(A big thanks to Liz and Lisa, who put me over the $125 mark. Woo hoo!)

So picture this bit of amusement: My room, upstairs, closed off from the rest of the (significantly cooler) house. Two cats, to whom I am allergic. Me, opening my door when I know they’re downstairs so I can try to pull in some cooler air. The cats, sensing an open door and distracted human, stealthily treading into forbidden territory. Me, shooing out cats and closing the door again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

But hey, I’ve lowered the temperature in this sauna of mine by a few degress. That’s got to count for something, baby.

I managed, a few minutes ago, to scrape the back of my foot just above the heel, and now it’s quite merrily bleeding and being generally unpleasant.

If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be over here, feeling stupid and uncomfortable. Le sigh.

Uh, I’ll be back in half an hour, hopefully having accomplished what I set out to have accomplished by now.

If you need me, I’ll be… er, right here. Just, busy. And stuff.

(This meme thing I’m in the process of doing is either going to be high-larry-us, or it’s going to be the dumbest thing I’ve posted here yet. I’m not sure which, though.)

Here are some bits that aren’t big enough for a full entry on their own:

• Of all the conveniences at my home, right now I love the ice maker in our fridge the most.
• You know you’re a bit self-absorbed when you stare at your own webcam image wondering what facial expression you should try to maintain.
• My room is, yes, a bit untidy. It is, however, in better shape than usual. Actually, its current shape is becoming usual. This is a good thing.
• I do have more than a few anime CD-ROMs to file, however. Oops.
• I’m working on another creative writing exercise. Be afraid. Or amused. Or something.

See you in half an hour! (You, of course, can see me all day long.)

While I debate my next Serious Project For The Day, I think I’ll brew up some iced tea and gather the snack foods. It’s definitely time to have iced beverages in ready supply.

All things considered, I think I’m keeping a fairly high content-to-filler ratio. Wouldn’t you agree?

As an aside for the anime fans out there: Can you imagine a better song choice for a Fushigi Yuugi music video than Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World”? I certainly can’t. (This geeky aside brought to you by my recent viewing of ErMaC’s last video, “Extraordinary World.” It’s a shame the video has enough cartoon nudity to prevent me from showing it to the kids, one of whom would otherwise get a big kick out of it. Le sigh. The video itself is… okay, overall. Highly experimental.)