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Went out to get work presents last night, spent an hour in the store, got to the cashier, and realized I had neglected to bring money or cards. Fuck. Went home, got money and cards, drove back, bailed out presents, went back to car, couldn't find car keys, went back inside to the service desk to ask if I'd left keys, found keys in coat pocket (underneath paperback book) just as I was about to say the word "keys," was told by clerk that I should really go home. Couldn't argue.

As a result of this and the massively icy streets, I am really quite unusually jumpy today. Decided to take a Valium with my milk. Forgot to open milk bottle before putting pill on tongue. Never good. Burns. Was then startled by something, slopped milk into open bottle of pills. Rescued most of them, but boy, that stuff is really absorbent. At least next time, I'll be getting extra calcium with my mellow. Or possibly e coli.

We did presents at work, and I am now well supplied with truffles, cocoa, and Starbucks. This should help improve my quality of life until the Sun comes back.

Dick Blick is having a nice clearance on art crap. I came out with a big Bristol pad, a box of stamp carving blocks, a Korean school notebook (quad), and a Moleskine city notebook (Dublin) for around $15. "Ooo! Are you going to Dublin?" "No."

You know what doesn't help my nerves? The goddamned Salvation Army bell ringers. STOP IT. Just carry air horns and be done with it.

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[averysmallthing.livejournal.com]

You have a Dick Blick near you? We have to order everything off the Interwebs. :(

I'm still gonna check the website and see if the Bristol is on sale there, too...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

They lease part of the upstairs of Nebraska Bookstore. It's awesome.

The Bristol is Strathmore Wind Power Smooth Bristol, 11 x 14, for three bucks a pad. Woo-hoo, I say.

[averysmallthing.livejournal.com]

Hells yeah. The husband uses the next size up, I think, and cuts it down... Must check website.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

truffles, cocoa, and Starbucks

Three of the four major food groups! And you said you already had some soggy Valium. You're set for the winter dude!!

Notebook

[danakate.livejournal.com]

What the heck is a Korean school notebook?

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Notebook made in Korea. Korean and Japanese notebooks are neat in that they're flat and saddle-stitched, and not terribly big. They're great for hauling around, and are also the things that shitajiki are meant to be used with. The one I got today is vaguely in the style of a...wossthing, school composition book, with gridded paper.

They're available in regular shops, and also often given as furoku with weekly or monthly manga. Styles range from perfectly plain, to kana practice grids, to insanely elaborate color interiors, as with this Snow White book:



They turn up in the U.S. in gift, anime, and import shops -- the shop in Epcot Fake Japan often has them. The ones with fractured English seem to go down well.

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[danakate.livejournal.com]

Ahh, thanks for the explanation. :)

I've been collecting Moleskines to use as notebooks to haul around. They've got some that are smaller and thin and have a cardboard cover rather than the Moleskine cover. My collection of Moleskines is rather ridiculous.

I don't need notebooks! What good are notebooks?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

:D I can say nothing!

The cardboard moleskines are very similar. They're a bit bigger and a bit thicker, but made with the same flat-tastic goodness.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Do valiums have a burning taste or do they actually burn, as in leaving a sore spot on your tongue?

I hope you're at the point where you can laugh about today's disasters at last.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

They're unbelievably bitter, like much stronger asprin, and their high solubility means that as soon as they hit your tongue they start to melt. It doesn't burn a hole, but it's extremely nasty, and you can tell where it's been for a long time afterwards.

This is nowhere near as bad as getting one stuck in your throat. Even when you get it to go down, you still feel like it's there. >:P

Nah, I'm good. It's not a disaster until something catches fire. It's just minor inconveniences leading up to a good, old-fashioned whinefest.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I often prefer a minor disastrous incident to a pile-up of inconveniences. Not fire though.

No one gives me valium so penicillin is the worst clinging-to-tongue taste I know. Of course, ball-point pen ink is far worse, but that was an accident and doesn't count.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I have never tasted ball-point pen ink. This surprises me, since I've tased graphite, charcoal, marker, stamp pad ink, watercolor paint, acrylic paint, and pastel. It's nasty?

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

It tastes unearthly and it's gluey and it sticks and burns and I couldn't even get it off with scrubber and soap and my tongue was blue for a week and my taste buds took longer than that to come back. I would imagine stamp pad ink tastes just as bad, sans the gluey. But maybe it's a question of dose. I got lots.

I know graphite and watercolor paint of those, and charcoal as tablets, but the taste should be the same. Graphite tastes kind of metallic and weird and watercolor paint is so-so, but I kind of like the taste of colored pencil. How's acrylic paint like?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's got a certain dairy quality, like white glue. Bit sweeter. Sort of like raw pie crust, if it came in a squeeze tube.