Oh shi--

WHUT IT'S FRIDAY THE 13TH AGAIN??!? Wow, bonus round this year.

Today is actually a lot better than last Friday. Despite the fact that it is raining again, this time I have my new Tokidoki rainboots to keep my feet both dry and superfantastic. (Don't worry, I got them on Amazon for substantially cheaper than their October 2008 retail price. I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've actually paid full-price for designer stuff...and I'm pretty sure that number is zero. I like having nice things, but I also like having more money left over when I get said nice things.)

AND I got chocolate and cookies for "White Day," an even sillier holiday than Valemtard's. The sole purpose of it is for Japanese guys to repay their chocolate-debt to the Japanese gals upon whose frail shoulders rest all of V-Day's gift-giving obligations in this country. But enough of my snark - free chocolate :D

Also, tomorrow I embark on another magical mystical journey to O-town. There are many, many good reasons why it is Chi-town's sister city and why I love it so, and this is just one among them. They have taken the concept of "baseball curse" and made it bizarre and amusing in ways that only Japan can really.

Oh, and in other news, Kim Jong Il has decided not to try and resume the Korean War until AFTER I get back from Seoul. I appreciate his consideration in this matter, but I still wish he would stop being a crazy mofo. Same goes for South Korea's president, too, honestly. Maybe if he and his buddies weren't such stingy bastards with the economic aid Kimmy would at least play nicer.

...I'm pretty sure the dood next to me just ate an entire bag of grape-jelly-filled rolls. For his lunch. Wow, Japan, you need an intervention for your bread problem.

Wordcraft & Bakermancy

So today begins FeboWriMo, the perhaps ill-chosen 28-day month in which I attempt to make up for my failure at NaNoWriMo back in November. I'm at 2300 words and feelin' good. Let's hope I can continue this upward trend all week and build up a nice word-count buffer for over the weekend, 'cause it's nice to spend at least one day not being a slave to my laptop.

ALSO, today marks my third successful session of engaging in the dark arts of microven magic.

MICROWAVE BAKING PART THREE: This time, it's muffins!here they are about to mount a brutal assault of chocolatey doom upon my poor computer. mmmmm...doom.