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51stcenturyfox, who was instrumental in convincing me to make the Vigin Ad Manips from last night, has taken the idea and run with it by making a MOVIE POSTER. :D

I've suggested the tagline "You can't calculate divinity".

Last night I went to bed super-early, around ten, and had terribly stressful dreams and woke up around 11:30 with my left leg in excruciating pain (happens sometimes when I sleep on it wrong) so I took some pain meds and sat up for a bit, which means that any comment replies you might have received at 11:45 CST are NOT MY FAULT.

Then I went back to bed and slept till nine, for a grand total of ten hours or so of sleep.

Which is just as well since today I'm getting up and going to storage and spending a few hours there, sorting through stuff. This time I am prepared, and brought trash bags. :D

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Well, I feel that was a fruitful morning.

I went over to my storage space and cleared out one box of recycling and one bag of trash, set aside a box for the thrift store, cut myself on a bunch of boxes, and found one box that is actually full of Bernard's stuff, which I shamelessly looted.

In the box of Bernard's stuff I found THE BEST WIND UP TOY EVER.

( NSFW. )

I'm thinking of auctioning it off or something. MADE OF LULZ.

ETA: I forgot about this but I also found a slip of paper that must have fallen through the cracks in my previous purges. It's just a little piece of paper with the following written on it:

An architect of ideas,
A sculptor of dreams,
A smith, of sorts.

Given what I found it with and looking at the handwriting (mine has evolved significantly over the years) I'd guess I was about seventeen when I wrote that. Not bad, kid. Keep it up and you might publish a book one day.

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I am feeling restless and don't know what I want. (I know in part why this is -- I just finished a short story and I'm in edits on a larger project and that always makes me antsy.)

THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION.

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Operation Sesame Chicken was a success!

I was actually annoying myself because I KNOW that the only place that does good sesame chicken around here also only does good sesame chicken -- the rest of their food is kind of crap. And I just screwed around and didn't order any food and had a piece of toast and got cranky and finally said the hell with it, and I tried a new place.

Which was AWESOME. For Chicago northsiders, it's Barberry Pan-Asian Kitchen, and they do online ordering via GrubHub.

The chicken was in a chili sauce rather than a tomato-based sauce, which was nice, and it was properly battered and fried, which is almost unheard of in this area for some reason, everyone does stir-fry and the chicken ends up greasy and dry. Their dry beef wasn't the crispy-beef I'd hoped for but it was still delicious. The weird thing was the crab rangoon -- it was done in spring roll wrappers instead of wonton wrappers, and kind of all pinched at the top so that it basically looked like Bart Simpson's head. I will say that this solves the problem a lot of places in Chicago seem to have with fried wontons, in that wonton wrappers tend to soak up the grease if the oil isn't just right.

SO: I SAY YES TO BARBERRY PAN-ASIAN KITCHEN and their freaky Bart Simpson's Head rangoons.