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Dear universe, I am calling in sick to existence. In lieu of my presence, please accept this Friday photo post.

I cooked things this week! Things like granola bars and scallion pancakes. The scallion pancake was delicious but I think maybe should be rolled thinner next time.

I also fixed things, like the gaps around my air conditioner.

And then there was the Hello Kitty Pencil incident.

Last week I folded a paper bullet inside a balloon -- and then hung it over my bed. I'm not sure it has helped, but it's fun to look at while falling asleep.

Skeleton crossword, now with 50% less white out! It's okay to use white out on a crossword if you hate using pencil. And FYI, "Lutes" and "Lyres" are very close to each other, in crossword terms.

This is the most condescending packaging I have ever seen. (It's from a shelving company.)

The US Postal Service will deliver priority mail envelopes to your home or place of work free of charge. Do you think they packaged those envelopes thoroughly enough? Jesus Christ.

The Doctor Who ads are back on the El subway platforms!

Talking of Doctor Who, I received a sample in the mail yesterday, the kind where they send you a pen or whatnot so that you'll order 500 of them to give out as swag. I think this pen is the closest I will ever get to owning a real life Sonic Screwdriver. It even lights up!

And now I'm going to go die for a while.

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I am conscious! And much happier about it than this morning. I don't know if it was a cold bug or food poisoning or what but I spent most of the day asleep, and that seems to have helped enormously. Also I have not answered very many emails or comments, because it's hard to do that unconscious.

It's possible that part of it was the pressure change. A couple of minutes ago it was pouring down rain here, and looks like it might be again in another few. It's just as well I don't own a barometer, it might have exploded from confusion by now.

So, yeah. That's all I really had to say. Not Dead, Just Sleeping.