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I keep writing these entries about how I am crazy right now, and all the things that are making me crazy, but then they sound weird and I privatelock them instead of posting them. Point being I am kind of bonkers right now but I'll get over it.

I just finished reading The River King by Alice Hoffman, and while I'd like to review it because that's how I document the reading I've done in the year, I don't think I'm up to the task. On the one hand it is a pretty good example of magical realism, and I read it to the end because I did want to know What Happened Next. But on the other hand there's not a single likeable person in the book except for the town pharmacist, who I think gets about eight lines in the whole thing. Lack of exposure is probably the reason he's likeable. Everyone else is either an asshole or a self-destructive twit. Or dead. Or some combination of the three.

Also, getting expelled from high school is not just retribution for committing murder. If you're going to commit a crime to exact revenge on a murderer, it might as well be worthwhile revenge.

Anyway, thus concludes my dissertation on 1. I am crazy and 2. The River King was a very hard book.

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Normally, my bathroom looks like this:

When I got home today, it looked like this:

Not that I'm not thrilled the Hello Kitty toilet is going by the wayside, but surprise!bathroom!remodel was not factored into my evening's plans.

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Okay! I have a toilet again, all is right with the world. The sink is coming tomorrow. I'm actually very excited, the hot water spigot on this one might work!

Anyway. I haven't been posting my origami the past few days -- got out of the habit, forgot, et cet -- but I have been folding it! For once the calendar had some pretty good ones.

So there's an AWESOME PENGUIN:

A "twisted star" with SURPRISE UNDOCUMENTED SINK FOLD at the end:

And a pteranodon that apparently had a run-in with a bulldozer.

Dinosaurs: more complicated than they seem!