Current mood:

okay

Subjects are for the weak; we take what we want!
Well, things are just about shifting back into the okay camp over here in Froborr-land. I finally figured out that the reason I've been feeling "bleh" lately is simply that I effectively have had no rl friends for the last two months or so, and I never do anything fun by myself. So I've started making a conscious effort to do things like going to movies (which really is somehow better than watching them on DVD or downloading them, in some difficult-to-define way) and playing non-DDR video games. For example, thanks to princess_tutu I am now making up for my horribly deprived childhood with a perfectly functional NES and SNES, including my favorite game as a kid (the original Super Mario Bros) and two games I desperately wanted and could never afford, Mario 3 and Zelda: A Link to the Past. Which, of course, I own the GBA version of, but the SNES version is the one I wanted as a kid, and therefore better. There's some other games in there, too, including Super Mario World, which, believe it or not, I have never actually played. I'm quite happy with it.

Anyway, yeah, cnorgard, I'm beginning to understand why you hate New Jersey so much. Having nobody but your family and fake Internet people (no offense, I hope -- why, some of my best friends are fake Internet people!) to talk to for weeks on end sucks. But yeah, it's getting better.

Tonight I had dinner at a really great Indian place, which I had no idea existed, a mile from my house. Two good, crisp, hot samosas for $2, an excellent mulligatawny soup with a nice sneak-up-on-you medium spiciness for $3, and good aloo ghobi -- perfectly cooked vegetables that melted in your mouth, a mild, sweet spiciness with a hint of ginger, and a touch too much cilantro (which is to say, it contained cilantro) -- for $7. Plus they have an all-day buffet $11 for the full thing and (this is the interesting part) $7 for vegetarian dishes only. Since I generally go vegetarian whenever I eat Indian, because they make AMAZING veggie dishes, I might go for that sometime. What I'm *definitely* going to do is walk up there for lunch and buy a couple of samosas some time. Lunch for $2 is tough to argue with.

Oh, and I now weigh less than 200 pounds. At least, I did before dinner. I'm less sure now. Regardless, woot! I am marginally less disgustingly obese!

Edit: Oh yes, I *am* a bit peeved that nobody seems to care about the destruction of our research libraries. Am I the only person bothered by Google having the power to hold all of academia, AND the U.S. Congress, hostage on a whim?