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dchenesResearch & Writing paper is revised. There's something satisfying about finally printing out something you've been working on for quite a while. I suspect I'm going to have problems with one thing I didn't change, but I got to a point where I thought "Wait a minute, who's writing this thing anyway?" and left it alone because I liked where it was going, and I didn't see that the suggested correction was going to do anything for it. Sooner or later you have to stand up for your own writing.
I find it highly amusing that to this day, I have no idea how to write French on a PC. I only know the shortcuts for accents on a Mac keyboard. I think, however, that I know most of the possible accents by now, by accident or by design (I kept hitting the wrong combination and coming up with a Scandinavian accent mark where I wanted a French one).
I still need a haircut. I'm sort of stalling, though, because I think my next haircut will probably be fairly radical. For one thing, I've started going grey, and I always said that when I started that, I would give up the streak. For another, I think I want to do something different with my bangs. If I don't have bangs, I have too much forehead, but there's got to be something else I can do about that. The problem with me is, I just hate putting gunk in my hair to make it behave, so I don't want a hairstyle that takes half an hour and a lot of gel or whatever to look like anything.
I have a bit of a dilemma. I filled out all the right forms and everything at the post office, and I still get other people's mail. Not only that, I get important mail, like credit card bills, for other people. What do I do with it? Take it back to the post office? Write "Return to Sender" on it and put it in the mailbox? Throw it out? I don't think I should throw it out.
I get another Semiotics exam tomorrow. My parents and my sister show up on Saturday and leave again on Sunday. Guess what I'm going to be doing on Friday? I'm looking forward to seeing my family, though. They're bringing me a microwave, and my sister is threatening to bring her cat, because she left him alone in her apartment last weekend too, and he tends to get rather annoyed when she does that. I don't think she'll actually bring him, though. This is her 17-pound, long-haired, very-much-one-person's cat we're talking about here.
Speaking of wildlife, I found a frog on the sidewalk the other day. A real, live, green, pond-type frog. I didn't know we had frogs around here. I know we have a pet store, but I don't know if it sells frogs. I've been avoiding the pet store; I miss my cats enough as it is.
I find it highly amusing that to this day, I have no idea how to write French on a PC. I only know the shortcuts for accents on a Mac keyboard. I think, however, that I know most of the possible accents by now, by accident or by design (I kept hitting the wrong combination and coming up with a Scandinavian accent mark where I wanted a French one).
I still need a haircut. I'm sort of stalling, though, because I think my next haircut will probably be fairly radical. For one thing, I've started going grey, and I always said that when I started that, I would give up the streak. For another, I think I want to do something different with my bangs. If I don't have bangs, I have too much forehead, but there's got to be something else I can do about that. The problem with me is, I just hate putting gunk in my hair to make it behave, so I don't want a hairstyle that takes half an hour and a lot of gel or whatever to look like anything.
I have a bit of a dilemma. I filled out all the right forms and everything at the post office, and I still get other people's mail. Not only that, I get important mail, like credit card bills, for other people. What do I do with it? Take it back to the post office? Write "Return to Sender" on it and put it in the mailbox? Throw it out? I don't think I should throw it out.
I get another Semiotics exam tomorrow. My parents and my sister show up on Saturday and leave again on Sunday. Guess what I'm going to be doing on Friday? I'm looking forward to seeing my family, though. They're bringing me a microwave, and my sister is threatening to bring her cat, because she left him alone in her apartment last weekend too, and he tends to get rather annoyed when she does that. I don't think she'll actually bring him, though. This is her 17-pound, long-haired, very-much-one-person's cat we're talking about here.
Speaking of wildlife, I found a frog on the sidewalk the other day. A real, live, green, pond-type frog. I didn't know we had frogs around here. I know we have a pet store, but I don't know if it sells frogs. I've been avoiding the pet store; I miss my cats enough as it is.
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Date: 2003-10-28 08:46 am (UTC)We write "UNKNOWN ADDRESSEE" on it and stick it on the mail flap. I don't know if that's proper, but it goes away and that's all I care about.
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Date: 2003-10-28 09:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-31 08:38 am (UTC)That said, is this mail addressed to your apartment? If it is your address, then I'd write "Return to Sender" or "Addressee Unknown" and send it off.
If it's to an address in your complex, take it over to whoever it belongs to and use it as a means of introducing yourself to your neighbors. "Some of your mail was delivered to my apartment."
Who knows, you could make some new friends or fall madly in love. :)