Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Enjoy My OCD Daylight Graphs

By Abby at 4:43 pm on Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Yesterday, I was freaking out about my move, so I did what I often do when I’m nervous about something: I found a repetitive, menial research task which took up about half of my cognitive resources. Basically, I busied myself. So I ended up looking up the sunrise and sunset times of Boston and Raleigh. Here’s what I learned: Boston doesn’t really have less daylight than Raleigh. It’s just on the wrong side of the time zone. Boston has good daylight, but in the early morning hours when I couldn’t care less. Raleigh has that all-important post-work daylight, which I really need to remain a happy Abby. Enjoy my OCD graphs.

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I’m Sorry!

By Abby at 10:29 am on Tuesday, November 7, 2006

My parents can’t take the stress of watching the election results come in, so they are heading even further away from civilization than they already are (a cabin in the woods) in their camper.

We’re off for two days camping in the morning. We’ll have a radio with earphones for my wife, but I’m going to try to wait until it’s all sorted out. The tedium of watching in 2004 was just too damned painful. May our collective Karma and Truth, Justice, and the American Way prevail.

I’m still feeling really sorry that I didn’t get my act together enough to be able to participate in this election. I’ve been so focused on my own “junk” that I’ve been pretty bad all year about getting the important details taken care of. I told the woman I live with that my parents were very disappointed in me for not registering, and she said, “I GAVE YOU THE FORM!” So I’m sorry to her, too. And to everyone else, too. I promise that It won’t happen again!

I’ve seen a lot of blog posts this morning reminding me to vote (I really am so sorry), but these are my favorites:

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Sign (obviously) altered for Kristin’s pleasure!

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Such a Long Way

By Abby at 1:40 pm on Monday, November 6, 2006

From where I live to my parents’ house is “1,112 mi (about 22 hours 46 mins)” according to Google. DAMN, that’s far, especially with cats. This is going to be such a long way traveling alone. Gotta make a plan. I was going to try to do it in two days, but I’m not sure I (not to mention Jeep and Maggie) can take it.