I've had several very annoying days at work so I'm in the mood to do something mindless for a few minutes, therefore you all are getting spammed with a ... A MEME!!! ::cue ominous music:: Gakked from scriggle.

Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up.
1. A platform for hanging stage lights
2. Bookshelves full of notebooks
3.Filing cabinets
4. The other wing of my building
5. Cthulhu. (No, seriously! He's on top of the shelf keeping watch over the financial report notebooks!)

( more memeage behind the cut )

Picture meme, taken from everyone

* Take a picture of yourself right now.
* Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
* Post that picture with NO editing.
* Post these instructions with your picture.

Okay, I cheated a bit, I had someone else take the picture because when I take it myself it ends up looking like I took it through a fisheye lens. And I resized the photo smaller so it's not so obnoxious. But I didn't zap any zits or wrinkles or anything. :D ( It's behind the cut. )

Here's my version of the "5 Things TV Meme" that's been going around my flist. It's kinda long so ( I cut it )

NOTE! I edited part of my this because I was originally trying to think of moments in TV programs, not TV in general, which includes NEWS.

I'm just a posting fool lately, but I had to share this. The northwest corner of our yard is overrun by concord grape vines-- they've climbed up and around every tree and bush within reach, and this year they are bearing like crazy. Usually I leave them for the critters (of which we have many) but there were so many this year that I went out the other day and picked a couple of pounds of them for myself, and there was still a lot on the vines. Then I realized I had no idea what to do with them.

I didn't want to make jelly since the one time I tried that before I failed miserably (I got grape syrup, pretty much), so I went online and looked for non-jelly concord grape recipes. Well, there are about a million recipes for grape pie, which, um, sounded kind of nasty to me. But scattered in amongst the pie recipes I found one for a chutney and one for a conserve. The chutney sounded good but called for an ingredient I didn't have on hand and I didn't feel like going out for. The conserve, on the other hand, I had all the ingredients for except Ruby Port, but I had a bottle of Dubonnet which is kinda-sorta similar so I went with that recipe, but added a couple of ingredients from the chutney recipe (more spices) just because they sounded good.

It was kind of a pain slipping the skins of 2 pounds of grapes but OMG, so worth it! The fragrance of the conserve as it cooked was like perfume, and it tastes amazing, too. Tonight I need to make some fresh bread to eat it on, though the original recipe was supposed to accompany duck. Anyway, just in case some of you have concord grapes you need to do something with, ( here's the recipe: )

Also, I took that Flesch-Kincaid thing that I saw over at aukestrel's and now I feel like I ought to be using more and bigger words or something. ;D

kelliem's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9
Average number of words per sentence:	19.91
Average number of syllables per word:	1.42
Total words in sample:	1573
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In guilty-pleasure Who Wants To Be A Superhero news, oh Parthenon, much as I love you, a girly scream is not a battle cry, and no amount of heroic chin-lifting is going to make it so. ;D

bethbethbeth and imkalena made me post this. ;)
( Which Harry Potter Character Are You? )

(quiz seen over at bethbethbeth's)

Your English Skills:

Punctuation: 100% Spelling: 100% Vocabulary: 100% Grammar: 80%

(And thank you, aukestrel for your efforts in making me a better grammarian.)

I saw this "Where Do You Fit" quiz from the Pew Foundation linked over at aukestrel's and had to try it. Here's what I got:

Based on your answers to the questionnaire, you most closely resemble survey respondents within the Connectors typology group. This does not mean that you necessarily fit every group characteristic. Connectors make up 7% of the American public.( Read more... )

In other news, I think everyone else on campus has already left for the long weekend, it's like a morgue here. And I am boooooorrrreeeedddddd.

Now that all the answers to yesterday's meme have been guessed, I'm posting the answers here ( behind a cut. )