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Melander

I am here for Friends

About Me

Do NOT go here. Here there be dragons.

My Interests

Puns and palindromes, sarcasm and irony, talking but not listening, less words, not pathos and not bathos, stimulants, drinky

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet the world to sing, in perfect harmony... Oh, wait, that's "teach."

Music:

Not slow or twangy.

Movies:

Yes, unless I have the stationaries.

Television:

Philips Magnavox, 19"

Books:

You really don't want an English major talking about books. Really.

Heroes:

I'm holding out.

My Blog

If you started this program, continue.

Come and listen to my story about a geek named Mel,Had a nice ThinkPad with all the buzzers and the bells,Then one day, she installed a service pack,And the poor XP registry started to crack.Yeah, wel...
Posted by Melander on Sun, 20 May 2007 02:23:00 PST

Yay!

Well folks, it's mostly official.  I am graduated.  And because I'm vaguely shaped like a cylinder, you can use me to measure liquids!  (Sorry, bit of scientific humor there.  Sorr...
Posted by Melander on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:00:00 PST

I should be studying

This afternoon at 4:00pm, I will start taking my FINAL final test.  Had two yesterday--oh wait, I had a test and wrote a FREAKING book (10 pages of essay questions--in a Comp Sci class.  I k...
Posted by Melander on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:31:00 PST

404'ed!!!

(Okay, I'm not finding "bemused" among the choices for current mood.  Apparently, my moods are too complex for MySpace.  Anyway, mentally add a "Bemused" mood thingy above.)So, I was clickin...
Posted by Melander on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:21:00 PST

Non-employment

This one is for OfficeMate #7, who asks how unemployment is treating me.I can't say I've been missing it much, Bob!Oh, and the gear is much, much better.  Got a new T60p 2.16 GHz dual-core ThinkP...
Posted by Melander on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:45:00 PST

Pronounce this finger!

My husband reads a lot of sci-fi/fantasy stuff.  Me, not so much.  Grad school pretty much destroyed my desire to read fiction.If I do happen to go through the effort of reading fiction, it ...
Posted by Melander on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST

Where is "fat"???

So, I'm filling out this damn profile thingy and it gets to the part where it asks me about weight.  I click the little pulldown menu, and I see: Slim / slender Athletic Average Some extra bagga...
Posted by Melander on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:06:00 PST

Sheesh

Utterly convinced that I was the only human being on planet Earth who was not on MySpace, I decided to controvert my life to date and become a joiner. (No, Woody, I ain't talkin' cabinets--but there i...
Posted by Melander on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:49:00 PST