Melissa Dunphy

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Plans and Provisions

I'm working sixteen hours a day on the house and not answering my phone or e-mails. It's therapeutic in some ways, and maddening in others. Spending so much time and energy on the house is going a long way but also making me long to get away, so I have been making plans - or daydreaming, depending on which way you look at it.

Once I finish my degree, and before I go to grad school, Matt and I are going to do that cross-country driving holiday we've been dreaming of since we first met. We'll sell the house. Hopefully, with all the work we're putting in, we'll make a decent profit. We'll then take some of that money and trade in Matt's car for a Honda Element.

See, it looks like an SUV, but its fuel efficiency is 21/27 mpg. My two-door Hyundai Accent hatchback is only three miles per gallon better. And it's big enough inside that we can sleep in it when necessary. And it's relatively cheap - new ones are $18,900, but there are many available secondhand. Yeah, it's ugly as shit, but I am liking it more and more as the Matt & Mel American Odyssey Mobile (except it's an Element, not an Odyssey).

Oh, fuck. Every fucking Randroid libertarian arsewipe in the world is going to log onto the internet when this movie is released and shit in every forum I frequent. No doubt they won't stick to the topic of the movie, either, but pollute every thread and every topic with their moon logic. Fan-fucking-tastic.

Pffft. Pink gets cranky about Australian wool. I suppose we should just kill the sheep and make them into ugg boots instead.

Ah, sweet Allentown. Almost as cool as Scranton.

Strandbeest

The drift of the magnetic pole has changed direction and accelerated substantially. I've always been fascinated with the idea that the magnetic poles could suddenly "flip." I hope it happens. When I'm really old and about to die anyway.

Guess it's time to take Orson Scott Card off my favorite authors list. Goddamn. I hear too his new scifi series is frighteningly right-wing.

Parasite which affects 40% of the population turns men into idiots, women into sluts. Suddenly the world makes a lot more sense to me.

Via Jill, a delightful rant regarding Pachelbel's Canon.

Labels: House, vacation

3 Comments:

Natali said...: Oh ew @ Orson Scott Card. I have heard his name in passing (generic sci fi writer?), but never read his books. Don't really intend to now.; 12/28/06 7:39 PM
~monique~ said...: Not that it should matter, but that Honda got a really great review on the british car show Top Gear, for some odd reason that car is only available in the states though :(

Orson Scott Card is indeed a stupid wanker, i still like the Ender series.. well except for Xenocide, was it just me or was that book extremely painful to read?; 12/29/06 2:22 AM
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