It is Passover and I am hiding online

[rachelmanija]

I forgot to eat anything today and just drank a glass of wine. I am suddenly noticing that I seem to be making more than the usual amount of typos (but I am correcting them as I go, I hope.)

I just peeled and chopped and put in the roasting pan vegetables (carrots, red fingerling potatoes, garlic, onions, parsnips, turnips, purple potatoes, sweet potatoes) for sixteen people. I am at a friend's house for Passover. There are sixteen people, three dogs, and three rabid bats cockatiels parakeets of DOOM. Actually the dogs are of DOOM, they kept interfering in the kitchen. Anyway, I had a fit of not-dealing-with-human-beings-ness and am "checking my e-mail."

Dinner id served in fifteen minutes if we are on time. I hope the begetables are ready, but I am concerned.

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[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

your "begetables" might be concerned about their identities, too~ XD

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

At least I didn't write "smuarr" when I meant "summary" like someone did in the Naruto comments.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You've known me for how long, and you're surprised by my typos?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That one was unusually good.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My friend Clint and I have on occasion adopted my typoes, if they seemed to fill a niche. Bpggle is one: it's like boggle, only moreso. (Hence his LJ name.) And every so oftne - haven't in three or four years - send him mail from a character named Anastasis, due to mistyping Anastasia. (My friend Jennifer occasionally got mail from someone named Gunther who was passionately in love with her. He sent postcards to her workplace, just to screw with the minds of her coworkers. They ended up getting into it, and occasionally she'd find a phone message slip from Gunther at her desk.)

Elarning is another one, although it never quite gained a definition.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The best typo ever was discovered by Jo Walton in a term paper: "Adam Lurie believed that everyone could achieve onion with God."

My second-favorite was committed by one of my bosses, in the description of a character in a TV script: "A car ran across his face."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*snerk* That's great. All I ahve to offer is a book on that Japanese all-female theatre tradition that I can't spell, where they were talking about public discourse and made the obvious typo.

Or, actually, the school newspaper at the university I got my MLIS at, which proudly proclaimed, in 72-point font:

BADHDAD FALLS!

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

I saw that~ XD

It'd make such a cool thing to growl at coworkers, though. Now I just need to find me some coworkers...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Your last sentence makes it sound as if you're typing with a cold.

[literaticat.livejournal.com]

Good yontif! Now go eat something to soak up that wine!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Done. One of the Passover guests is Belina, who knows you from Books Inc. She is Halle's sister, and recommended you to Halle as the perfect assistant. She thinks you are very smart.

[literaticat.livejournal.com]

Oh, how funny. I don't really work at that location anymore so I haven't seen her in ages, but she was cool!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I mean, this all came up tonight in conversation. I'd never met her before.

[literaticat.livejournal.com]

Too bad I don't live in LA!

[larryhammer]

It's not so much that the seder requires you drink four glasses of wine so much as that you drink two of them on an empty stomach.

Fortunately, last night, we worked off the tipsy with geography card games, before our last guest drove 50 miles home.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I drank the first one while I was roasting the vegetables. Which were a smash hit, by the way, even with the kids. The adults especially enjoyed the whole garlic cloves.

I am still there, having another unsociable moment. One of the kids has a Box O' Plagues, with a sickly cow, a rubber boil ("Put one on and imagine them covering your entire body"), sunglasses for darkness, a teeny packet of cotton balls for hail, and a frog the size of Texas.

[larryhammer]

Box o' Plagues is Way Cool.

"... frogs on his head and frogs on his toes!" he warbled.

---L.

[literaticat.livejournal.com]

LOVE THE BOX O PLAGUES!

I have a DK Passover sticker book - there are these very photographic stickers for "River of Blood", "Darkness", "Lamb Shank", etc. Hilarious. Pharaoh is a 9 year old blonde.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Pharaoh is a 9 year old blonde.

The 9 year old part would explain a lot, actually, given Pharaoh's complete inability to stick with any decision he makes ...

[janni.livejournal.com]

I may need my own plague box! :-)