ow, the price of my new bookshelf

Someone curbed a tall, sturdy, solid wood bookshelf yesterday. It was a very awkward lift, and I had to carry the thing up the hill and up the ziggurat-like steps to the house. The problem wasn't the weight, or the walk, or the steps -- it was the fact that the initial lift was on inclined ground, and I was sloppy. Now my back is mad at me. It's a very minor injury. It'll be gone in two days.

I had planned to get in extra-early today (yes, The Skin Factory is open), but I'm snowbound. Part of me wants the snowplows to hurry up and get here, but lots of me wants them to leave me trapped.

Friday I went to ManRay, which was okay-ish. Too many old men in thongs (i.e., one). darla was feeling a little off, so she stayed here and watched movies with rojagato.

Saturday was the 10th Annual Post-Mortem Valentine's Party, a celebration of romance-related bitterness and distaste for the Hallmark Holiday. Couples can attend, as long as they do not engage in schmoopiness. I drank scotch and tormented pyrric with Hindi and Chinese reincarnation humor. Next time you help deliver a Chinese baby, remember why he's crying: "Human again? Oh, nooo, I fucked it up."

nose hairs are super gross

Yesterday I looked at myself in the mirror, and noticed, in horror, that I have a small number of visible nose hairs. Jesus Haploid Christ. I really hope people haven't been staring at them for weeks, thinking Disgusting. Hasn't he noticed them? Someone should tell him. Not me, though. I immediately visited World Dominating Corporation and searched for a solution. I came across the best review ever:

Useless little thing!, October 28, 2004
Reviewer: Maureen Mangon (Fairhope, AL United States)

If you nose comes in a straight line, and has right angles in it, and has no curves in it, and you can't actually smell with it, and you don't actually grow hair in it, then this might work for you. A waste of money if they gave it away. Try another company that makes a round one that fits round noses and ends in "onic".

I took her advice and bought the Panasonic ER411NC Nose and Ear Hair Groomer.

I also bought An Instance of the Fingerpost and How to Rebuild Small-Block Chevy Lt-1/Lt-4 Engines. Total price? Five bucks, thanks to the $30 off certificate you get for applying for a World Dominating Corporation credit card. Free shipping, too.

(Sure, I could have bought little scissors at CVS instead, but look at all the crap I got for five bucks. Besides, getting stuff in the mail is more fun than going to the drugstore.)

ZNUH

I feel all clubtastic, bum back be darned. My plan is to hit Ceremony early enough to catch znuh's set.