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BlndDog


A veritable suppository of knowledge on the accurate use of words

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  • 333 weeks
    Coming Up Next...

    So after a long time of relative inactivity, I'm now relatively back. My current plan is to finish Holy Land and Room to Grow in parallel. Both stories are more than halfway done, and especially with Holy Land I need to just get through it. That story did not come about naturally. I had conceived it as a huge 100,000 word+ story, but there's just no time for that anymore.

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  • 397 weeks
    BlndDog in the Big City

    I've been in Toronto for two weeks. Got a bachelor suite that I don't have to share, and it's great. Incredible, given the price. No suspicious stains in the bathtub, no brown stuff baked onto the stove, and there's so much shelf space in the kitchen. And food is cheap here.

    I didn't splurge on a memory foam mattress, so unfortunately I can't do this:

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  • 406 weeks
    The Move

    I've started selling off furniture, looking at plane tickets and sending housing inquiries. By the end of August I'll be in an unfurnished bachelor's flat in Toronto with a suitcase, two at most. It's definitely the biggest move I've had to do on my own. You can't take much when you're traveling by plane. It's going to be hectic and stressful and very exciting. In February I was in Toronto for 2

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  • 413 weeks
    1/4 way to 1000000

    With the new chapter of Holy Land, I have officially published over 250,000 words on this site. As a comparison, the OED contains entries for just 171,476 unique words in current use. I'm doing way better than those hacks at the dictionary factory!

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  • 429 weeks
    Fact or Fiction by The (late) Big Bad Borox, Revisited: Largely the same amount of grammatical problems, and the same story

    A few months is a long time. Long enough for Big Bad Borox to become Barnside, the hero of… barn sides, I guess. My personal head canon is that the current author is actually the adopted daughter or son of the original Big Bad Borox, who died as he lived, balls deep in a hog and firing two assault rifles into the air.

    Thank you Cards against Humanity and Mad Libs.

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Sep
17th
2016

BlndDog in the Big City · 12:39am Sep 17th, 2016

I've been in Toronto for two weeks. Got a bachelor suite that I don't have to share, and it's great. Incredible, given the price. No suspicious stains in the bathtub, no brown stuff baked onto the stove, and there's so much shelf space in the kitchen. And food is cheap here.

I didn't splurge on a memory foam mattress, so unfortunately I can't do this:

But that would have been the only benefit of a memory foam mattress for a guy of my age.

Lab work is uneven, as it always is. Some days I sit around reading papers and on other days I'm staying late for actual experiments. I feel like I'll be doing more of the latter as my project gets going.

Also, why are all the funding applications so early? Contributions to my field? I'm still trying to figure out where all the glassware is!

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Glad to hear things are overall good.

4215901 Thanks.

It's just so different here. Without even crossing a national border I'm in a place with a markedly different climate, and there are even some differences in culture.

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Your welcome

Does that make it harder or easier?

4217252 Easier I guess. But it's a bigger difference than I expected.

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