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I cannot believe how bloody cold this apartment gets. I double-checked, and the radiators are wide open. When we cleaned up the unpleasantness from last night, Kat took everything up to her mom's to superwash the bedding we didn't throw out, because, well, her mom's washing machine doesn't take quarters. :-) As a result, I just slept on the bed, but in my sleeping bag, which actually kept me warm. Since the weather changed for the colder, it was the first time I was warm earlier than thirty minutes after tucking into bed. How's that for a poorly-constructed sentence?

Do you ever wonder about the rules for hyphenating adjective phrases like that? I like hyphens, so I throw them in all the time. I like commas too, and I tend to use them to break up pauses similar to those I use when I speak. I'm sub-visual, so they're what I'm reading when I'm speaking. It's a result of writing to the SAM on the Apple when I was a kid -- the speech synthesizer was a little weak with timing and pronunciation, so you'd have to creatively misspell and mispunctuate to make it a little more plausible. I lost my fifteen-year-old copy of Strunk and White from fifth grade, so I'll wing it. English is hard, let's go shopping.

Anyway, it was an odd feeling not to wish my feet were warmer, just five minutes after climbing in. We have bedding again, but I'm sleeping in the bag again tonight.

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