Wednesday, June 27, 2007

so much for refining my language skills


Top-Model has now taken up the hobby of posting passive-aggressive notes in grammatically-incorrect German. Occasional misspellings, syntax errors included at no additional charge.

It's official: being forced to improve my German has significantly decreased in merit as an argument for living in a shared flat.

Some of T-M's behavior scares me with its irrationality. I'll think about posting some examples later. When I need a "schlimmer-geht-immer"* boost, I read the Antics of P.

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* =things can always get worse

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Saturday, June 9, 2007

why your Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' isn't happy


Dear T-M,

Someone keeps giving you small spider plants, and you keep planting them in humongous pots. None of them are growing. Our living room has a dreary collection of sad-sack ostensibly easy-to-grow plants.

You wouldn't believe my tips for better luck with these babies, so talk to Eva in Sweden.

Wikipedia, btw, is looking for a source for this quote: "...ingestion can often result in vomiting and temporarily altered behavior." Hmm, T-M, have you been eating your chlorophytum?

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