Crop circles in carpets and such

Damnit. I wanted to write an entire LJ entry using the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) but Livejournal doesn't support a lot of the symbols in the font so it turned out like this:

soʊ, aɪv dəsaɪdəɾ˺ ðæt aɪm goʊɪŋ t ͪu ɹaɪt ðɪs p ͪost kəmp ͪli:ɾli: ɪn IPA sɪmbəlz bik ͪɒz ɪts ʌ gɹeɪt ͪ weɪ ɒv pɹæktɪsɪŋ ænɾ pɹəkɾæstəneɪɾɪŋ æt ðə seɪm t ͪime.

(So, I've decided that I'm going to write this post completely in IPA symbols because it's a great way of practising and procrastinating at the same time.)

Oh well. It's just as well, really, because that one sentence took me forever to write. A whole post would have taken all night. :p Anyway, onto the real post...

I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Possibly because Stormy, for the third day in a row, woke me up at precisely 7:30 am and refused to stop meowing loudly until I took him all the way down the freezing corridor, across the cold tiles of the kitchen floor and laundry, and let him out into the backyard. Then I went back to bed for the half hour I still had left before I had to get up to go to uni. Damn cat.

( Misanthropic rant, among other things )