I don't know what got me sick...

I've had food poisoning twice this month.

I haven't had food poisoning in a long time, but then I cook everything myself most of the time, so yeah.

I love the food in this town, but the kitchens are all filthy, to a one.

I did cook it myself unfortunately [gonk]

Well, it happens. Don't be too hard on yourself.

Just remember anything is pretty much safe if you cook the hell out of it.

Don't tell my roomies, but I've had to make dinner before and found the chicken had started to turn, and just washed it with salt and boiled the hell out of it with a bunch of spices. Didn't smell or taste off or make anyone sick at all, just had to cook it to death.

I can't believe people used to let chickens hang for days at room temperature. I'd have starved back then.

But then, that was one of the original uses of spices, making bad food taste okay.

Anyway, I think my point was that proper temperature is important. Cook everything thoroughly, and even if it's off you won't get sick.

This day has been full of food talk. I don't know why, but everyone has been talking about food.

It's okay, we'll all eventually have eaten, and then people can talk about what they want to eat later. XD

Well, there's always other things to talk about, like... Iunno, stuff.

That... people don't eat or whatever...

Ooh, awesome conversation starter. Pencil box.

<_<; Yeah, I fail it.

I know how it can be. Not with K-pop in particular, but I understand.

*nods*

There are times I feel like all I talk about is Berksey. Like it bores people or something, but she's an important person in my life. I do worry sometimes though that I talk about her more than people care to hear.

But then, she's admitted she feels that way sometimes, as well. She talks about me a lot, too.

Yeah, we sort of dissolved the list of rules once she understood their purpose.

She's not stupid, she just needed to understand why. Now she can work it out on her own. I think she's grown a lot in a very short time, and I'm really proud of her. She doesn't even wake me up to do so many things for her anymore, she's doing a lot better at doing for herself.

I think a lot of it has to do with realizing Google can teach you anything about anything.

Now instead of asking me, she just Googles it. XD I do feel better knowing she can handle being around this many people unsupervised. That's a huge load off, right there. I feel like a proud mommy or something, lol.

She can do all sorts of neat things, too. Stuff I can't do.

I sat the other day and talked to a friend about this website he wanted, and then I'm hearing myself say all sorts of stuff I don't understand, and the next thing I know she's built and designed the whole thing. Like, down to the Google+ widget for the news page.

I used to think I was possessed or something, now I feel like I share my "temple" with an angel instead. She's a bloody genius.

Just takes her a little longer to learn things that come naturally to me, like grammar and stuff.

I'm still trying to teach her to use emotes. XD

Yeah, pretty much. Wasn't always, though, not in conversation, anyway.

She used to do all of her typing in lowercase, never capitalized anything.

She has one advantage over me, though, she doesn't mix her spellings between American and English.

I do that a lot, and it sort of sucks sometimes. Spellcheck hates me. XD

I think she does her best "writing" when it's technical stuff, she knows a lot of technical things. It's sort of her K-pop, in a way.

I've found more than one thread that she's utterly killed with her genius, like they couldn't bring themselves to respond after seeing what level she was on, lol.

The computer section has a thread about Linux, which I think she sort of slew, not that anyone else was posting anyway, but I'd have been afraid to say anything after all that. XD

Like she nerd-bombed it, lol.

I like lots of stuff, like Dead Can Dance, the Beatles, a bit of gothic stuff, touch of industrial, and I occasionally go on a pop bender.

Once in a great while I turn the actual radio on and tune it to a pop station, it can be fun hearing new things now and then.

Oh, and Johnny Cash. But then, it's hard not to like him.

And yeah, she's way different than me, like night and day sometimes, even though we sort of occupy the same space, after a fashion.

That's odd... for a while they were both you... so now I'm confused as to when that switched. [lol]

Kinda interesting to think about. owo
So how do you "talk" to them?

Hello, Poet!

How to talk to us? Just treat us as separate people, and it's all good, lot less confusion that way.

We just sort of share the same corporeal dwelling, but she's her own person and so am I. As if nobody's noticed, lol.

Basically, I came here, and had a mule account, and then she wanted to hang out here, too, and I couldn't exactly let her make her own account, because the two-account limit and all, so she did my muley stuff until she proved she could handle being around people on a forum again without any major upsets. Once she started talking to people, I knew the jig was up and I'd have to come out and tell everyone about it, I'm just glad it didn't all go to pooh, like some other places we've been.

Finally, I just let her keep the mule account as her own. She's even dressed her avi a bit, and that's a good thing, I think. She needs something to call her own besides me, a t-shirt, some toys and art supplies. I think she handles herself okay, and she's even made friends, and that's awesome.

I think it's good for her, and that's good for both of us.

Oh, and she thinks you're really interesting and nice, Poet. Just so you know. So do I. ^_^