They're just material things...

They’re just material things…

Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Sacha Chua

… and I shouldn’t get attached to them, but it’s frustrating coming
back to find stuff missing: two of my Corelle bowls, three of my
saucers, five of my mugs…

The suitemate who habitually took my china out of the suite not only
is no longer here, but was also the one who gave me such a hard time
before.

I want my own place.

Random Emacs symbol: auto-coding-regexp-alist-lookup – Function: Lookup `auto-coding-regexp-alist’ for the contents of the current buffer.

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