To displace some of my nerves about Ev's new house (keys 5/17, official handover 5/18) I decided to disassemble some of the dried mint that's been hanging around the kitchen in various bins for a while.

At first I was just going to put all of it into one baggie, but I decided that would be an incoherent mess of flavor. So the bags are:
* Mint (fuzzy)
* Mint (lemony)
* Mint (peppery)
* Mint (???)
* Sage!

... That last is not actually a mint as I know them, but got sorted in due to fuzziness and our extreme exhaustion as it was 2020 at the time.

They are labeled such that it wouldn't take an honest law enforcement officer too long to discern that there was no funny business, but the effect as they are spread out next to each other is ... certainly herbal. Yellface was wandering around doin' a sniff.

My desk and I are covered in shards of mint leaf. I'm looking forward to the tea, especially since when it gets way too hot out and I have to hydrate a lot, mint water is easier on me than plain water. (It's also possible that I should break out the rehydration juice at that point.)

There's a sixth bag in with this crowd because I couldn't identify the plant at all. That one is "spicy boi".

I am reminded of the time Dawn gave me a grocery sack of mint.
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Woke up at the usual ~0520 hour, hammered alarm clock, hammered alarm clock again, went back to sleep. Woke up again at phone call. Zombied over to phone, heard Marx pick it up, got knock on door that it was for me.

It was the delivery service. Dell had neglected to supply them with my apartment number. At instruction, I left a signed note, "I am expecting a delivery from Dell", so they could leave it were I not there.

Stumbled off to school. Hung with Darkside for a short bit; he had gotten some of the cinnamon quasi-jellybean candies, and had amused himself by setting his mouth on fire earlier; now he amused himself by setting mine on fire. He had a lab to get to; I had Take It Apart & Put It Back Together, this time working with the OS. Linux, today's subject.

Sheldon is unaware of some of the vast store of trivia that I have gleaned by reading the jargon file; I shared some of my wealth of knowledge with him. I hunted down the original Usenet post about Linux on Google, for his information. Teacher's pet, anyone? I'm just hoping this fun stuff will filter back to future classes. Researcher, me?

In the break between hours of lecture, Dawn gave me a rather large plastic baggie filled with spearmint and peppermint. Mmmm. Yummy smell. On advice, I have the bag open to allow the herbs to not moulder in their own moisture. To the eye untrained in legal herbalism, it looks like I'm carrying around a rather large baggie filled with something ... other than mint.

I also discovered that I deal far better with Darkside's babbling when sleep-deprived. When fully awake, I contest for equal conversation space. When half-asleep, I sit next to him, completely content to merely hear the sound of his voice, whatever he's talking about. When awake, I prefer to talk about topics of common interest -- anime is often better than RPG's.

I intend to have lots of fun with Tigereye, as soon as she's restored power and restored full functionality after whatever the hell Echo did to her while she was awake after he made repairs to her first cord.

( Random notes to self, transcribed from off of hand )