Test

Warning: Not worth your time at all.

This is a test. It is only a test.

I’d like to see what this looks like when I have a fairly large chunk of text, maybe with an image embedded somewhere too, to see if the text wraps or gets funky. I probably should have just pasted some of that lorem ipsum crap in here. I used to have a little macro written that would do it whenever I typed ;;lipsum, but now I think my spell checker is getting in the way of that working. Oh well. It’s not a big deal to have to do a little free writing every now and then.

I can already feel myself veering toward a kind of psychoanalytic therapy session, where I’m vomiting up everything about how my life is a total mess right now and I dreamed about my grandmother coming back to life but not knowing she’d been dead, and there was a pool full of very large non-aquatic creatures that were living on the bottom just fine somehow. It seemed to make them larger, living down there. The tarantula was just certainly large enough that it could only exist in a nightmare, but not so large that my subconscious called bullshit on its existence.

Not that my subconscious is very good about that anyway, given how it totally swallowed the fact that the spiders were living at the bottom of a pool, alongside some other strange, faceless creature whom my brain identified as a “cheese eel”. Sounds delicious to me. Well, not really. Unagi tends to have a sort of metallic taste, like what you’d imagine it’d taste like to suck on a cracked glass thermometer with mercury inside. So it’d have to be a very unusual cheese to pair well with that taste, which I really don’t mind on its own. Now that I think about it some more, I can’t imagine a cheese whose mouth feel doesn’t totally ruin the enjoyment of eel’s tender, brittle segmented meat.

So I guess that really was a nightmare then.

Hey look that’s me! I don’t actually wear glasses. Someone put those dork goggles on me. But it turns out this is the only pic of me I have that wouldn’t be totally inappropriate to accompany an academic portfolio or job application.

This pic would be next in line:

Anyway, this should give me enough text to see how this stuff displays. I think I’ll probably just end up using Medium as my blogging platform anyway, but I can at least post this in there too to get a two-fer out of the work.