4.27.01, 7:35am

Yay. Exactly one month from my 27th birthday. I can tell you that I don't feel my age, and I likely don't act it often, either. I feel more like I'm 19 than anything else.

[deleted mini-rant on the fetus-harm thing. Be glad. My thoughts on this matter are really bloody. If you know me at all, you probably already know my position, and I'm sure you know why this bothers me so much.]

I hope I'm going out tonight; I have a ton of stuff to do this weekend, but I can do it on Saturday. Tonight, I want to go out and play.

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4.25.01, 1:58pm

I had to make some copies of a long document today. The copier we have is one of those supercool models that will do everything for you except make coffee, and I think they're working on a module to allow it to do that, too. But, the makes of this miraculous machine made one really dumb mistake.

I was taking 70-some pages, single-sided, and making them doublesided. The copier has a programming function where it'll scan everything in, and scale them, make them double sided, whatever you need it to do. So of course I make use of this nifty thing. I tell it to give me four copies.

You'd think that the people who made this fabulous machine would think, "gee.. multiple copies of a long document. Lets make it so the 'sort' option is automatically on in this mode, and if the user doesn't like it, they can turn it off. But nooooooooooo......

I had to collate the damned documents by hand. I'm just glad I decided not to combine both chapters of the manual. Eeek!

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4.25.01, 8:29am

Quoted from a wire piece on Salon.

"That's very important, because Washington can be a very acrimonious and bitter place, where people are here to further their own political agendas as opposed to doing what's right for the people," Bush said on CBS' "The Early Show."

As opposed to Shrub furthering -his- own political agendas? Or at least those of his financial backers? If that man said the sky was blue, I'd want scientific proof before I'd accept it as fact, and wonder who was paying him to say such things in the first place.

I think that this entire country is on its way to becoming an "acrimonious and bitter place." Do you think they had to spell 'acrimonious' phonetically on his 3x5 cards?

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4.25.01, 5:14am

I dreamed I was playing a drinking game with a group of people I used to work with, a few random strangers from the 'net, and many of the people I knew in high school. The game was pretty wasteful, and thus rather counterintuitive, but hey.. it's a dream, and since when do drinking games make sense? (The dumbest one I ever played needs six people, and a die. You roll the die, and if your number comes up, you get to drink. We were pretty toasted when we came up with it.)

So the one I dreamed of works this way: you start with an overfull shotglass of something (in the dream it was tequila - ick.), and everyone stands in a circle. The glass gets passed around - not always in the circle; you can skip people, go backwards, whatever - and the first person to spill has to drink the shot. Then it starts over.

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4.24.01, 7:29am

Last night, the club was -packed-.... and the music was fabulous. I think the DJ was trying to kill me; she kept playing these sets of songs that I just *had* to dance to.. I danced more last night than I have in the past three times I've gone out.

A note to people who like pale colors: winter pale legs and peachy-cream-beige capri pants is a *really* bad combo. I saw a woman at the train station this morning wearing them, and did a doubletake, because I wasn't sure that she was wearing pants.

What else.. not much of note. I'm in that weird tired/hyper mood right now, and I'd very much like for it to choose one extreme or the other.

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4.23.01, 9:33am

It sounds like the building has pissed off a hive of very large, very loud bees. They're paving the street, and there's this unending loud buzz/hum noise that is making it though two walls. I'm glad I don't work by a window.

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4.23.01, 5:13am

Last night's dream was pretty gross. It was about poop, power-outs, bathrooms with glass windows in the doors, and obscure role playing games. I'm trying to sort out what it means, and haven't come up with anything yet.

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4.20.01, 2.39pm

I like the new graphics and layout more than I thought I would. Cool.

Now I just have to see if I break the layout when I don't shove everything into the archives quickly enough. Heh.

I have a weird mix of the Cardigan's Lovefool and the Bjork song that was on teh Tank Girl soundtrack running though my head.

I have to get Tank Girl on DVD, I think. I can't wait for my birthday.. I'm buying myself the full set of Black Adder DVDs as a present. (They're coming out about a week before my b-day. Perfect timing, huh?) *grin*

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4.19.01, 8:56pm

Changed the graphics, too. I guess I was sick of looking at them or something. They'll likely change again once I see them on a PC.

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4.19.01, 8:11pm

Change to the page to make updates easier; I no longer need to scroll past all of the sidebar stuff to add to this. Since I do most of my updating on the files on the server, and not offline, it's going to be much simpler. Yaay!

Watched But I'm A Cheerleader.. cute movie!

Currently watching Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke. Interesting imagery. Similar to the Romeo + Juliet of a few years ago, but less colors. Lots of niiiice eye candy, though.

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4.19.01, 9:28am

This is the second day in a row that I've overslept. Bah.

My guess is that Mike is waking up when the alarm goes off, nudges me and says "wake up," and promply drops back to sleep. Needless to say, I haven't been noticing the alarm. *sigh*

We watched The Crow: Salvation last night.. ouch. NOT a good movie (not that we were expecting it to be, of course.) But this third Crow is a sucky crow.. he's a wuss. Mike disliked the second one because he didn't speak English.. Sylvia commented on this third one that he'd be better if he didn't have to speak at all. I have to agree.

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4.18.01, 10:13am

Yeah yeah.. I know.. no updates in a over a week. I'm a bad person.

There hasn't been much to add, and I'm presently a little giddy from tiredness and hunger. (Even though I overslept by an hour this morning, and I just ate some popcorn.) Forgot my wallet this morning, so no lunch for me. At least I remembered to grab some granola bars on the way out of the house, so I won't die or anything.

I'm aiming for a pretension award somewhere.. I bought black Vodka the other day. It's highly amusing, if slightly strange to drink. (It's got a slight medicinal taste - not nearly as strong as Jagermeister, but it's there - and a 'hot' aftertaste.) I wonder if I could 'float' it on regular vodka, or vice versa.. that would make an amusing drink. I'll have to try it at some point.

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4.10.01, 2:23pm

Well, all that fuss about Jury Duty, and I was dismissed.

Granted, I was on call-in status, which meant that I had to call in the middle of the day to find out if I had to show up or not, but I didn't have to go.

I suppose that if I got chosen for a Jury, I'd be happy to do it, but CA screws you on rates. They'll give you $15 a day. A Day! I make that in an hour (literally, actually.. I sat down with a calculator and checked.) NY at least gave you $40 for the day you had to spend at the courthouse, waiting to go into the room, and get selected/rejected.

But I'm safe now for the next 12 months, which is nice. Though you KNOW I'll get called again next year.. Why do the computers that randomly pick names hate me so much?

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4.9.01, 8:50am

Did my hair yesterday, finally. Discovered that if you catch it fast enough, you don't need to have a great big swoop of dye across your face, with the help of a little bleach-stuff (Clorox Clean-up With Bleach.. highly advised, but not on skin). Haven't seen it in real light yet, but it's a little darker than normal. Should fade to my usual obnoxiously bright pink soon, though. Yaay!

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4.6.01, 11:08am

My really evil pun of the however-long:

What would you call 144 mg of caffeine? (besides "Two Cans of Jolt?") Gross overcaffination.

Yes, please smack me. I think I'm going decaf for the next few months.

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4.6.01, 9:24am

So we've got all of these kids getting in trouble for making lists of people who -frustrate- them. I think that the schools are getting a *wee* bit hyperreactive, don't you?

Thinking about it, I wonder if I was in school today if I'd have gotten myself arrested/thrown out/in really deep doo-doo. I was hardly a model student, I was sullen, quiet, friends with the weirdos, and played trucks and GI-Joes with the boys at recess.

I was also teased a lot, and would respond in kind on occasion. You have to wonder if my usual response to the "You aren't saved. You're gonna go to Hell" nonsense could have been construed as a threat ("I'll see you there first!").

I used to make up shitlists. I have a collection of drawings I did in highschool featuring me as the executor of this one guy who'd hurt my feelings very badly (I can't quite call it a 'broken heart,' though it felt like it at the time.) There's a whole series of them. They helped me get over the pain, and vent some of my frustrations.

If anyone had given me access to a headman's axe, and handed me the boy all tied up, would I have? Hell no. The worst I did to him was say a few choice nasty things about his anatomy and ignore him in school (which wasn't hard.. he wasn't talking to me, either.)

So if I was in school -now- and did these things, yes, I think I'd probably have been arrested. And since this is America, sued for emotional damages and slander or something. Yeesh.

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4.5.01, 12:39pm

The last entry is further proof that I really ought to sleep more.. "an every interesting walk." At least I got the a and an thing correct. Yeesh!

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4.5.01, 5:46am

An observation made last night: high-relief cobblestone paving and elevator-sole boots make for an every interesting walk. Not recomended.

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4.4.01, 2.26pm

Ugh. I feel like I'm going to puke. The sandwich place messed up again and clumped a whole bunch of avacado on my food, so I removed it (and used a napkin to literally wipe it off the meat), but I guess the idea of it has lingered, because I feel really queasy right now, and if it doesn't go away, I don't know what I'm going to go.

I don't really want to go home: I've got rehersal tonight, and I have to stop by the fabric store, but if I'm going to revert into a miserable little ball curled up under my desk and moaning to avoid yuckness, I shouldn't be here.

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4.4.01, 8:35am

Ugh. Too much to do, not enough time to do it in, and I have to sleep, eat and work, still.

How do I get myself into these things? And how will I get myself out?

I found a bunch of gray hairs last night. (Yes, I -still- haven't gotten around to bleaching and redying my hair yet.. I want to do it this weekend, so the color will be fresh and very, very bright for jury duty.) I can't tell if they're stress-induced, or if I'm just starting to fall apart and get old.

Either way, I'm miffed. I don't want gray hair. I don't want to be stressy, either, and I'd really like a chance to get a full 8 hours of sleep sometime this month.

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