okay, so this is the first run of this new journal thingie
so!
it's wednesday night, i am
waiting for my laundry to be done so i can go to bed
and hopefully sleep the sleep of the just.
anubis has taken to swinging on the bras
hanging on the doorknob of the closet door and scratching on a strangely noisy
chest since i moved the furniture, but this morning i managed to slow the inevitable waking process by putting
a pillow over my head to protect me from the questing paw.
she is very very sweet, but she is more interested in
mornings than i am and she is less plagued by
insomnia and nightmares.
god, i hate the nightmares.
anyway, it's almost time for the laundry to be done, so maybe i'll see if this actually goes the way it's supposed to go
and then log off and head down to the garage.
cheers!
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it is so so wonderful to know that tomorrow is payday and i can write any number of checks today that will not arrive at the bank until i actually have the funds to cover them.
yay!
in other news...well, there really isn't any.
just sitting at my desk and fiddling with this journal thingie
to see what happens.
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last night i went over to play cards with my friends corey and allen.
i LOVE playing cards, and we
spent a few hours eating pizza, catching up on news and playing "spite and
malice"--i think i won
two out of the three games, but i can't remember for
sure, since winning wasn't the point, really.
anyway, i was over there until after midnight--on a
school night!--and then i dragged my sorry ass home
by cab, since i didn't feel like waiting for the bus
that might not ever come, and then of course had to check my email and at least
briefly flirt with a handsome boy in belgium i've got my eye on.
a girl has responsibilities!
so, anubis very forcefully woke me up a little after
now comes the problem:
tomorrow is saturday and i
want more than anything to sleep long and well...so, do i
get up at
i bet i get up.
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last night i had an amazingly
good time with the prom for my high school...
i went to the top of the mark first, with a coworker,
and had what ended up being a $20 vodka gimlet that really tasted like about
the worst well vodka i've ever had, even though it
was supposed to be stoli. we had to pay for "entertainment",
which was a bad jazz band.
then we walked across the street to the
after the prom we went over to the
i am fairly certain we were the best-dressed people
to ever grace that bar and i had the sterling
opportunity to take home a very cute irish boy, but i didn't do it, probably because i
was there with three of my coworkers more than because i
have suddenly developed any sense at all. maybe next time.
today the ccb was supposed to be over but he's sick,
so i took a lengthy nap and now am preparing to clean
the apartment up a bit.
you can guess how much progress i'm making!
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oh, my! it's been
a busy week.
there was the prom on saturday...and i was busy on sunday-monday
morning, then sleepy monday afternoon. ahem.
tuesday i went on a
wonderfully fun little bay cruise with my friend doug
and then over to allen's to pick up a bookcase i was taking and doug carried it
upstairs for me and we sat around talking until waaay
too late for a school night.<br>wednesday night, my friend lauren
showed up and we stayed up too late...
today i am recovering and i
took a nice hot bath and painted my toenails a fresh red, so i'm ready for the hot action tomorrow night:
last dance of the year, baby!
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unlike my usual sort of slow existence, lately i am super booked.
i have all kinds of random--though nice! i'm not
complaining!--social things going on, plus school stuff, plue
my weird habit of trying to help people out until i
fucking kill myself.
friday was the last dance of the year and i was on duty. my
friend cati came with me to keep me company--she
actually finds the dances amusing, and so do i, for
about the first half an hour. anyway,
with cati along, the dances are almost like fun. we comment on fashion (all very very bad--lots of tie-on halter tops and thongs coming out
of the back of girl's pants), the dancing (good LORD! they really do the most obscene and ugly
things you can imagine. and, to add insult to injury, they do it all with
absolutely no sense of rhythm), the drama (so many breakups! so many fights! so many heart-felt hugs!), and the dirt
kicker (the dirt kicker is miles, a down's syndrome kid who gets frustrated
when "the ladies", as he likes to call them, won't give him any
play. while i
generally don't favor the mocking of the developmentally disabled, miles is
just so darned obnoxious, that i allow cati to make the occasional amusing observation).
saturday i went over to cati's to help her paint her monstrously huge and
disheveled livingroom and stayed until i had to be rushed home to meet my friends coming in from
anyway, we went to get some grub--obnoxious girl was STARVING and HAD TO EAT
and then ate three bites and complained that what she got was exactly what she
had ordered--and then we went to this cool looking bar for the show and watched
a great first band from texas called egon and then a bad middle band and then our friend's band,
lower forty-eight, which was really great.
the venue, however, totally sucked.
they had rented out the upper floor to a private party of some idiot
frat boy types for a bachelor party or something and they had loud, horrible
music playing at the same time as the
bands...THEY actually came and told my friend's band to turn it down! we were all a little pissed about that...but i was also drunk on vodka gimlets, so i
couldn't really work up a proper indignation.
this was the farewell of one of the band members that i used to know fairly well when he was about 14 but i don't think he has any idea who i
am now, which is sort of sad and sort of funny, too. jose tried to reintroduce
us and ian had in his earplugs, so i guess i still don't know if he
has a clue who i am!
sunday i got up in the
morning and got a haircut from the lovely jeremy and
then had brunch with jeffrey and then started
painting again at cati's--and i
was there painting, almost non-stop, until
this morning i had about the usual amount of trouble
dragging my sorry ass out of bed and then i went to
school for senior check out day--less than a week until summer holiday!
yay!
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i just went to a little wing
ding and met dave eggers and shook his hand and
talked to him...
god, that is so cool!
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it is so nice to think that today was the last day of
school and i will be on vacation, more or less
care-free!, for two months!
<P>i leave for humboldt
tomorrow morning and then i figure i'll come home from there on tuesday-ish. i leave for new york on thursday, which hasn't
really sunk in yet, but i suppose it will when i'm packing and doing laundry in a frenzy on wednesday.
<P>one of the coolest teachers in the english
department at my high school left to move to colorado
today and i'm curious to see what's going to happen
in the department with her gone. a lot
has changed just in the last year, since i've been
gone--now with eryn gone, too, it's going to be a
totally different environment.
<P>between kids graduating and all the teachers leaving for places where
they can actually afford to live on their salaries, any friends i chance to make at school seem destined to leave me
behind. i have
no idea when the hell i'm going to figure out that i should leave, too, but for now i
know i'm staying.
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just back froma loverly visit to arcata...
<P>had a nice time with my mom and bought an AMAZING chair at the st. vincent de paul's for $10--it's an old grandma-style platform rocker
that is upholstered (in great condition, though a little ugly) in big apple
green and tan flowers, but who would even notice that once they look at the
arms of the chair? the arms are
supported but little wooden swans! it is
absolutely the coolest chair on the block and i can't
believe i didn't have my polaroid
with me to take a picture. i wanted so badly to stuff it into my car in some way to
get it back to sf with me, but there was no way it
was fitting into my crappy little fox, so it has to wait until the madre visits and brings it in the station wagon.
<P>the count is now 2 vintage rocking chairs hanging out in my mom's
storage space in arcata, if anyone is keeping score.
<P>i also bought one pair of red dansko open-backed mary janes from north soles and an amazingly cool red vinyl
travel case from the vintage avenger...it was a red kind of day.
<P>anyway, my mom seems to be doing really well now, though she still
hasn't really made any friends. she
seems to like her job and seems to be staying afloat financially--at least i hope so, as i haven't given her
any money in the last two months. it's
such a relief to see her settled in there and she is liking
going to her church and all that business.
she wants me to go in with her one sunday so
she can "show me off" to all the church ladies and i suppose i will do it. it's not that huge a deal for me and it would
make her happy. it's not like i'll spontaneously combust if i
enter a church...is it?
<P>
in other news, i have become obsessed with the idea
of repainting everything in my bedroom--including this adorable pine secretary
desk i saw up in arcata and
am now dying to have--the colors of a garden gnome.
<P> i don't really know why that is.
<P>tomorrow is laundry and packing and then on thursday
i leave town again, this time for
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