There was a little girl running around Borders last night, in jeans and a black robe, who looked so much like Ginny Weasly from the movie (although her hair wasn't quite as red), that it was alarming. Everytime she ran by, she looked more and more like the girl from the movie. I got there after they were finished with activities, and I stood in line, with Masquerade which I picked up in the science fiction section, because I figured, hey, if I can't amuse myself in a bookstore for an hour, I'm a bad Johnny, and I haven't seen my copy of Masquerade in years. And I found myself standing in line, in the music section, and there was a magazine with a big article about Ani. I had stopped following Ani's career when I didn't like the yellow disc in that two disc set that came out a few years ago, it was too...hip hop-y for me, but the other day I was driving along, and she was being interviewed on the radio, and played some songs by herself, cause she and her band split, and I was like, right, I do like this woman, and so I started reading the magazine. Which led to talking with the nice nerdy 19 year olds standing right behind me. And then I got my book (one for me, and one for Connor) and I was happy happy. It was nice to be happy happy. When I'd left work, "Hannibal" by Dan Bern started playing on my CD player, and that really seemed like the music that fit my mood. I liked the bitter anger, and I was feeling exhausted and frustrated, and I hate my job (I like the people, but I hate the job), and then I was preparing for a potluck, and I really didn't want to cook, and then I couldn't find the cake pans, and I sat on my floor (okay, I was sitting on the floor cause the cake pans are really low to the ground in the cabinet, when they're there) and nearly cried, and considered not going, and considered taking vodka instead of food, and then I thought, hell, I'll make some other sort of dessert, that doesn't involve actual cooking. And I made up this thing with cream cheese and sugar and a bit of triple sec for flavoring and lady fingers and fresh strawberries and blueberries and raspberries and blackberries and canned mandarin oranges, and everyone loved it, including me, and I cheered up incredibly, and Borders was a blast. Apparently, that evening, Connor went off to Barnes and Noble to pick up his book, and they couldn't find my name (I'd reserved two books in my name), and they told him I probably did it at Borders, but he bought one there anyway. He then gave it to his friend Taylor, who gave him money for it, and then he payed me back. I've been curled up in Harry Potter land, remembering how much I love Sirius, all happy. Work sucked, but I made $75 cash. Then I had to wait and wait for there to be silverware, and when they finally gave me silverware I nearly shrieked "silverware!" and threw out my arms. I bet they'd never seen someone act so excited about silverware, but silverware meant "Harry Potter" to me, and so...Then I got home, and the hottub was just extremely appealing, because I thought my feet might fall off. And then my stepdad and I went out for Indian food. Yum. Except it had peppers in it, and they didn't sit well on my stomach. And now I am home, and I am talking to Moira. And in general, I am feeling happy and good.
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09:15:15 PM,Saturday 21 June 2003
I promised Connor I would make him meringues before he leaves the country. When I went to the grocery store earlier this week, I bought this stuff that is 100% pure egg whites, for making meringues. But you can't make the damn things when it's humid. I thought maybe it was clearing up when I bought them, and then it started raining again. I'm all frustrated.
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08:27:25 AM,Thursday 19 June 2003
Yesterday, I went back to New York to pick up Zeb and Chris from the airport. I thought their plane got in at 1:40, and made plans to have lunch with my friend Lyndsay beforehand. I found out later that their plane actually got in at 3:40, but Lyndsay is doing a summer session at Pratt and had a class, so I didn't chage my plans with her. I sat at the airport for four hours. I wandered around and looked at the shops they had upstairs (none of them were interesting). And I read The Castle in the Air which is the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. I took a nap at the airport, sitting indian style in an uncomfortable chair, with my backpack in my lap. I drank orange juice and ate a not very good croissant from the kiosk claming to be Au Bon Pain (the oj was very good). Then they showed up, and off we went. Zeb read The HitchHikers' Guide to the Galaxy for the first time, and bought a copy of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe while they were in England, which he enjoyed, he apparently was readinng The Color of Magic on the way home. He's really enjoying Douglas Adams (and Rincewind, as far as I know), so I lent him my big black HitchHikers. He said that he thought the two Hitchhikers books he'd read were probably the only books he'd finished since high school, then he rememered that he read The Hobbit. I thought all in all that this was rather sad. I said "I finish like three books a week. I finished a book at the airport." I have to go, get dressed, go to work.
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08:24:55 AM,Thursday 19 June 2003
So, I was thinking about Harry Potter. And okay, so if you're from a wizard family, and you get a letter saying "come to Hogwarts" that's all cool. But say you're from a Muggle family, and you get the same letter. Why in the world would you possibly take it seriously?
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12:48:24 AM,Wednesday 18 June 2003
Ms. Rowling had better be working on that sixth book already, because people (including myself) will be very impatient for it in about a week.
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12:47:10 AM,Wednesday 18 June 2003
Now, to start off with, I liked "Amends" when I first saw it earlier this year. I like it even more now, after watching them fuck up horribly with the same villain. "Conversations With Dead People" did the First the closest to the way it was done in the Third Season, and I frankly found both of those far more convincing than anything else they did with it. (Unless Giles had been killed, and ran around as the First for a while, or if they'd done more with that Potential who was really the First, but they didn't.) I just watched "Earshot" and it makes me all sad to think that the poor depressed suicidal nerd would turn into one of Warren's boys, or that they didn't kill Andrew and have Jonathan running around with them for the rest of the season. Fucking Andrew. I wanted him to die.
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10:30:19 PM,Sunday 15 June 2003
I was totally going to go see Much Ado tonight, but now I'd rather stay home and lie on my couch and finish Season 3. Why didn't they just smash Anya's power center in Season 7? Does anyone understand? (I just watched Dopplegangland.)
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06:40:04 PM,Sunday 15 June 2003
It's sad. My brother goes away for the weekend, leaving me home all alone, and besides being all excited about the massive Buffy-fest I'll be having while I'm not working (and possibly seeing Much Ado weather permitting), the thing I am particularly excited about is that I can leave AIM up and running the entire time he's away, and it won't matter. And I sit here now, trying to find a good Sandman sleep quote, like one of the plethora that sit on my computer, to use as an away message.
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01:35:43 AM,Saturday 14 June 2003
So, today my Buffy showed up and this makes me all happy.
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09:03:36 PM,Friday 13 June 2003
We got coupons for free food from Giant, if you used your Bonus Card. This is a stretch of the word food--we could get free Coke, Turkey Hill Ice Cream and Orange Juice. So today I went off to Giant to get these things, but they were sold out of the Orange Juice that was on sale, and I was all sad. But I still got coke, and cherry ice cream. And then Geum (our stepgrandmother) took Connor and me out for pizza, which was great, because, quite frankly, it wasn't spaghetti. Today we both decided we were completely sick of spaghetti, or pasta in any form, and Connor ate a bunch of salad, and I made smoothie and while I was trying to find canned pineapple to put in the smoothie, I found polenta. Polenta would be terrible in a smoothie, but next to a smoothie, all baked and crunchy, it was the best thing ever.
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08:00:54 PM,Thursday 12 June 2003
I want to go the grocery store and buy vegetables and fake meat products. I suppose I could spend my own money, but I also know that these are things my parents would buy. Connor called the bank to find out where the hell the credit card is, and they said we should expect it 7-10 after they shipped it, which was Saturday.
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03:15:46 PM,Thursday 12 June 2003
I spent a good deal of time last night trying to figure out how to cool my room down. My ceiling fan seems to be doing next to nothing. I was going to put a screen in, but then I realized that the problem is almost more the humidity than the heat. I'm getting summer-miserable.
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03:11:43 PM,Thursday 12 June 2003
My camera showed up today. God, it eats batteries quickly.
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03:09:45 PM,Thursday 12 June 2003
My brother and I have been waiting impatiently for our parents' credit card to show up so we can buy groceries. They left us cash, but he, being foolish and thinking the card would show up sooner than it has (as it isn't here) went out and bought a new ink cartridge with the bit of their cash that we hadn't spent on the campout and pizza from Jamie's bribe.
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12:21:52 AM,Thursday 12 June 2003
This computer is too new and fast and good and whatnot to play King's Quest V on, though. I've been wanting to play that game for ages, but it doesn't seem to run on any computers anymore.
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07:37:32 PM,Wednesday 11 June 2003
My brother recently downloaded Stronghold (by recently, read when we woke up this morning, it was downloaded) and spent most of his afternoon conquering England in 1066. I tried to play, got frustrated at my inability to grow hops or make cheese, and downloaded Caesar 3, which allowed me to have all sorts of fun making two Roman provinces.
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07:33:06 PM,Wednesday 11 June 2003
Today is suposed to be sunny. We haven't seen much sun here. And then were are going to get five days of rain. Again. The farmers are distressed, cause their stuff is getting saturated, I think, as no one here grows rice. I think I'm going to go upstairs and watch Family Guy.
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02:24:25 PM,Tuesday 10 June 2003
My Season 3 DVDs are shipped! Yay! Only some time, probably about week, until I get my Faith and my Mayor and Oz and...
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12:28:11 PM,Tuesday 10 June 2003
My passport showed up in today's mail. I wasn't expecting it for another few weeks. I was in, fact, expecting to run aroud in a blind panic two days before I left because I had no passport yet.
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12:19:41 PM,Tuesday 10 June 2003
So, I recently reread both Ya-Ya books, and so I went out and rented the DVD of the movie. I hadn't like the movie much when I saw it last summer, because they left out so much, and they made characters I'd really liked (Genevieve and Jack) into practically nothing. But on the DVD there were tons of deleted scenes, including the whole bit in the Catholic boarding school, and it made me feel generally better about the movie. I'm curious as to why they cut that part in particular out, as I thought it was really important.
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01:47:19 AM,Tuesday 10 June 2003