Loneliness comes in waves, I find. I miss Johnnies acutely, right now. My grandmother is constantly asking me if the program at Penn is like St. John's, and, really, it's not at all, not even just the non-academic stuff. We live scattered about Philadelphia, we have class two days a week. We do not live in dorms, we don't eat all our meals together. We don't have the same background. My roommates and I don't read anything like the same books (although M.S. has The Hitchhikers' Guide, that is about it). M.N. doesn't like any fantasy other than Harry Potter, we had an argument once about whether The Handmaid's Tale was science fiction (I said it wasn't, she said it was). Neitherone knew who Orpheus was (his name came up in some song), so I explained, as simply as possible. It makes me tired, and lonely. I miss people who have read all my books, except for a few, just enoughthat I know I can do something like say, here, Tracy and Katherine, you will love The Winter Prince, and also know that I will have read enough of their books that they will know that they can say, here, read The Diamond Age or the Fionavar Tapestry, because they know that I will enjoy them. I don't think I could deal with the thought of watching Troy with my roommates--with the Penn people, that would be fun, cause we could make fun of it the whole time, but I'd be forced to well, explain stuff, and if I burst out that there's no way in hell Achilles would ever get in the fucking horse, I'm sure they wouldn't understand. I'm going to go to bed.
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12:46:10 AM,Thursday 10 February 2005
I met a very cute toy poodle on my way home. I was chatting with a nice girl in my program, and she said she just got a puppy. She is going to litter train her puppy, which sounds to me like a great idea for somethign to do with a small dog. I think I will train my puppy when I get a puppy.
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10:01:17 PM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
Wow, I thought I might've killed the Blogbot.
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10:00:26 PM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
I need to leave my apartment, and my roommate. I'm going a little nuts. I'm frustrated by stupid stuff, and I'm taking it out poorly. Some of it's really dumb (she's on the phone, and the phone she's on is my phone. It's the one I bought, and it lives in my room, and it's the one with caller ID. Not that I need the phone right now, it's just that she has mine. I love my phone). Some of it is less dumb--I'm the only one in the house who seems to ever empty the dishwasher. I tried to passive aggressive it and I just didn't empty it today, but when I got home, it was still full, and the sink was still full of dishes, and I wanted to make tortellini.
I vent my frustration oddly, and I'm shitty about chores. I'm shitty about chores because I tend to blow off big stuff to begin with, and there's stuff I do habitually that no one notices. Everytime I do the dishes (and, as no one else ever empties the dishwasher, this happens frequently), I completely clean out the sink. No one else does this. I wash the teapot at least once a day, cause it gets oil over it all the time. I wipe counters. Everytime I wash my face I clean out the sink. I change the dishrag. I run the fucking dishwasher. I don't empty the dishes drying rack, and I think this annoys M.N. M.S. and I were talking about dishes this weekend, and I said that I hate empting the drying rack (Molly and I also had this discussion) and M.S. said that, yeah, she knew, casue M.N. had told her. Personally, I think that if I'm going to empty and load the dishwasher all the time, someone else can empty the drying rack. I don't think the floor needs to be cleaned as often as M.N. does; I think cleaning should happen when it needs to happen, not every week. But, whatever. I'm in a bad mood, and I needed to rant.
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10:00:05 PM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
I went to Starbucks as I do before Latin and tried their new majorly intense hot chocolate drink. I asked the guy about it, before I ordered, and he said it's very good, so I tried it. And I ordered a Black and White cookies, cause I really enjoy them. He gave me a free chantico cookie, cause their designed to go with the chantico drinking chocolate; they're supposed to be 55 cents. Either he was just being a good salesman, or he was going for a tip, Or else it was a cleavage thing. But, the majorly intense chocolate thing was very good. It reminded me of the hot chocolate in The Polar Express (the book; I don't know about the movie; there is something like "and we drank hot chocolate so thick and chocolatey it was like drinking a liquid candy bar"). Probably not better for a caffiene fix than a frappucino or a latte (frappucinos go to my head faster).
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07:18:38 PM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
I wish there were some website where you could put in something like "I'm in Philadelphia, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to get to Annapolis at the end of April. I don't have a car." And then you would press search, and it would figure it all out for you. You know, like Orbitz, or Travelocity, only doing more than just planes, telling you about buses and trains too. It would kick ass. Actually, the best of all possible things would be like the thing Septa does, where you put in the address where you are leaving from and the address of the place you are going and when you want to get there/leave your house, and it tells you exactly what to do.
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10:50:02 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
Hey, Martin, in plain, simple English, do you know how we learned how to translate Sumerian?
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10:20:47 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
Do not get a cell phone with AT&T;, people. They are rude, they charge for bogus things, and it is impossible to get rid of your service. This is your public service message, courtesy of Tori.
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10:02:47 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
Currently, my favourite column of any tablet of Gilgamesh: "Enkidu sat before her...his...good luck...great... ... ... .... Enkidu... ... ... king ..." that is it. That, apparently, makes enough sense to the translator to put it in.
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08:58:58 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
My roommates were discussing giving stuff up for Lent. I tend to hate conversations about people giving stuff up for Lent; it's worse than New Year's Resolutions, cause of the whole religious overtone thing. Stupid religion.
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08:11:12 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
I hate it when people cook with onions. I hate onions. But, in particular, it makes my room smell like onions.
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08:10:01 PM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
I can't figure it out, but somehow in my search for plane tickets to Wisconson, Orbitz decided that I was trying to go to Fergana, Uzbekistan. It said the tickets would be $5000+ which, as they were coach tickets, I couldn't figure out, until I stared long and hard at where it was trying to send me. But, still...I run random searches on plane tickets now and again, I could fly out to visit Katherine or Nate and Rebekah twice for the price of one ticket to Uzbekistan.
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12:49:09 AM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
So, Dave Simpson (who does Ozy and Millie) does a political cartoon called I Drew This, which I read every day, and at the bottom of the page there is I Think This, which is, basically a blog. Today there was why he is depressed. It is a mixture of the political environment and personal stuff. It made me depressed, cause, well, frankly, I'm depressed too, for many of the same reasons.
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09:28:46 PM,Monday 7 February 2005
Hurray for Moss for fixing the blogbot!
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09:24:04 PM,Monday 7 February 2005
Can Boston trade in its recent athletic victories to put Kerry in the White House?
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10:24:31 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005
Philadelphia is going to be miserable if they lose. And they are about to lose.
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09:56:50 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005
Yesterday, we went grocery shopping. In a last moment decision, I went off to the cookie aisle for stupid grocery store cookies. I debated between the Twix and Bix (I don't know if that's how the Brits spell it, and I don't even know what they call them in America, I think it's something dumb like "Cookies and Candy") and reverse Oreos, and chose the reverse Oreos. They are tasty things, the reverse Oreos. Also, at the last minute, while I was in the cookie aisle, I turned around, and there was tea. Looking at tea in stores is something I'm not supposed to do, cause as much as I like to drink tea, I like to collect it even more, and buy tea far more frequently than I could possibly drink it. Anyway, Celestial Seasonings has new "chai"-type teas (I don't know how new they are, I haven't bought tea bags in ages) and I debated between the white tea honey and vanilla "chai" and the black tea chocolate caramel "chai" and decided to go with the chocolate caramel one, because I honestly have no idea if I like white tea or not (I don't do green, red is okay, but it's not actually tea, cause it doens't come from a tea plant). It's really yummy, anyway, the Celestial Seasonings Chocolate Caramel tea. It's not too sweet, and has the proper bite of anise and cardomom and cinnamon and pepper as well as the chocolate-y caramel-y taste. Even if the chocolate does come from carob.
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09:13:25 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005
The part about gmail making Netscape freeze that is particularly disconcerting is that it doesn't necessarily happen while I'm in gmail. In fact, it only does that when I'm trying to write an email, especially if it's a response, and it doesn't always do it. But, almost always, a couple minutes after I have signed out of gmail and am off looking at something else in Netscape, Netscape freezes and I have to force quit. The same happens with Mozilla; I have a slightly higher chance of being able to write a complete email in Mozilla than Netscape, but a higher chance of Mozilla freezing before I get to the writing email point. It doesn't matter what I go on to look at after doing the gmail thing, it will crash it. This is further reason why Chris needs go to get himself a power supply for his G4 and give me the Cube.
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05:03:43 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005
I spilled green ink and a lot of it wound up on my foot. I feel like a leper or something.
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04:57:41 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005
They have been lighting the skyscrapers up with green for the past like two weeks. Usually, they are white, unless they decide to do something else. They were pink throughout October, for Breast Cancer Awareness, and they were red white and blue around election time. But, green, right, in the middle of January through the beginning of February. I didn't get it. And then, last night, I was like, oh, duh, green is Eagles.
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01:23:39 PM,Sunday 6 February 2005