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| Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | | 10:46 pm |
It's funny... Now that I'm working with computers and the internet most of the day, I don't have much desire to check email, go on AIM, check Facebook and myspace and Gaia, and all the other internet hangouts where my virtual and sometimes real friends are located. I feel like I'm cutting my self off from everybody. I wonder if any of them have noticed... | | 10:12 pm |
A dillema
Sadness. I missed Otakon last year, and I was looking to go this year, without the need for a wheelchair. And LUCK! I was invited to join a room in the Days Inn, the closest and cheapest hotel! ...but... I have a deadline at the computer store I'm working at. This Friday. It's highly unlikely I'll make it, but I should at least try. So no Thursday Night adventures, no Friday day wanders. I have a room at the Days Inn. The best place to stay. But I may not be able to take advantage of it. And if I stay home, I'm still responsible for my share. There are two possible escapes from this, either a friend stays in my place and pays my share (AND I reimburse her) Or other friends who need a place to stay so they'll get the staff repayments. I'm currently trying to get one side to talk to the other. And then, as I've also mentioned earlier, my brother and his family have returned from Israel to spend the summer here. I'm eager and excited to see my nephews and nieces, and the one brief time I saw them was not nearly enough.. Additionally, my nephew Aryah (My Sister Penina's second son) has arrived too, and is partially my responsibility. And so, my parents have planned a big family get together, with lots of relatives - for this Shabbos, same as Otakon. And only told me last week, once everything was planned and the more distant people invited. SO.... Many family members I only see rarely, or convention friends and randomness that I only experience rarely? And my aunt and uncle and their children and their grandchildren will be there Saturday night. Everyone except I, who longs to be swimming in a sweaty sea of Otaku this weekend. But family pressure is strong and not safely resisted. And Job pressure and the lure of bonus money is enticing. Which should I choose? | | Monday, July 13th, 2009 | | 11:14 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 3:07 pm |
More rain
It's raining again. Oh well. 3 full days of sunlight was a nice change. | | Monday, July 6th, 2009 | | 10:47 pm |
Two bad Omens?
A half hour ago, there was a huge *THUMP* outside that sent me and most of the residents in a two block area running outside. There's more then 2 dozen emergency vehicles, most of them ambulances, with their sirens blazing and everyone running back and forth like mad. ( what happened? ) | | 6:55 pm |
Dead kittens and other things
One of the cute kittens that frolic outside my apartment lies dead in front of the porch next door. It looks so sad and still. I wonder what killed it. Meanwhile, two others of his liter flank me, frolicking in the bushes. That grey one is staring at me again. Current Mood:  melancholyCurrent Music: buzzing of honeybees and passerbyes | | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 7:32 pm |
The backyard is flooding. I'm pretty sure it's rained well past 40 days and 40 nights now. | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 4:12 pm |
What to do in a Recession
Yesterday, I did in-store inventory at a computer shop while dodging customers and dust. Today, I repiped a cast iron bathroom sink, mowed the lawn, and disposed of a dead cat. It really makes me appreciate the computer store work. Oddly enough, I got nearly as dirty working in the shop. Time for a long shower. | | Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | | 11:48 am |
Who will stop the rain?
It's the middle of June! Isn't time for the April showers to end?? And maybe, just maybe, a bit of warmth would be appreciated too. | | Thursday, June 11th, 2009 | | 11:08 pm |
MANicure
Got a haircut yesterday, to look all pretty for Anime NEXT. The barber cut my hair much shorter then normal. It looks... different. I feel even balder then usual. At the same time, it does seem to make me look tougher. (Or is that just my imagination?) But my stubble looks out of place all of the sudden. I'm going to have to go fully clean shaven and see how I look with it. So I shaved, and it doesn't look that bad, other then the bloody nicks and bumps that come from not having a close shave in months. Meanwhile, with my hair so short already, I'm thinking I might as well go all the way and shave my head bald. I've wanted to see how that would look on me for a while now, and while I doubt it'll look that good, it'll grow back to it's new current length pretty quickly. A few months ago, the parlor I get my haircuts in expanded, and along with the enlarged space and additional hairstylists came a manicurist. My mother and certain lady friends have from time to time encouraged me to get a manicure, so I resolved to give it a try. She was absent at the time of my last few haircuts, but today she was there. It was a interesting experience. When I was a child, I hated having my nails cut. My fingertips always felt very weird in a very unpleasant way afterward. I hated the feeling so much I started carefully biting my nails so they'd never get long enough to need to be cut. (It's amazing what adults don't notice.) It eventually developed into a habit that I didn't break until college. (But that's another story.) I never learned more of nail care then how to file, and to use a clipper rather then siccsors and not to cut to it to short, to minimize the weird feeling. (And you can't scratch with short nails.) But my nails, due to chewing abuse and athlete foot and medication side effects and incompetent care, didn't look as good as they could. Hence, a manicure. Now my nails look a lot better, my cuticles are are glossy, and my hands smell pleasent from the nail softener. But my fingertips feel all weird... Current Music: The Weavers - On top of Old Smokey | | 1:51 am |
Pizza guy: What's your first name for this order? Me: Israel Pizza guy: Oh. You drunk again? Me: ....Wrong Israel. | | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | | 4:56 pm |
violets and more violets
All of the sudden, there are violets everywhere. They even outnumber the dandelions. It's very nice, the little splashes of purple help break up the sea of green. I'm not sure why this is. It could be that I'm just specifically noticing them for the first time, after they were specifically pointed out to me in Boston. It could be that there are more flowers in the neighborhood then there used to be, probably thanks to the introduction of Honey Bees around here. It could be an effect of the constant rain we've been having. (It's rained pretty much every day since I've returned, with the blessed exception of Saturday.) Or someone might have just been scattering seeds around randomly. Or it could just be my block... | | Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | | 1:37 pm |
No Sakura Mitsuda for me...
My temperature last week, while I was really feeling sick: 98.6°. Yesterday, as I started feeling somewhat better: 97.2°. Today: 96.8°. I'm improving, though I'm still coughing constantly and my right eye is getting puffed up. I haven't taken my temperature in years and years. When I was a kid, I got sick a lot, and my parents seemed to base their decision on if I should be sent to school entirely on if I had a fever (i.e. over 100°). Once I got to college, I could make that decision myself, and based it on how healthy I felt, and as such stopped bothering to take my temperature. (I also started getting sick much less - probably due to a combination of far less stress and misery along with not having to wake up at 6AM every single morning.) I do remember noticing when I was young that I never ever had a temp of 98.6°... | | Friday, May 1st, 2009 | | 5:35 pm |
blarg
Tried to be productive today. Dosed up on anti-histamines and went out. Wound up throwing up twice and spending the next few hours in bed. Think I'll take it easy this weekend. Throat feeling better, but still coughing and feeling crappy. No fever, though, no reason to worry about flu. I love spring, except for the pollen. | | Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
Sick?
I've been feeling increasingly lousy all day. Sore throat, muscle aches, coughing, runny nose, general malaise. It's consistent with the usual crapiness I feel every spring when the temperature changes and pollen floods the air. I don't have a fever, so there's no reason to get paranoid and think I have swine flu, but I'm going to stay in tonight and try go to bed early just to be on the safe side. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xlilliex, sorry that I'm going to miss the last Glassdoll show tonight. Looks like I'm 0 for everything with your band. I hope you go out with a bang. Current Music: none, sadly | | 5:14 pm |
Tie the Yellow Ribbon pt. 2
In other news, for those who do not yet know, my brother and his entire battalion have returned safely from Iraq. | | Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | | 1:53 pm |
Home again after two weeks and several delays. Looks like I came back just in time for a flu endemic. The school that had the outbreak is just a few miles from my house. Spring apparently comes a bit earlier here then Boston, as everything's well into bloom. The front lawns on my block look lovely, with wild flowers sprouting everywhere. (And I can now recognize violets!) Sadly, our front lawn still has huge patches of dirt with nothing growing. And the weather is lovely! ETA: At Physical Therapy right now. PT mentioned that I looked skinnier, so I weighed myself - I've dropped almost 10 lbs. over my vacation. I've been eating, but I have been getting full much faster. (Even when not eating Tibetan food.) All the walking probably had something to do with it, too. Lets see if I can keep it off all summer... ETA2: While I was out all afternoon, whoever it is the Co-Op hires to do the gardening came by, mowed away all the pretty flowers, and didn't even bother to put down any grass seeds. Bastards. | | Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | | 6:59 pm |
| | Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | | 3:47 pm |
I never would have expected...
The SuperWalmart up here has unsurprisingly cheap sushi. But it's surprisingly, amazingly good. It's been a large part of my diet for this visit. | | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | | 4:38 pm |
In very Northern Baltimore all week, with limited internet access. Lots of lovely outdoors around here, but sadly it's been raining all week and shows no sign of letting up... |
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