xie is trying to sleep. i am typing slowly and with great care, using two fingers rather than my customary solo peck-peck-peck. must minimize keyboard noise.
so - not even cliff notes, just the recent headlines of my life:
xie coming here rocks. it's so nice to be able to hang out...
friday we got dumplings and cold sesame noodles from marco and luca's, and admired their new digs. rode the trolley. went home and watched run lola run -me for the second time, her for the first. good movie, that.
saturday we got together with ariel and k. and dyed hair more. xie got hot pink streaks (turned out as more of a subtle hot pink highlighted effect, but it looks realy cool) and ariel gave her hair (and body, heh) a kind of purple sheen, with streaks of higher-intensity. am really curious to see how it looks dry. even k., who's trying not to dye her hair till after a summer wedding she's going to attend, bleached some of her tips. she'll be getting hot pink dye later, and as a lot of her tips are already purple (the result of a haircut that took off the longer purpleness) i think it'll look really cool. it does even now, just with the bleached bits. as for me, well, my hair is now bright, bright purple. i like it, though i wish it was summer, when i could be entirely carefree about such a thing. i fear that tomorrow, upon my arrival home, there will be a great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, manifested in asudden chilling of the home environment. we'll see, though... really, my greater concern is that when i go back to work next monday my supervisor will lower his eyes and busy himself with crossing my name off documents. is not a particularly fun way for people to act.
the egyptians said that the key to getting to the happy places of the afterlife was to have aheart that weighed lighter than a feather... i've always wondered if they lived accordingly, or if the concept meant something far different to them than it does to us today...
at any rate, my salvation (in these terms) has always been greatly under question. it does seem an odd admonition, though, a strange strictness to try and hold oneself to, as when somebody yells at you to relax.
at any rate, on monday i shall wear a hat and hope for the best, as anyone must.
and i've entirely abandoned my so-short headline format - i've never been able to keep it short.
saturday night went out with fatespawn and xie (and friends who joined us later) - ate at marco and luca's again (and they gave us three special desserts free, which shows that they like us a lot and we're special - we were surprised and delighted
) . went to the old theater and watched "lost in translation," and afterwards got ben & jerry's at harris teeter (buy one get one free! - got vanilla heath bar and phish food(?)) and hung out for awhile afterwards.
sunday saw fatespawn off and went to littlejohn's (so much eating out in such a short span of time...) and then xie went with me to brooks where i worked on charcoal drawings until my arm was aching and the sun had nearly gone down. then drove out to harris teeter again to get more ice cream (caramel sutra and phish food - i'm still searching for concession obsession! i miss that flavor so!) and browsed about the bookstore and came back and ate an ice cream dinner while watching "almost famous" on my roommate's tv. another excellent movie. was still hungry afterwards (there's still ice cream left, don't be silly) and so nabbed oatmeal from fatespawn's room and that was nice, to fill my stomach with something warm and somewhat nutritious.
i miss fatespawn. i'm going to miss him the whole time i'm home, but i can take comfort in the fact that it's just because i've been horribly spoiled, living so close to him all this time, and that in a week's time i'll return to being horribly spoiled once more. is lovely. i miss you.
tomorrow also am turning in my job application, bright and early. i hope hope hope i get this job. i hope hope hope that purple is not a controversy that would be seen to reflect poorly on darden. i hope hope hope that my programming skills (which i fear i may downplay too much, because of my non-e-skooler-based feelings of inadequacy) are considered sufficient. and i hope hope hope that if i don't get the job that my internship still goes well. i don't want to feel sad for 10 hours a week. this could be amazingly, incredibly cool if it works out. if not, i'll have to comfort myself with the thought that i'm gonna go off and be amazingly, incredibly cool someplace else. i want to be amazingly cool with them. hope!
don't remember if i mentioned or not, but i talked with my brother on the phone on saturday for at least 45 minutes about weight-lifting. apparently we've got a nice, solid common interest now. was amusing. also, i do lat pull-downs with 100 pound weights now... is not so very far to go. perhaps i'll still be able to make my goal of being able to do a pull-up - if not by the end of this school year then at least by the end of this summer. and after that i'm going after handstands, all the way.
i need to go to bed now, both for xie's sake and my own. good night. if you have extra luck, send a little my way, as it seems i could use a bit for all maner of things...
ah, and a postscript: i look forward greatly to tuesday, when xie and i will go to revelations. have not been goth dancing in such a long time, and it'll be almost a sort of homecoming to see the drag queen at the door again. how i got to like that place in so short a time, i do not know, and it isn't as though we've had much chance to get to know the people, but nevertheles, it was my winter sanity and salvation and i'm looking forwards to being there again.
goodnight to everybody, and especially fatespawn.
so - not even cliff notes, just the recent headlines of my life:
xie coming here rocks. it's so nice to be able to hang out...
friday we got dumplings and cold sesame noodles from marco and luca's, and admired their new digs. rode the trolley. went home and watched run lola run -me for the second time, her for the first. good movie, that.
saturday we got together with ariel and k. and dyed hair more. xie got hot pink streaks (turned out as more of a subtle hot pink highlighted effect, but it looks realy cool) and ariel gave her hair (and body, heh) a kind of purple sheen, with streaks of higher-intensity. am really curious to see how it looks dry. even k., who's trying not to dye her hair till after a summer wedding she's going to attend, bleached some of her tips. she'll be getting hot pink dye later, and as a lot of her tips are already purple (the result of a haircut that took off the longer purpleness) i think it'll look really cool. it does even now, just with the bleached bits. as for me, well, my hair is now bright, bright purple. i like it, though i wish it was summer, when i could be entirely carefree about such a thing. i fear that tomorrow, upon my arrival home, there will be a great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, manifested in asudden chilling of the home environment. we'll see, though... really, my greater concern is that when i go back to work next monday my supervisor will lower his eyes and busy himself with crossing my name off documents. is not a particularly fun way for people to act.
the egyptians said that the key to getting to the happy places of the afterlife was to have aheart that weighed lighter than a feather... i've always wondered if they lived accordingly, or if the concept meant something far different to them than it does to us today...
at any rate, my salvation (in these terms) has always been greatly under question. it does seem an odd admonition, though, a strange strictness to try and hold oneself to, as when somebody yells at you to relax.
at any rate, on monday i shall wear a hat and hope for the best, as anyone must.
and i've entirely abandoned my so-short headline format - i've never been able to keep it short.
saturday night went out with fatespawn and xie (and friends who joined us later) - ate at marco and luca's again (and they gave us three special desserts free, which shows that they like us a lot and we're special - we were surprised and delighted
) . went to the old theater and watched "lost in translation," and afterwards got ben & jerry's at harris teeter (buy one get one free! - got vanilla heath bar and phish food(?)) and hung out for awhile afterwards.
sunday saw fatespawn off and went to littlejohn's (so much eating out in such a short span of time...) and then xie went with me to brooks where i worked on charcoal drawings until my arm was aching and the sun had nearly gone down. then drove out to harris teeter again to get more ice cream (caramel sutra and phish food - i'm still searching for concession obsession! i miss that flavor so!) and browsed about the bookstore and came back and ate an ice cream dinner while watching "almost famous" on my roommate's tv. another excellent movie. was still hungry afterwards (there's still ice cream left, don't be silly) and so nabbed oatmeal from fatespawn's room and that was nice, to fill my stomach with something warm and somewhat nutritious.
i miss fatespawn. i'm going to miss him the whole time i'm home, but i can take comfort in the fact that it's just because i've been horribly spoiled, living so close to him all this time, and that in a week's time i'll return to being horribly spoiled once more. is lovely. i miss you.
tomorrow also am turning in my job application, bright and early. i hope hope hope i get this job. i hope hope hope that purple is not a controversy that would be seen to reflect poorly on darden. i hope hope hope that my programming skills (which i fear i may downplay too much, because of my non-e-skooler-based feelings of inadequacy) are considered sufficient. and i hope hope hope that if i don't get the job that my internship still goes well. i don't want to feel sad for 10 hours a week. this could be amazingly, incredibly cool if it works out. if not, i'll have to comfort myself with the thought that i'm gonna go off and be amazingly, incredibly cool someplace else. i want to be amazingly cool with them. hope!
don't remember if i mentioned or not, but i talked with my brother on the phone on saturday for at least 45 minutes about weight-lifting. apparently we've got a nice, solid common interest now. was amusing. also, i do lat pull-downs with 100 pound weights now... is not so very far to go. perhaps i'll still be able to make my goal of being able to do a pull-up - if not by the end of this school year then at least by the end of this summer. and after that i'm going after handstands, all the way.
i need to go to bed now, both for xie's sake and my own. good night. if you have extra luck, send a little my way, as it seems i could use a bit for all maner of things...
ah, and a postscript: i look forward greatly to tuesday, when xie and i will go to revelations. have not been goth dancing in such a long time, and it'll be almost a sort of homecoming to see the drag queen at the door again. how i got to like that place in so short a time, i do not know, and it isn't as though we've had much chance to get to know the people, but nevertheles, it was my winter sanity and salvation and i'm looking forwards to being there again.
goodnight to everybody, and especially fatespawn.