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Hmmm... I've been awake for a little while. Haven't eaten or accomplished anything yet. I'm sitting here talking to Ragdoll and reading Salon. My daily routine! heh. I talked to V earlier and she agreed that I should go to the 24-hour supermarket and buy Cheerios. But I can probably hold out until 7 or 8 AM. I'm all crampy, too, and headachy and dehydrated and hungry and...

I finished Norwegian Wood. It was good, but pretty depressing, and the end was kind of questionable. Basically it's about a guy who falls in love with a schizophrenic girl, who had been the girlfriend of his best friend in high school, who had killed himself before graduation. As the girl is hospitalised, he meets another girl who is cool and sane. It's the basic story of his situation and his love for the crazy girl and his attraction to the cool girl. I'd recommend it, but I don't think it's ever going to become one of my favorite books, and I don't think it is Murakami's best work, even though it is the most popular of his books in Japan. I have had South of the Border, West of the Sun for a few months without reading it, and now I am very interested in reading it because it seems like a similar story, only from the POV of an older man after meeting up with his childhood love again, rather than as a story taking place when all the characters are around 20 in the late 1960s. (I might add that the 1960s setting didn't have much effect on the novel... it was a story that I think could have been set more recently, with very few changes in detail.)

I guess I am going to get up and finish my collages which were due a few weeks ago and which I need to turn in tomorrow. It might also be good if I eat. I think that's what I'll be up to for the next few hours.

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oh yeah... I wanted to mention some of the tasty treats wot I downloaded today:

- Current 93 - Crowleymass (extended)
- Current 93 w/ Bjork - Falling
- Shona Laing - Glad I'm Not A Kennedy
- Meryn Cadell - The Sweater
- several versions of Girl From Ipanema
- several Chet Baker tunes
- The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
and finally
- Save Ferris - Christmas Wrapping

Now, I love The Waitresses' original version of Christmas Wrapping, and I thought Save Ferris's version was going to be a straight cover. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to have completely different lyrics! It's great, it's about a Jewish girl who's had it up to "here" with Christmas. Check it out if you get the chance. "If I eat one more latke, my toukas is gonna explode!"

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Just got home.

I am very bad... I skipped class today. It was supposed to be my first time back in Design, and I didn't go.

There was some reasoning though... there was something that I absolutely *had* to do today, and I suspected that I might be too tired after class. Also, when I got to the point where I had to turn onto the road my school is on, I looked down in that direction and the sky was completely black. It was relatively clear in the other direction, and I didn't feel like dealing with the kind of rain I was sure I'd encounter in the last ten minutes of the drive.

So I drove in the other direction and eventually ended up at the mall, where I indulged in some intense self-love. (You see, if learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all, I try to buy my own affection. It usually works, as long as I don't overdo it.) I went to Penney's and got a cute pair of atomic-design flannel PJs, a long-sleeved orange Powerpuff shirt that says "SUGAR SPICE and everything nice" and is all glittery, a pair of slipper socks with a happy star on them and glittery stars for tread, and a glittery "Josie and the Pussycats American Tour" tshirt. I got two books for the ones I was taking back, and successfully resisted the new hardcover Michael Chabon and Kazuo Ishiguro books. & I lost my debit card, which means I am going to give the bookstore tonight to find it, and if they don't, I'm going to cancel it tomorrow morning.

(also, my package came from Origins... scrubby things. I just heart credit cards.)

Then I went to the grocery store and bought a conspicuously bizarre assortment of food: a couple of Luna Bars in assorted flavors, the largest box of Cheerios they sell, a box of Ritz whole wheat, a container of cut fruit, and (glory glory hallelujah) a (6?8?)pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade. Yes, kids, it has made its way to Florida. Me + Mike = trouble. As I was checking out I started laughing because I realised that I looked like a drunk with the munchies.

Now I am just talking to Ragdoll on AIM and wishing that my cramps weren't this bad. The rain hasn't stopped. I'm tired and headachy. A certain young man owes me email and I am beginning to get pouty and miss him, but longdistance relationships suck & I don't want to be in one, so maybe it is better if we pay less attention to each other rather than more.

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ow.

I don't know if this is a hormone thing or what, but I feel like I am relapsing into my ear infection etc. My throat hurts again and I am all achy. Plus, my belly aches.

Just watched Buffy and talked to H. for a second. Now I think I am going to drink some water and go to sleep.