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Been awake for quite a while (3 hours or so). A relative called to say that her grandmother (not related to me, but from the opposite side of the family) died today - well, was taken off life support, anyways, I don't know whether she has actually died yet or will just be a - I don't like the term vegetable for a nonresponsive person, but I can't think of another term. I feel really bad for S. (she's my uncle's wife but they're newlyweds and she's only like 3 years older than me).

Nobody replied to the writing thing I posted. :( I think I do need to revise it some more... but the whole point of it was to focus on something I would not normally focus on, be a little "in-your-face", and then slowly change the tone to one of transcendence. It was written, actually, as a feminist essay for a zine, but this is the first time anyone but Ragdoll, Autumn, and Kitty has seen it.

Got slightly more harrassment from the woman who has been harrassing me, but it seems to be tapering off. Autumn defended me to her again. My friends are pretty protective of me... it's sweet, it's cool, it's a nice feeling.

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I watched the end of Double Jeopardy (Hollywood crap, but more entertaining than I expected), and all of Stuart Little. I didn't care for it - most of the movie was kind of dumb, and I didn't like the voices that the cats had or believe for one second that those gorgeous trained purebred-looking things with the perfect markings were "alley cats". On the other hand, I loved the phrase "they perished in a tragic creamed-mushroom soup incident" (it was probably "died" and "accident", but my memory is an embroiderer), and I liked the tarty little female mouse with her "leopard" print clothes and her little mouse lips and eyelashes. She was cool.

Still reading All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe - there are some problems with the book which I'll detail later, but otherwise it's unsettling and a decent page-turner mystery (not a thriller at all, though - I haven't yet had the feeling that the detective is in any danger). All I can say is that it makes me want to pay off my credit card, never be in debt again, and become a privacy freak. *shudder* (It's about a woman who has assumed the identity of another woman, which is not the easiest thing to do in Japan.)

I just got out of the shower. I... smelled. I was horrified - it's not like I don't shower enough! But now everything is better and I exude the "lily-fresh and sailor-ready" fragrance of Dirty Girl Body Wash. I think after this I am going to go to bed and read until I fall asleep, or else get dressed, go out for breakfast, and then come home and read until I fall asleep. *snoooze*

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hmmm... last entry was a survey, friends-only.

I slept for more than 12 hours, from around 8AM to after 8PM. Strange dreams, from which I should not be unsettled, but was. They felt so real.

Woke up feeling a little worse than usual, to the B-cat sitting by my head going "Brr! rrr! rrr!" - which is his way of being a feline alarm clock. It turns out that my mother had slept most of the afternoon & forgotten to feed them. I fed them, got some tea, watched The X-Files, and here I am. I haven't really decided how to spend the rest of the evening - I could read something new, or work on a project, or work on getting the scanner set up so that I can scan some of the things I have been needing to scan. I'll probably end up doing a combination of those things... oh, and I'll probably finally get around to making that evil pea soup!