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Went out for dinner tonight. Nobody felt like seeing a movie, nobody felt up to grocery shopping or hitting the laundromat. So we went to Ruby Tuesday, split a dish of potato skins, and each had soup & salad bar. I had a large spinach salad, which took care of my hungry feeling. When I get hungry again, I'm going to eat an apple and a bowl of oatmeal.

Exchanged a book that wasn't doing me much good for The Elegant Universe, which is sort of a state-of-astrophysics book. Once every year or so I do actually purchase a book from the science/math section. Also picked up the new Real Simple, one of the few magazines I buy anymore.

Cats are very zoomy tonight.

Months ago, the day I left to go to Boston, I fell in the driveway & twisted my ankle. It got better to a certain point, then I stepped on something the wrong way, and it started hurting again. When I got home for good, I talked to my doctor about it. I had pulled a muscle, but was told that if I wore an Ace bandage on my foot and ankle for as long as it took to feel better, I'd be fine. I did and it did - except now, it pops a lot, sometimes as often as 4 times in an hour, sometimes only every few days. & I've been limping on it more since I started going for long walks. Weird. I think it may be time to put the Ace back on it.

Bleah. Sometimes I feel like my body is just coming apart at the seams. It's so frustrating.

We listened to the new(ish) Poe cd, Haunted, in the car tonight... I think I liked it better on the way home last night. Has a couple of good songs, though, I suppose. My mom thinks she sounds like Garbage and I think that's the intended effect. But whatever. It's OK.

Time to go finish The Wooden Sea now.

not even tired yet...

I haven't read anything at all since my last entry. I have been downloading songs (got "Fish Heads" and "Three Drunk Newts", both by Barnes & Barnes!) and talking to Ragdoll and eating maple oatmeal and rewashing the laundry that sat wetly in the laundry room all week, as I was never awake enough to take it to be dried. Also washed my new red hoodie with the monkeys on the sleeves. Yes.

Had an argument with my mom that resulted when she decided she didn't want her cat (D-cat, the 20lb wonder) in her room and that I should come and get him. I flatly refused. He's her cat, and if she didn't want him in there when she was going to sleep she should have either asked me to move him before I left the room (like 30 minutes earlier) or moved him herself before she started to fall asleep. It's frustrating, because she doesn't really want him around her much, and he gets attention-starved, and I feel like it's my responsibility to make up for it. He sleeps next to me all the time and I never throw him or her other cat (B-cat) off the bed. Meanwhile, I don't see my own cat, N-cat, very often, as he prefers her room and is wary of the other two.

I think I am competing: She who dies with the most books, wins.
Must stop buying, start going to the school library. It's in a building pretty far from where all my classes are, and on the upper floor, so I usually wuss out whenever I think about going. At least recently. I used to go all the time, now I have to be hog-tied and dragged.

I mentioned the other night that I got a new cam (I needed one with USB). Now I am thinking of taking it back... I haven't opened it or anything yet. It's an Intel Deluxe and cost $50. Nothing fancy, but my friend Donna just got one and the picture quality is fabulous. However, since I can't hook it up til I get everything set up at my new desk (which is going to take so much time and effort!), I wanted to hook it up at the iBook and be able to take it around the house. Trouble is, it's for Windoze only. So I might take it back. But the other one I want, with the decent picture quality, is the 3com Homeconnect cam, which is like $130. I don't really know what to do.

Other than spending $1.50 on Powerpuff Girls window cling decorations, I am ignoring Valentine's Day. It used to be something I dreaded (as I've never, ever had a SO on the day itself, tho I have gotten a card here and there from Boys Who Liked Me), now it's just something in which I am uninterested.

ewwwww...

Yes, still awake. I think I am going to go to sleep soon but try to only sleep for 6 hours or so, so that I will be getting up in the early afternoon. Must be up early on Tuesday. My back is still bothering me but not as much; ankle is still cracking unreasonably often.

I got to the reds/pinks/oranges portion of my laundry and was horrified to find, for the first time ever, a big nasty patch of mold or mildew growing on something. The smell was amazingly offensive and I took the time to find out how to kill the evil spores by doing some searching. We don't have lemon juice, we don't have borax, we don't have anywhere I can dry the load in the sun - but AHA! we DO have white vinegar. So it is in there soaking in hot water and laundry detergent and 1/2c. white vinegar and, fingers crossed, that should do it. If not, the treatment is repeated & I have to pick up color-safe bleach.

I totally blame myself for not making it to the laundromat to dry this stuff this week (it was all the things that would hang-dry poorly), but I wasn't feeling well enough for that much labor. Maybe until we get the new dryer I should either hang ALL my clothes and then take some in to be softened-up in the laundromat dryers, or I should take all my laundry in to be done and only personally wash the stuff I can hang to dry. I loved going to the laundromat back in May and when I was doing it alone, but by September it had started to get old, and now it's very complicated because my mom goes & I get stuck there for a long time because she doesn't wash anything ahead of time & has other bizarre laundry-related idiosyncracies. It's hard to describe; mostly it's that I do the same amount of work as I did while she was gone, but it feels like two trips because of things like the car being so densely packed, not being able to choose the parking space, not having the big coin pouch at hand, that sort of thing. It usually involves a little bit more running around, and constant keeping-track-of-mom-because-she-has-the-coin-purse.

Also, my labret is infected, but I don't think that's because of the mold so much as because I'd slacked off on listerine. Now I'm using Listerine and PerOxyl again and it's not going away, so it seems to be time to pick up more GlyOxide. I did the tea tree oil thing tonight & will probably do salt water later, as well as lavender flower tea compresses.

I got my application from Sarah Lawrence in the mail today and I think Autumn is right - it's a monster. Almost 30pp. She warned me that she knows people who decided not to apply based on the application and I can't say I blame them. It's a very expensive school and not my first choice at all, so I am thinking of just not bothering with the application at all. I already have a huge portfolio to complete in under 2 months.

Meep.