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Uneventful evening. Spent most of it dyeing my hair red, a mix of nuclear red and blood red by Special Effects. I let it soak for 4 hours, it should last for a month. I read, I looked for several yarns online which proved difficult to find.

After I rinsed my head out, came and checked my email to find mail from both my old friend S. (the exbf who is now in Boston) and WB, who is... I dunno. A little distant. Hurried, pulling all-nighters lately. Apparently things are over with the last girl and he is exuberantly chasing another, which would be a weekend relationship. I am resisting attempts/suggestions that would push us closer together because... I don't feel like it's a good time, if there ever were to be one it would not be now. & there are plenty of fish in the sea... if my hook is barren it is because i am not baiting it. but would i bait it for him, or am i NOT baiting it BECAUSE of him? I don't think so. i get lonely but i really do not think i am together enough for a real grown-up relationship. which is the only kind i can accept, at this point.

so, that is what i have done - the usual dull stuff while my head soaked in dye, and those emails. I have some work to do and will probably go to sleep in an hour or two.

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Got this from one of my friends, though I shan't say who.

What are you waiting for? Get writing! (If a popular online journaling community cannot summon some deliberately bad writing from its depths, then there is no hope for the genre in the future... I know there are some people reading this who are good enough to be that bad!)

The Bulwer-Lytton Contest

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I slept a lot today. Woke up with The Headache (which has been upgraded from merely being "a" headache, as it appears to be the same damn one every day). Had a ton of strange dreams I don't want to describe, except to say that dead pets and dead people made appearances.

I need to start getting my stuff ready to go tonight. Not really -packing-, but making lists, assembling toiletries, that kind of thing. My haul of samples from the Kiehl's counter at Saks is going to help a lot with that. But I'm so disorganized right now that I really need two days to make sure I don't forget anything I'm itching to take with me.

I posted some friends-only entries last night, and will post some more tonight, so log in if you aren't already.

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gah. this pre-packing stuff is energy-consuming. I'm doing a lot of laundry. i can't decide yet which bags to take: my big suitcase and its matching "boarding bag" are givens, but I also have a big pullman duffle bag with Badtz-Maru on it, and a small zebra suitcase, and a backpack. I'm thinking that if I don't take the zebra as a carry-on, I'll probably take it in the large suitcase so that I can carry things home in it if I need to.

I guess the question is more "Do I need to take the Badtz-Maru duffle?" and "Do I want to carry my backpack or the zebra-bag on the plane with me?" than anything else.

I checked the Weather Channel site earlier, and found that it's not going much above 45 degrees the entire time I'll be there, which definitely shifted my wardrobe plans out of "cute tshirts" and into "i knew i had all these sweaters for a reason". Wishing I had gotten some drycleaning done last week; my nice wool cardigans are all dirty.

Watch the little chicken's head spinning...