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Have had a slow day today, just finishing with all my laundry and hanging around the house.

We watched the usual Sunday night TV stuff, then The Watcher, which is the movie where Keanu is a serial killer and James Spader hunts him. Utterly not notable, except that the little sparechanging skater who was Jane Doe #2 reminded me a lot of my (ex?)-friend C. She had a very similar face and hairstyle to what C. used to look like. Now mom is watching Lost Souls. She likes all those supernatural demonic-possession movies. Pleh. I've taken a rain check.

I'm about to go knit for a while, and possibly read. I'm trying not to break some of the slightly-better-than-usual habits I developed while I was away. We'll see. :)

oh yes, and...

RIP Joey Ramone.

bedtime!

I was talking to T. earlier when I realised I had a million things I wanted to do offline and no particular reason to be online. So I said goodbye and ran away.

Oh yeah, T. went and got himself a livejournal... only he's not going to use it. Thinks he's going to use it to read my friends-only entries (assuming I add him). Mocks us LJ users as addicts. hehehe. he will be assimilated.

Tonight I read for a while, and put together the little bookshelf my mother bought me the other night. Actually, it's a cd/dvd rack, but could be used to hold maybe 30 paperback books. I didn't ask for it... it was her idea, it helps with the piles of books around my bed, or at least should. She pointed them out to me in Target and said that it was up to me & she wasn't going to force me to get it, but she wished I would... so I did. Now it's assembled and the wood glue is drying and it's going to be sitting next to my nightstand. Whee!

(also, last load of clothes is being cleared of Smoke Smell, either on the current washing or the next. Whee again. I'm getting things done one step at a time.)

I have the edges of cramps, which is odd because I thought I started my period Monday night when I got sick in the restaurant I went to with Ragdoll... but I guess it was a false start. Tonight was for real, and I don't think I'm going to do much for the next day or two, so I am glad to have gotten through just about everything of immediate concern tonight.

and I'm tired. and I'm going to sleep now.

owie!

I am a little ball of cramps today... have been eating chocolate and alternating my heating pad between my lower back and my abs. Watched Tenchi and Weakest Link and Daria, and talked to Autumn for a few minutes earlier. I've knit more rows onto the fuzzy black scarf I'm doing. I hadn't done any knitting during most of last week. I also made some headway in The Magic Mountain.

FINALLY received a "request for further info" response card from the MFA School in Boston, which is affiliated with Tufts and trains ppl in studio art, design, art history, and so on. I doubt that my current grades are good enough to get into Tufts, though... how much more Wrong School purgatory am I going to go through? I've been at the same 2-year school since 1994 (1992 if you count dual-enrollment classes I took in high school). Now I am finally old enough to be an independent student financially, but I've been so miserable at my current school that my grades aren't what they could be. Sigh. I guess we'll see.

I started reading my friends' entries again last night. I'm not catching up - just picking a starting point and reading from there, and backtracking on a person-by-person basis if I seem to have wandered in during the middle of some major crisis.

My uncle's fiancee... who I usually like even tho her hijinks aggravate me... has decided to "go vegan". Is forcing her already malnutrition-suffering 7-yr-old son to join her. Of course they cheat a lot on social occasions. But I'm wondering who will develop bald spots and pernicious anemia first. (I'm not saying that everyone who is vegan has these problems, just that in this situation I think there's a good likelihood, for various reasons I won't go into here.) Hopefully the cheating will stop my small cousin from developing horrible diseases.

I'm hungry... I've eaten nothing but cookies and chocolates today. I'm going to eat some nice chicken and rice soup and bed up with my books and knitting. I situated my new shelf a few hours ago and have put some books on it already, so I think I will also do a little more in that direction, and drink some tea.