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first of all, i should be in bed by now. oh, yes, i know. i'm even tired.

I ended up going out grocery shopping. I didn't make a big trip, just picked up a few things. Spent about 15 minutes talking to this girl I ran into, who I've known since 1989 but seldom see. She's doing well. She's changed a lot, gotten more normal. But it was still lovely to talk to her. As a result, she got no salad and I got less than I planned (the store was closing).

After that I popped over to Barnes and Noble to return the newest Sark book, which I just wasn't into. I exchanged it for a knitting book, Vogue's Very Easy Knits. There are some gross things in the book, but a lot of nice basic sweaters and cardigans. I stopped at WalMart on the way home partly for some lame necessities (tapestry needles, buttons, post-it notes, blah blah) and partly to kill time until the end of Felicity, which my mom was taping for me. Then I came home and cooked for myself and ate, a little pasta dinner.

See... the problem with Felicity is that it hits pretty close to home sometimes. & any episode wherein the eponymous heroine, with whom I identify more than I should because there are many ways in which we are similar, is having major boy trouble (usually when someone is cheatin' or about to) is just... painful to watch. So while I was looking forward to it when it wasn't on, now I almost don't want to watch it, because after last week, I see a total train wreck coming. It's another one of those things that is an hour-long cringe. I wasn't up for it tonight.

After I went online for the night, I ran into the fabulous jet on AIM and talked her... ear? eyes?... off. Talked to sans souci for a bit too. now I am talking to MrAnthrope, aka T, mostly to thank him for my shirt which he purchased from my wish list and which arrived today. It is very cute and I will take a picture of it, though I may have to return it and get another, as they may have messed up the transfer when they folded it to ship it.

There are things which Jet thought I should post here, and I will... like how I come from a large family, actually, though you'd never know it to read what I write, and about my most recent abject terror (that my mother is going to move everywhere I move, and that as a result I will never get laid ever again). But that will be all in due time. Some of us have a whole day to sleep away first.

apologies to dear departed unca shel

oh
crash
my
bash
it's
bang
another
zang
ear
&$*#@!!
infection...
(whew!)

and i have lost all ability to sleep. damn it.

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I stuck naturopathic ear drops into my ears, put some cotton in them, and slept on and off for the rest of the morning and afternoon. Still feel tired though, and will hopefully fall asleep early and stay asleep for a long time.

Watched Friends and the last half of Gilmore Girls, both of which were enjoyable. Winona Ryder, how you have fallen. You look skeletal from the front (though not from the side, where I am happy to see that even your sticklike upper arms are doing the same slightly paunchy thing that mine do), but your voice is becoming ever scratchier and whinier. I will remember the halcyon days of the early 1990s when I adored you, rather than finding you intensely irritating.

Watched the last five minutes of Survivor - the person I liked and wanted to win got voted off. Oh well. That show is amazingly exploitative. There is not a "million dollar prize" for the winner; there is a million-dollar payment for being forced to jump through hoops the most for the amusement of the American (and one must assume international) public. & the million-dollar prize is paltry... yeah, it's a lot of money, but you know, think what the network is making in ad revenues. Think what the sponsors are making. Etc. It's just creepy when you realize what is actually going on.

After that I felt like I had watched too much TV for the night and, being dirty, needed a shower.

My mom is on the phone with my aunt. It's super-angst week around here: she's worried about her mother (for a list of reasons I'll go into another time), about her exams next week, and also has a raging case of PMS.

Honest Tea's Moroccan Mint teabags make an excellent brew which I highly recommend to all and sundry. Somewhat expensive, though. I'm not sure exactly how much I paid for the box, but I do know that there are only 15 bags in it.

Time to make more of it, and go back to my reading, which has somehow caught me up. I'm actually ahead of schedule now. I bought a little thing at WalMart last night that is perfect for reading - it's a small plastic folder containing a dispenser of see-through "arrow"-shaped tape flags (for marking specific passages) and a notepad. Since my former method was haphazardly placing non-arrow tapeflags everywhere and hoping I'd be able to find the passage I had marked, and keeping notes on the piece of paper that was marking my place, I'm much more pleased with this new method.