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I am tired! I want to go to sleep, but I need to stay up at least a few more hours (either that, or ensure that I only sleep a few hours if I go to sleep now... I prefer the former option to the latter, because it means that when I get up I will actually be useful for DOING something, as opposed to a sleep-deprived mess with itchy achy eyes and no energy). I guess I will be missing Sex and the City tonight, although I might be able to catch the western satellite feed.

I just got home from running errands. I went to McD's to grab a breakfast sandwich, to the laundromat and dried four loads (including my most excellent buttercream-colored "raining cats and dogs" flannel sheets, which I will be able to start using sometime in the next month or so), then to Wal-Mart to get a battery for my digicam, then to the carwash to... duh. I'm disappointed with my carwashing job, though... the hood is all streaky and I didn't get all the dead bug smears off. I will have to go later this week. (It is a good thing I am not a Jainist, because the insect homicide alone wreakedby my vehicle would make me a religious outcast. Not that a Jainist would drive or anything.) I was also mildly stunned that 9V batteries cost so damn much at WalMart - Duracells were $7 for a pack of 2 and no single batteries were available! I could have bought the RayOVac ones but I was a little suspicious of them... anyone know how RayOVac batteries do? They cost about half what Duracell does.

I was in a stressed mood between the laundromat and WalMart and thinking about the current financial crisis, but then I turned the radio on and the Beastie Boys were singing "Intergalactic." While I like the Boys, I'm not a huge fan (don't own any of their cds, for example), but it was the perfect thing to brighten my mood. It's a beautiful day - warm, breezy, and mostly clear, with fluffy white clouds speeding across the sky like some film-school student's wet dream - time to put the windows down and crank the radio up. This is why sunroofs were invented.

I came home and cleaned out the car, hopefully removing any source of Bad Smells. It's reeked in there for the past two weeks but I have no idea why, and frequent sprayings of Ozium seem to be doing no good. Later tonight I am going to do the bills. (I keep saying that, don't I?)

When I got into the house, my mother had left me a message which was all sweet and friendly, so I called her and informed her of my intention to get a job so that I could make house and car payments, and she got... I don't know, she wasn't touched per se, or mad, but she was like "Honey, you don't have to do that, that's not your job, it's mine... just worry about school." (Come on, I'm 24... it wouldn't hurt me to pay rent, even if she reimburses me for it with the insurance payments, as she has said she will if I go this route. I don't think it's altruistic, I think it's just trying to behave like a grownup and accept what I see as my responsibilities... I guess "Mom won't let me support myself... yay!" is the flipside of "Mom occasionally treats me like a child and orders me around and stuff.") Still, even if not paying off her debt, I am in debt and would like to knock it down. It's only a few hundred dollars, but the less time I am paying it, the better. I don't like to be in credit card debt at all, and I want my credit cards to be open for purchases if I need them, not run up. Between them I have to make almost $100 in payments a month, and that's more than I want to spend on interest.

So, that is the news. I am going to read or do housework or something. I really need to put a new bulb in the lamp in the living room, so I can accomplish things in my work area at night... I've been putting it off all summer, but now that school has started I can't go on doing collages with XActo knives on my lap in bed! work work work work work, that's all it is.

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