Apophenia

1. So I fly to the company tomorrow. I return the Wednesday.
2. I way oversleep the today.
3. I purchase a tea thingy with a temperature control, so the gentle white and green teas aren't bitter about their cruel fate. Also, because our pot broke, and I risk death and embarrassment daily if I forget to turn it off.
4. There is a new memory-boosting pill.
5. I scowl at Dell completing everything except the boxing-up and shipping, which they estimate will take another week before some lout gets around to it.
6. The big new monitor was damaged and blurry, so the jodawi calculus resulted in it being returned and new flat-panel purchased instead, with mild side-effect of new computer system.
7. The returning has to be returned, rather than sitting in the living room. Do not write on the box, they say.
8. We don't do much living in the living room, and the room itself doesn't do much living, but it has the bulk of the indoor planticulae.
9. I have the packing to the do. The packing has the laundry to do.
10. Lots of bugs need to be fixed before yesterday.
11. The laundry has the doing to do.

Ten things I've done that you probably haven't?

1. Lived in a converted goat barn.
2. Won both of the physics department scholarships.
3. Convinced my college to let me do whatever I wanted for a semester for full credit, with no tests or other requirements besides meeting with professors periodically to tell them what I was doing.
4. Built a bed and a kitchen cabinet in a backyard with minimal power tools and no work bench.
5. Made a fence that can keep cats in and confuse raccoons for a goodly while.
6. Passed Ph.D. qualifiers and wrote half my master's thesis before deciding enough was enough and switching to a different degree that was actually enjoyable.
7. In one year saved two people from losing homes and one dog from losing its life.
8. Played in a gamelan.
9. Performed the wedding ceremony for my mother and her husband.
10. Ran a TRS-80 Color Computer into the ground until it became a TRS-80 Black & White Computer.

• House still half-unpacked
• Couple days behind in work because Mysterious Problem appears and resists disappearing
• Fence half-done
• Officially half-depressed
• Went to lotusdragon birthday party; got squishysplat pink princess football and Lite-Brite and instant-insects-just-add-water for her; was fed pizza and marzipan chocolate cake
• I never had that many gifties when i was a wee birthday being, I think
• Little baby weeds are growing up out of the holes where i allegedly removed the roots of the parent weeds
• Vapor-cleaner vacuum thing arrived; haven't attempted auto detailing yet
• Went to first with-each-other restaurant since moving in
• Went to first drive-into-the-country trip since moving in
• Cats taken to vet; "You sure he's 11 years old? He looks like about 5."
• Haven't planted Jesebel the rose yet; waiting for the fence to go past that area.
• "Met" a toxic iron golem

You play.

• Many fence posts are now in the back yard.
• All have little extender things on them to hang netting from.
• None have netting. Select areas do not have hardware cloth. There is no kitty escalator from the verandah to the ground.
• Ow says my little finger when I try to type.
• Cough says my latest batch of bronchitis.
• I bought a rose, which has high amounts of scent. I named it Jesebel.
• It will live in the corner of the planter where I pulled out all the weeds.
• I am dirty.
• Many blackberries have been pulled up by as much root as would pull up. I use pliers. I expect they will haunt me forever here.
• In my weakness, I did not continue working via electric lights until done.
• I need to buy a gate anyway.
• The one rubber ducky has been found. I enter the bath.
• Spelling check in Semagic still sucks.

1. "sometimes, having a journal is depressing. especially when you can look back one year and realize that hardly a thing has changed."


2. "i hate the way i am. i wish i didn't exist."


3. "*runs screaming into the night*"


4. "what a hellish day at work today."


5. "He actually leaned forward while I was cleaning with the sponge and told me, "yeah, that's right, you will clean it up.""


6. "*nervous*"


7. "I had a really, really lovely weekend."


8. "there will be an MRI of my leg this afternoon (to track down the pain)"


9. "*brings up an image of a golden globule energy mud fight.. all sorts of things being slung around and sticking to bodies and bright happy laughter and smiles*"

I have nothing of my own to add.

I want a pet that looks like this:

Maybe i do some sleep. Maybe I will go to sleep now.

• 1150 cubic feet of stuff is now lumping about the house


• many paper mails will arrive today


• deleting the 10000 spams


• cable modem modemming, but must find router and cables and doomoms and doodads


• wrist hurts


• poison ivy over 1150 square feet of my skin surface area : it itches


• purchased two fine strapping moving peeps to move things off truck, as moving things on truck was too much workes. lolo bargain price $350.


• may attempt the shaving and clean clothes today, for the ability to people seeing me without the fear.


• kitties were astoundingly good on trip, except when nebu bethought to shit down my neck (redirected to waiting litter box) and a few mwowl moments.


• my speech has been slurry for a week or two; either am tired or brain tumor or poison ivy or moo