but i’d just as soon you didn’t
Tuesday, 29 March, 2005
today the sky is black and scary and occasionally making noise, and my chin is full of giant swollen lumps of gland that interfere with my new violin, which just wants to be under my chin being tortured into (something approximating) a scale in A.
school is going to make me read this term but i think i will like it.
(song: “you’re my only home,” the magnetic fields)
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i guess i will, every day
Tuesday, 22 March, 2005
this spring break, i have learned that i am not good at being bored. waking up with nothing to accomplish in a day makes me cranky. i need a goal of some sort, either something that must be done by the end of the day or someplace to be at a certain time. finishing books apparently doesn’t count, which is unfortunate, as i’m within 60 pages of the end of at least two books. so now i’m trying to find goals for every day this week. some options:
go for a bike ride in the morning
go to the gym (x3)
finish one half of one curtain (x2)
beat the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING spot i’m at in prince of persia
fix the stupid css for the website
put my controlled vocabulary in a database, just to prove i can.
and maybe i’ll bake something. i’ve been thinking about making fifteen batches of muffins and then freezing them for breakfasts for the rest of eternity.
got home today from a brief and boring (and therefore cranky) trip to portland. since it was largely a business (catsitting for my mom) trip, i didn’t see anyone except katie on the way down. i did get to have a little picnic in clatskanie, which was very nice; it was strange to be so close to astoria. the other high point of the trip was the $5 crossword puzzle book at powell’s. it’s all sunday puzzles so i will be busy for a while.
addendum to the list of daily goals:
finish one crossword puzzle.
(song: “guess things happen that way,” johnny cash)
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just staring at the ceiling tiles
Tuesday, 15 March, 2005
i should change the title to hairblog. apparently there is nothing else interesting in my life to talk about.
so, i have become a person with good hair days and bad hair days. i never understood this before. i do not enjoy my newfound understanding of this problem. the first time i washed it after i got it cut, it was curly and awesome and i loved it, and it was easy to get it to do that that so i thought i would be able to do it all the time. but no. it hasn’t been curly since. it has been frizzy and fuzzy and just plain sticky-outy, but not curly. this morning i tried to make it curly, but it’s so fluffy that even the ponytail looks ridiculous.
hmph.
last night as i was sitting around after dinner with friends, a super scary thing happened, with a dog and a seizure and a falling (like five feet) off the back porch of the house we were at. i had bad dreams about it. poor seizey dog. beware the ides of march!
final projects are almost over, except the database that i have to make go for my independent study. i can do the database OK but we’re also doing some things with visual basic, which i don’t understand at all. gr.
next term i get to learn javascript and XML and PHP and it will be terribly exciting.
(song: “brian wilson,” barenaked ladies)
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it’s hard to make the good things last
Wednesday, 9 March, 2005
yesterday i was going to post about how nice it is of seattle to ease my transition into my new identity as short-haired almost-curly person with warm springy weather, but today (the day i finally left my coat at home and wore flip-flops instead of clogs) it is grey and spattery.
i love grey and spattery, of course, but today, waking up to the sound of crows, the water droplets on my glasses as i walked to school, and the dark-haired girl with the tweed jacket and red polka dot purse who was yawning as she let herself into her apartment at 9:30 this morning have all for some reason combined to make me nostalgic. i don’t know if it’s for eugene itself, all the places and movies and burritos and sushi and bike rides, or if it’s for undergrad and something, anything, that’s less tiring than grad school, or if it’s for the people, most of whom wouldn’t be there anymore even if i were. it’s a little strange to be nostalgic for everything that happened over the span of five or six years. freshman-year lauren and second-senior-year lauren were so different, but i miss them both.
(song: “do you realize,” the flaming lips)
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In the catalog under mood/unsure; hair
the place with the most allure
Sunday, 6 March, 2005
this is what the back of my head looked like on friday morning:
this is what the front of my head looked like on friday morning:
my favorite pictures of myself are ones where i am looking at the ground, or my feet, or my food.
and this!
even though this picture was taken today, this is a mostly accurate representation …
… of what my head looked like on friday night.
did you know my hair was almost curly? i didn’t know it was almost curly.
apparently it’s almost curly.
aww, the tiny little ponytail!
(i’m afraid i’m going to be ostracized from library school now that i can’t make it into a proper bun.)
when it’s wet, it’s even curlier! just wait until i take it to the beach!
(also, jesus god i look like my sister sometimes. also, pink.)
here, i am very pleased with myself.
i like this picture even though i’m looking at the camera.
after the wake - you know, for the hairs - i came home and read this story my sister wrote about me and cried and cried.
(song: “i love the unknown,” clem snide)
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i prefer boysenberry more than any ordinary jam
Tuesday, 1 March, 2005
i don’t have anything to be doing at this very instant, and i don’t know what to do with myself. it has been the week-and-a-half of awfulness and misery, but it’s almost over now! last night and this morning i got the last of the final project (currently locked, will be unlocked soon) for government publications done. yesterday i finished my section of the thesaurus. i have another late group project night tonight as we try to throw together the introduction for the thesaurus all at one go, but it actually shouldn’t be too bad. i keep waiting for that class to become unbearable like it seemed to be for everyone else last year, but it hasn’t. i’ve quite enjoyed myself, actually. who knew a group project could go so smoothly?
because i finished a project, i got to have lunch at pies&pints, where i had yummy welsh pretzels - like at the stadium, but better - and spinach and goat cheese salad and a delicious pot pie. yay!
soon it will be spring break. i am looking forward to doing things that aren’t related to school. like riding my bike!
(song: “punky’s dilemma,” simon&garfunkel)