past the house lines and the apartment buildings
Saturday, 28 May, 2005
now i have keys for three houses!
the new house is awesome every time i go look at it, which is good; sometimes when you’re househunting things look great but then when you go back to sign the lease, the kitchen is actually tiny and the carpet is gross. but this house actually gets better every time, which is amazing considering how much i’ve been daydreaming about it.
fireplace! basement! yard! garden! rosemary, lavender, lilac!
moving will happen slowly, interspersed with paper-writing and code-learning and dog-sitting. but! by the end of the month i will have all my possessions all in once place again! this is, i think, the most exciting aspect of the whole thing.
we forgot to take pictures.
(song: “give me time,” richmond fontaine)
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In the catalog under mood/happy; nothing
everything i thought i did right
Wednesday, 18 May, 2005
this morning i am cranky. i suppose i need to have more coffee and some food. but there were no leftovers to bring for lunch and last time i ate on campus when i was grumpy, i ended up with one of those korean ramen-in-a-bowl, just-add-water things. soup is my default when i am cross, especially salty soup, but for this one i checked the sodium content because i am working on not kiling myself with oversaltedness. it only had 63% of my daily sodium, so i bought it. on the way back to my office i noticed that it actually said that one serving had 63%, and the bowl contained two servings. oops. the bowl also contained several interesting ingredients: “onion laver,” “wel shonion,” “seatangle” (sea tangle or seat angle? i guess we’ll never know).
i ate the whole thing anyway, despite the MSG and the wel shonion and the onion laver and the hot pink pinwheel shaped fish cakes, which are cute but not something that i feel should actually be digested. and it was good.
school is getting to the point where i start chewing on my nails, and my face starts breaking out, and i start going crazy. whee! but at least the househunting stress is over so i can focus fully on the academic stress: on monday we signed the lease for a super cute two-bedroom in wallingford with a fireplace and a basement and a garden all ready for me! i get to start moving in on june 1.
and in the meantime i have to figure out PHP and MySQL and how to make them talk to each other, and write a 10+ page paper, and learn JavaScript so i can fix my flowershop.
(song: “montgomery park,” richmond fontaine)
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In the catalog under mood/grumpy; school
make me sort of glad that i waited till today
Wednesday, 11 May, 2005
paradoxically, waking up super early (6:45 today, whyyy?) always makes me have to scramble to get out the door in time, because it throws me off of my normal schedule and i spend the whole morning goofing off. i would usually be waking up about now, checking email briefly, and getting in the shower. instead i am posting here. this is decidedly not something that will help me catch my bus to meet shannon and learn how to do archival cataloging.
a lot of things got very different very quickly over the last week! i was planning to move out to lake city in august or so, but then came a letter from the landlady saying that she wanted to sell the house, so G. either needed to move out or to buy it. for a couple of days there was frantic calling of bankers and arranging of loans from parents so he could buy it. then he decided he didn’t want to do it, so i had to switch gears into two-bedroom-house-rental-hunting mode, which is no fun.
and then for birthday he recieved a new powerbook, which means i got the “old” powerbook, which is terribly exciting! mac for meee! i love it.
and now when we find the perfect house with a basement and a fenced yard and a big kitchen and an easy walk to the bus to downtown and campus, we will have seven computers in it.
(song: “rollerskate skinny,” the old 97s. i just learned that rollerskate skinny is from catcher in the rye!)
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what do you know, it felt good
Sunday, 1 May, 2005
i observed may day eve with only half as much debauchery as it deserves; there was drinking and loud music and dancing (well, head-bobbing) but no sex in the fields and no fires. which is best, considering.
i ended up selling out bobby’s tshirts, except the one small men’s that was left, which he gave me in exchange for accidentally running his merch table for him. he called me “princess” and told me about his wife and his baby, isabella. they call her “belly bare,” and he sticks out his stomach and rubs it when he says her name.
overdramatization in my last post; i don’t want to Be A Writer, but i want to write things i don’t hate. i don’t know what that would look like, though. i’ve never done it.
(song: “reno,” chuckanut drive)