Month: February 2003
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Imagine, If You Will…
…what it would be like if Sundry and I went to JournalCon this October. Can’t you see it? Picture us leaning on the wall of the ballroom in the hotel, watching all the Cool Famous Journallers shriek with recognition, drink, hand out “swag,” and make karaoke plans. Picture us whispering and tussling and punching each…
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Occasionally
Now, the whole reason behind this trip, besides seeing our sweet friends, was ostensibly to go to a Gaskell Occasional Ball. These are lots of fun…dancing is fun, and dressing up is fun, and a live brass band is fun. And that’s what a Gaskell is. People get all freaky and wear huge period-authentic hoop…
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I Like Otters
I first went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the summer of 1993 when I was on my high school graduation trip to California with My Friend Amy. We’d seen a video of it somewhere, I think, and decided to spend a day there. It was the first time I’d been to a real aquarium…
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Footwear
Seems like a girl just can’t get any privacy in the middle of REI when she’s waiting for her boyfriend to get back from going across the street to the other outdoor store to look at the shoes they have over there. Apparently REI doesn’t have enough shoes—on sale shoes, at that—and so this girl,…
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A Retraction
My Friend Anna emailed me to let me know that there are several people in her house…and possibly several more people in the world…who like Valentine’s Day very much indeed. She herself has her wedding anniversary on Valentine’s Day, so she should know, right? So now I have to shamefacedly admit that there are many…
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No One Even Likes It
Okay, so can we agree that no one even really likes Valentine’s Day? No one? I never, ever hear people sitting around going “Oh, Valentine’s Day. I love it so. The stale chocolate, the overpriced banal dozen red roses, the crowded restaurants! There’s just something so magical about this time of year, you know?” No…
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Nose In A Book
Sometimes you don’t have a lot to say, and so you write a short entry about what you’re reading, what you just read, what you’re re-reading, and what you might like to read in the future. No one minds, right? A History of God by Karen Armstrong. I think this is actually overdue at the…
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Vaguely Dissatisfied Blues
Not a lot going on with me. Not like last week when there was a reality show and lunch with a cool journaller, and a trip to the Korean spa. This has, thus far, been a week where the cat scratched me really near the eyeball for trying to pet her, where I ate lots…
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Just Had To Share
This entry is going to be the online journal equivalent of my calling you at about 2:00 on a Sunday afternoon and telling you about the dream I had last night: “And then? Okay, check it, I was totally in this house? And it was on fire? And I couldn’t find the way out, and…