week one

I have a few minutes — less than ten, actually — so I thought I’d update everyone on my adventures this week. Monday morning was my first day back at work since the 10th. Needless to say, it was nothing short of Insane. By the time I had put in a full day, I was gearing up for my very first class of graduate school, so I grabbed a hazelnut latte from the café and headed over to the largest and most mysterious building on campus. (Aside from the library, of course.) The prose writing workshop far exceeded any expectations I had had going in, which thrilled me because I have not had a regular prose writing outlet for over a year now. Well, aside from this journal, which is prosaic at best. The instructor is new and excited and trusts us...

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Posted on 27 Aug 2004 | 2 comments

happy farscape dance

During this utterly hellish day I get one stellar bit of brightness, thanks to Lucy: the trailer for the Farscape miniseries is up at apple.com. Pardon me while I do my little happy Farscape dance!

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Posted on 25 Aug 2004 | 2 comments

no, no

No, no. My new pen, unfamiliar, clunky, slides around on my callous. I found an old notebook in my office for tonight’s class. No, no. I miss Vancouver. I miss the endless walks, arms slung about waists, giggling into the humid nighttime. I miss mornings without an alarm clock and I miss the gigantic bathtub in Victoria and I miss aggressively touring botanical gardens and I miss not knowing where I was and not caring and I miss food, all the food, every bite. No, no. The first class I’m supposed to take, the first one that’s actually second, is now going to be third, or fourth, or I don’t know when. I’m bumped out and my alternatives are Christian and Muslim Faith, Political Philosophy of Statesmanship, or Women’s...

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Posted on 23 Aug 2004 | 1 comment

e-rejection

Looks like I missed the rise of the Paper Napkin email rejection service while I was away on vacation. And I’m glad. The concept annoys me. Whatever happened to straightforward, non-schadenfreude-oriented rejection? From the website: Paper Napkin is a service to help passive-agressive cowards avoid people who would like to date them. If someone random asks you for your email address so they can contact you for a date, give them an email address @papernapkin.net (write it on a cocktail napkin for maximum effect) and we will send them a rejection message. You can put anything before the @ sign in the address, so feel free to use a real-sounding name so that they’ll believe it. If they actually send a message and it’s funny and/or desperate...

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Posted on 21 Aug 2004 | 9 comments

return and record

The room is growing dark and I still don’t have a summation of the trip composed. It was, in a word, extraordinary. I’m quite smitten with Vancouver, and look forward to sharing my thoughts and feelings here soon. But first I need some dinner and a few hours to pet Zen and catch up with my online life. Photos will be posted in my travel gallery after they’ve been developed; I discovered that my digital camera was stolen from my car last month, so we recorded the whole trip with disposable cameras. I’m off to play with my new TiVo. O, I didn’t mention that? Yes, well, the TiVo Fairy made a stop here today. I’m trying very hard not to be impressed. (Thank you, TiVo Fairy. You’re brilliant.) [Update — Now that...

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Posted on 20 Aug 2004 | 4 comments

signing off for now

Outback Jack picked the right girl! I have new hope for true love. Or something like that. After releasing a bunch of residual work stress via website tweaking, I’ve got my journal looking and working the way I want it to again … just in time for vacation, sans computers. Still to do before this afternoon: move car by 07:00 so it doesn’t get towed charge mobile phone and digital camera choose books to bring pick up more cat food and litter clean Zen‘s litter-box and clip her claws get laundry detergent and quarters for last bit of laundry wrap the MSG‘s birthday presents finish packing kiss Zen and hug Inkbot goodbye We’ll be boarding a plane for Vancouver in less than eighteen hours. See you in ten days! [Update @ 07:26:...

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Posted on 11 Aug 2004 | 8 comments

faster, countdown

I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to go anywhere in my whole entire (short) life. And this from the person who always gets excited about travel! I’m literally bouncing in my chair. One more hour of work before my vacation. I don’t know if I can stand it! There’s so much to do that I’ll probably end up staying late, of course, but it’s the concept of just one more hour of work that I’m savoring. Not only are we staying in extremely beautiful hotels and B&Bs, we’ve already planned two dinners at restaurants that sound excellent, and have a mile-long list of fun things to do. But the best part is that I get to go on an extended adventure in a gorgeous place with my favorite person. It doesn’t...

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Posted on 10 Aug 2004 | 1 comment

netflix for purses

I certainly don’t have any designer purses, nor the drive to own any, but the Bag Borrow or Steal concept is an interesting one. It’s like Netflix for purses. Unfortunately, the cutest purses are only available at the highest membership level, aptly named “Diva”; otherwise, I might be tempted to try it out. For a hundred bucks a month, I expect each purse to come with its own complimentary jar of Nutella and a silver spoon from Tiffany’s. [from seanbonner: NetFlix for Handbags]

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Posted on 10 Aug 2004 | Comments Off

dreaming again

… and we’re back to DreamHost. The templates are not yet in place, but so far, it looks like comments are functional. I’m accepting comments from unregistered visitors as well as TypeKey users, so please help me test the new host by commenting on this entry. One day until Vancouver. I just want to be there already.

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Posted on 10 Aug 2004 | 7 comments

meaning has no consideration

From SFGate.com, “Three-letter word sparks Scrabble scramble”: It wasn’t a four-letter word, but it was close enough to cause a stir at the National Scrabble Championship Thursday. In the final round, eventual champion Trey Wright played the word “lez,” which was on a list of offensive words not allowed during the tournament. Normally, no word is off-limits, but because the games were being taped for broadcast on ESPN, certain terms had been deemed inappropriate, including the three-letter slang for lesbian. I’m not ready for Mercury retrograde this time. Not that I’m ever ready, really, but I’m extremely not ready for this one, especially with the timing of the trip to Vancouver. Mercury retrograde gives rise to...

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Posted on 6 Aug 2004 | 1 comment