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I have decided I will do my review on Spellbound, which erin and I will see on Monday here after she comes over and plays with kitten and shmitten. That's my plan-- make sure I stick to it, now!

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:49 PM | shower me with attention

Saw Finding Nemo today. It was great. I'm seeing great kiddie movies lately, reading great kiddie books. Regression as usual? In the summertime, I turn into a ten-year-old? Yes? To counteract the fact that I have to go to boring school until 9:30 at night four nights a week, in a row? So in my off time I do things that make me enjoy life as a child does. Who's it hurting?

The good folks at Knitter's Review helped me with my sweater problem.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:42 PM | shower me with attention

Today I bought a copy of Milo and the Phantom Tollbooth for a quarter. Can you believe I hadn't owned that one? F'real.

I'm stuck on a pattern. Someone help me, it's driving me crazy.

I'm all about the children's books lately. I am incapable of reading adult literature now.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:41 AM | shower me with attention

Friday, June 13, 2003

Well, now. I just finished confirming my application for unemployment benefits. I dunno what kind of milestone that is, but hell, I'm a freakin' adult in the freakin' real world now, eh?

The idea is, as long as I'm not working anyway, I might as well get some sort of money coming in. Until I start looking for the next job. Who knew you could claim benefits after working part-time?

Anyway it should get me through my Mint Manor weekends with the minimum of burden on Gina.

And I got my last check from ********* today. Oddly, it is for a lot more money than I should have received, considering I only worked one more day in my penultimate week. But I've never been good with math. It's a good thing I don't work in payroll.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:27 PM | shower me with attention

Fuck the BBC! Fuck the BBC! FUCK THE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING BBC!!

Andrew and I just watched the last episode of The Tripods and he was right; I am not happy with the ending. I am very, very unsatisfied with the ending. As it turns out, when they were making the series back in the 80's, they made the first two seasons of it, and then someone new came in to the BBC programming department and decided that he didn't like sci-fi, so he halted production on the third season. So what they did was end the second season horribly with a terrible, terrible, depressing non-conclusion sort of hopeless ending where the world just gets destroyed and everything is for nothing. Which is not at all what happens in the books, as Andrew tells me. FUCK THE BBC!! I'm trying to think of a good analogy, but I can't particularly think of one, so I'm going with Andrew's: "It's like, for a guy, if right before the point of orgasm, you have your dick cut off."

I'll go with that.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:44 AM | shower me with attention

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Next Thursday I have to turn in a film review. I have to go see the movie in a theatre, but not a mainstream theatre, more of an Angelika/Bam!/Gramercy Theatre/Anthonly Film Archives/I can't remember the rest of the theatres on the list- type of theatre. And it can't be a mainstream blockbuster X-Men kind of movie, although it can have wide distribution.

So, suggestions please?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:56 PM | shower me with attention

Twelfth of June, a triple-threat:

1) Today is G o i l Day! On June 12, 1999, The Wrong Guy was playing at The Screening Room and certain people showed up, and those certain people were the beginning of the sloppy, beautiful entity known collectively as The Goils. Thank you, Dave Foley.

2) Today is Scott Thompson Day! In his honour, I suggest that those with Trio (like myself) try and catch him in "That's Not Funny!". His segment appears towards the end. And if you can tape it for me, or come over to my house and hook up my VCR for me, that would be good too.

3) Twelfth of June, a gibbous moon... Second-best song on that album. Is Aimee psychic, or did she have inside information? (You were clued in, you knew just how this thing would go...) (Of course she didn't, I'm just being provocative.)

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:38 AM | shower me with attention

Today I skipped film class to go see Jordan's show at CBGB's, which was very good. Then sis and I went home and had dinner with Junior High Guy, who is a fabulous human being and I just love him and must conspire to make sure he remains in touch with us and so we're going to the movies next week. I just love this guy. He is the best guy.

High pollen count today, must be. I'm a sneezy thing.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:30 AM | shower me with attention

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

I need this. Badly.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 5:37 PM | shower me with attention

My dream last night:

The Kids in the Hall have hired me as an assistant. I am in Group Headquarters, which is some sort of a clubhouse or a tree fort, and I'm going through their email and junking the spam. Kevin doesn't like me and keeps casting suspicious glances my way. Bruce seems oblivious to my presence. Dave is nowhere to be found. Mark is on his way. Scott decides that we must go to Raveland, a themepark for Ravers, and all take Ecstasy. I am very nervous.

"I don't want to take Ecstasy," I say.

Scott insists. He shows me a brochure of Raveland. Everything is oversized and colourful and people are dressed as giant orange octopi. I am very much afraid.

"Where is Mark?" I say.

"Mark is here, we're all getting ready to leave."

"How will it interact with my medication?" I say. I am beginning to dislike Scott a lot.

"Oh, you can't have any of that the whole week we're there," Scott says.

"But after a day or two I get really nauseous if I don't have it," I say in a tiny voice.

Scott shrugs and carries his suitcases out of the clubhouse. I look around in panic. Suddenly, by the door, is Mark. He has in his hand two small Effexor pills. I look at him gratefully. He is my knight in shining armour. Suddenly, we're all outside singing, "I've Got a Theory" from Buffy: The Musical. Raveland is forgotten. "Let's sing another one!" says Kevin.

So it was a scary dream but it ended on a high note.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:07 PM | shower me with attention

Tonight is the first night of kitties-loose-in-the-house. We've moved their food out to the kitchen and their litterbox to the back bathroom and they've been unconfined since this afternoon.

Having been accustomed for the past month to sleeping on the couch, despite my freedom to return to my own bed, I have this evening been lounging on the couch watching an Alan Arkin movie (because as we all know, I love Alan Arkin) and they both snuggled down with me. Oh, the lovins! But then I decided to check my email, so I settled into the computer chair, and now they're both snuggled down in my lap here as well. Damned if they didn't follow me!

That's so lovable. I can't even. So lovable. Lovable babies.

Maya just erased my last sentence. She didn't mean to. I fixed it.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:45 AM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

I'm back in that place where I feel like not quite a worthwhile member of society. I knew this would happen after my job ended. I don't mind not having money, except on weekends, but my parents spare what they can so I don't have to be stuck in the house all the time. And all I buy on weekends are PATHfare and food so that Gina doesn't have to be burdened. If I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't go. Gina and I have a very good system worked out in this respect. We help each other when we can.

School is dull and the hours are long. Every night, two hours of "This is a port." "This is a CPU." "This is ROM." followed by two hours of "This is a genre." "This is a sprocket." "This is a second assistant director". Tonight we finished Stagecoach, which had a helluvan impressive chase scene near the end. I'm not a chase-scene gal, but it was really good, it was. The problem is, I am very soon going to have to be able to say things like the previous sentence in an interesting way, so I can be graded on a film review. I'm not really much for saying things in an interesting way. My caffeine-deprived brain is too tired for critical thought.

I had half a cupcake today. People shouldn't leave the following items around the house: 1. Crunchy Chinese soup noodles. 2. Crackers. 3. Cupcakes from Magnolia's. Well, what does it matter? I'm too tired to exercise so I'm not getting any skinnier anyway.

I emailed Brucio.com to ask if they were gonna post Kaylum's interview. Bruce's assistant emailed me back. That was, literally, the most interesting part of my week.

Oh but hey, me and sis are gonna have coffee (decaf) tomorrow night with that guy from Junior High tomorrow, and on Thursday the boy is coming so we can watch the last two Tripods. So who says I don't have a life.

Oh, right. Me.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:35 PM | shower me with attention

How long does caffeine withdrawal last? I'm too sleepy to look it up.

Getting an air-conditioner cold.

Lonely days.

Happily: got my plane tickets for Sweden. That brief window of time between the end of summer school and the beginning of fall school, two weeks, will be spent in paradise.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:39 PM | shower me with attention

I don't know what it is that caffeine does for your body, but I'm pretty sure that without it, your head caves in
your head caves in
your head caves in
your head caves in
your head caves in
your head caves in

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:56 AM | shower me with attention

Monday, June 09, 2003

Happy 69th birthday, pal.

(We're buds.)

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:15 PM | shower me with attention

"But they made MUD GUM!"

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:12 PM | shower me with attention

1) I just turned down the job offers. I'm not going to look for work until after Sweden (late August), on my mother's advice. Since it was her advice, I suppose the idea is that she'll help me financially as much as she can over the summer. Good mom. Good, good mom.
(Addendum: One of the companies sent me an email just now, "Call us in the fall, you never know." That's nice. I like them.)

2) Can anyone tell me more about Airport wireless technology? What will I need to buy, will it work without my broken ethernet port (which is the whole point of getting it), who should I buy it from? Does Apple have to install it or can Tekserve do it? What's the difference between Airport and Airport Extreme?

FAQs give me a headache, someone tell to me in stupid-person terms.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:04 PM | shower me with attention

The Tonies were predictable and largely appalling, but that girl from Hairspray-- which I didn't even see, but I wish I could, and I really want the CD, based on the one song from the musical I've ever heard, but the song is so good-- she won! She won over Bernadette Peters (whose performance of "Rose's Turn" absolutely fucking enthralled me, and there's another musical I'd cut my toes off for the chance to see!) Bernadette Peters, goddess of the thee-yate-er! Man, that girl was cute. I wish I could remember her name. I wish the reasons for my delight over her winning weren't so damned shallow. I really wish they weren't. I'm a big hypocrite. But it's so cool that short, spunky, fat girls are winning Tonies.

Also, Harvey Fierstein. I just love him. He's so strange and raspy.

Also, I haven't had a drop of coffee all weekend. I've had some Diet Coke, and some green tea, because you're not supposed to go cold-turkey. But nowhere near the amount of caffeine I'm used to. My headache is nonstop and I don't think I've been fully awake all weekend. My napping levels reached an all-time high. But a few more days of this and I should be clean, right?

I'm really in the mood to watch this, though.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:39 AM | shower me with attention

My dream yarn arrived weeks ago and my family neglected to tell me about it. Oh! What shall I make? I have 1000 yards of it.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:23 AM | shower me with attention

Sunday, June 08, 2003

This is much better. Thanks, Andrew.

Beanpole is still dead though. :(

Why are you in Tavie's head? 5:44 PM | shower me with attention