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Happy Canada day !!!

Picture courtesy of my mom, who's up North now at the Stratford festival.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 4:48 PM | shower me with attention

Friday, June 30, 2006

I'm going to forward-post this as if it's already Friday because I plan to be asleep before midnight (ha ha ha), or at least off the computer, but I can't let this day go by without commemorating it: today is the 10th anniversary of the day I met one of my best friends and my mentor, Adrienne. I had known her for a few months through the newsgroup when my family took my two best friends, my sister and me to Toronto where we planned to meet Ade (and another guy, Gary, who actually turned out to be kinda weird. I wonder whatever happened to him.)

Knowing Ade has changed my life in such wonderful ways. I can't believe it was a decade ago. I'm all old now.

It's also the 10th anniversary of the day I first met Dave. That also came to have a profound effect on my life in wonderful, unexpected, and endlessly delightful ways. I wouldn't be here right now living the life of an independent, vaguely satisfied adult-type person if it weren't for those two beautiful people.

I love you guys.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:42 AM | shower me with attention

Thursday, June 29, 2006

I'm so ashamed that I wrote "the placebo affect" down there as if I don't know how to spell the word "effect". I'm going to leave the typo for posterity.

We get to wear jeans and sneakers to work tomorrow and Monday. I hope I remember. I always forget when it's a dress-down day, they come so rarely.

Good news, I don't have early menopause. Hurrah huzzah.

erin is in town, for sad reasons, but we got to have dinner with her tonight and it was so great to be all together again.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:40 PM | shower me with attention

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Sometimes when life gets me down, I remember that the voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse are married in real life.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:48 PM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I think that if I lived by myself in a smelly glass cage and crapped where I drank and bathed and beat up my posessions because I had nothing else to do, I'd be just about as useful to myself and to society as I am right now.

No offense, Progo. I swear I don't keep you around so I can see how good I have it in comparison to your sad, neglected turtle life. In fact, I feel sorry that you have such a rotten caretaker, and I'm also jealous that you have that lovely shell you can pull into whenever you feel threatened.

When I feel threatened I go vaguely catatonic, or get very sleepy. I think my metabolism slows down and I go into an almost hibernatory state, complete with glassy stare and clammy skin.

But mostly I just feel bored, like you, little turtle. I'm sorry you're not happy, but I can't afford a backyard with a pond for you to live in, and you'd be healthier if you ate what you're supposed to instead of just what tastes good.

Yeah, I know. Don't look at me that way.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:37 PM | shower me with attention

What the frickety fracking blue-eyed hell is wrong with my body?

For once I'm not complaing about its size or shape. I just want to know where all these mysterious aches and pains are coming from, and why I seem to have become infertile (menopausal? hormonally screwed up?) at the tender age of not-yet-27. (Last sign of my fertility: April? March? And no, I'm not pregnant.)

I have no more money for doctors (or DVDs or groceries) at the moment so let's just cross our fingers that I don't have some sort of weird malady and chalk it all up to lack of exercise.

The caffeine-deprivation is going okay. I thought I was gonna die of sleepiness this afternoon, but I had two cups of decaf and either the minimal (10 grams total) amount of caffeine in it or the placebo affect was enough to perk me up. Eventually.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 7:36 PM | shower me with attention

Monday, June 26, 2006

My back feels so much better now. A weekend of being a slug really fixed me. My sluggishness was due to the caffeine withdrawal, so I guess I can say that quitting coffee healed my back.

Now the trick is to get through tomorrow without drinking coffee. Cross your fingers for me. It's not a question of being irritable so much as a question of being awake.

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

Sunday, June 25, 2006

My parents came over for dinner tonight. It was nice. I'm getting more used to having my Dad around my friends and stuff, but it's still very uncomfortable because he is such a damn dope.

My mom is so sweet as pie, though. I love my mom. We all watched Blackadder together afterwards.

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