Henry is laying on my lap and growling at me. I don't know what he expects me to do when he's using part of my body.

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Out of curiosity I even looked at the Earthlink job page last night. I couldn't even go be a Mindspring-boy if I wanted.

Poor Blogger-guy. I think he's the only one left, and had trouble with an upgrade last night.

Selina thinks I actually bruised my throat (inside). Leave it to me to find the strangest ways to hurt myself, like spraining my ankle walking across the living room floor.

After a lecture from my dentist, he told me I only have to floss on weekdays.

The QFC on the other end of Broadway plays Backstreet Boys (I think) as their store music, and I am doomed to have it stuck in my head the entire trip home. I'm trying to drown it out with Covenant.

Izzbot: what would happen if you painted Andrew with Izzy paint?
Izzbot: that'd certainly feel weird....

I just walked home from Broadway in my new boots, and my legs and feet are making me pay for it.

Sona: "Look out! It's the Wild Girls of Minor!"

Yay, the quest for nice boots is over! I found my knee-high, lace-up *normal* heel sized boots today. Let's not say anything about the fact that I technically can't afford them.

According to the "Is your girlfriend psycho?" test, I *am* psycho.

dilinger sent me this link of psycho ex-girlfriend voicemails. (I suppose I'm listening due to looking-at-car-crash syndrome.) The first message says "You better call me back because I'm done chasing you." Smart girl.....

Tuesday I wandered around a job fair. The last company I talked to seemed very interested in me, but now I can't any proof—info, business card—that they ever existed. I hope I didn't hallucinate this whole thing.

I just got that Snow White virus in French now:

C'etait un jour avant son dix huitieme anniversaire. Les 7 nains, qui avaient aid� 'blanche neige' toutes ces ann�es apr�s qu'elle se soit enfuit de chez sa belle m�re, lui avaient promis une *grosse* surprise. A 5 heures comme toujours, ils sont rentr�s du travail. Mais cette fois ils avaient un air coquin...

"you are surreal." – David

I Minxie I: would you use a bowl of yarn as a decorating accent?
Styrdyst: if i was a cat
I Minxie I: you are a cat
Styrdyst: oh yeah

http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/bhg/index.html

I'm happy to have finally replaced the song in my head, from the 'You Suck' song to Disintegration being sung by Razed In Black.

I kept telling Andrew he's not allowed to get any older than me, but he went and had his birthday today anyway.

I just figured out a few days ago that happy-clicker.com email works.

stari@happy-clicker.com
allyourbasearebelongtous@happy-clicker.com
squish-the-moose@happy-clicker.com

stari: i'm depressed over the state of my boots
pete: Your what??!?
me: my everyday black boots that are trying to kill me.. sneakily
pete: Oh, boots. I thought it said boobs. Sheesh. Trying to give me a heart attack? :P

I just glanced at the headline, "Hijackers Free Women, Children in Saudi Arabia," and felt guilty for automatically being one of the 'safe' ones on that situation, just by being female. Releasing just children would be no good without anyone to take care of them, so women are assumed the care givers. Why not 'Parents and Children'?

Of course this would just lead to asking why parented-life is superior to un-parented life. You just can't win.

I have a dentist appointment coming up today... I hate dentist appointments (of course, who doesn't?) When I was little I thought dentists could read your entire brushing history just looking at your teeth (and see that night you skipped last month), probably because they could always see right through the 20 times I brushed my teeth the two days before my appointment.

Styrdyst: ?
Izzbot: !
Styrdyst: ?
Izzbot: !
Styrdyst: ?
Izzbot: !
Styrdyst: ?
Izzbot: !
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Izzbot: !
Styrdyst: ?
Izzbot: !
Styrdyst: i said, ?

I wouldn't want to be made of Jell-O.

Back the Net Day is encouraging people on April 3 to support the "internet economy" by avoiding offline establishments and doing something (buy, donate, chat) online.

I think they're missing the point. Most "offline establishments" aren't in competition with the internet. If I go to the grocery store, I'm not going to spend $75, the minimum to make homegrocer.com worthwhile, or even $5 at the convenient store, the minimum Kosmo.com order. No chat room or entertainment web site is going to replace meeting friends in the real world. For the people who really care about this sort of thing, it won't be much different than any other day...

It also asks you to "alert 10 friends" in typical chain letter fashion.

A while back a really obvious virus came across one of my mailing lists a few times, always from "haha@sexyfun.net" with an intro story about Snow White's 18th birthday. A couple days ago I got the same virus in Spanish.

Faltaba apenas un dia para su aniversario de de 18 a�os. Blanca de Nieve fuera siempre muy bien cuidada por los enanitos. Ellos le prometieron una *grande* sorpresa para su fiesta de complea�os. Al entardecer, llegaron. Tenian un brillo incomun en los ojos...

I wonder what "enano porno.exe" translates to.

I'm starting to think of Misha as like a cat; she was in the same place I left her when I went out, only in a different position.

IT'S GIRL SCOUT SEASON!

"Thank you for supporting the Girl Scouts."
Thank you for supporting my thin mint addiction.

This is much too funny..

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
SWM 24, long brown hair (but otherwise comely) college
education. I've led a boring & interesting life. You
know what you are doing. Somebody set up us the bomb.
2839

The sun's magnetic field has flipped.

I love the subtle anti-Microsoft references in my Javascript book.

document.write("You're not running Netscape Navigator--maybe you should?")

'In this case, the "Eat at Joe's" banner takes you to negrino.com, "Drink more Java" goes to sun.com, and "Heartburn?" goes to microsoft.com. No editorial comments implied, of course.'

Another stolen quote that seemed appropriate: "Yesterday the earth was shaken and today I'm wondering if I want to rent a movie or not."

Styrdyst: there, check happy-clicker
Izzbot: yep
Izzbot: (you did exactly what I thought)
Izzbot: but, we're both twisted that way
Izzbot: :)

Izzbot: yay!
Izzbot: knowing you, you'd probably put that up on Happy Clicker

There, didn't want to disappoint him. ;)