I seem to have joined an imaginary band.

About mondayish my left ear got clogged up again. This happened the last time I as sick and lasted weeks after I got better. Andrew had finally convinced me to go to the doctor, sure I had another ear infection by then. The doctor basically told me there was nothing wrong and to eat hot soup. That same day as I was walking back to work the ear started popping and cleared up.

I'm not sick now and I've eaten hot soup.

This seems like a good time to push my book club again.

I know I was supposed to be banned from buying more books this month but I walked by a used book store in the U-District which was having a half-off sale. Nine books and $51 later... Considering book stores usually sell books for half off the full price anyway, I got a good deal for $200 worth of books. This time I really won't buy any more books until the end of the month.

God wants me to spam people.

The design is bad but the stories are funny—Etiquette Hell

Andrew sent me the 'Which OS are you?' quiz but I'm not telling what I got.

Lack of posting today but I was working on the comment script again.

Now if only I had time to type it. This week has been even busier than I expected.

Monday – Hacker game
Tuesday – Polyamory relationship discussion group
Wednesday – Selina came over
Thursday – Dinner with Jeremy
Friday – Ascension at the Wet Spot

Yesterday morning I was trying to send whatever good job karma I have saved up to Andrew for luck with the Wild Tangent job he's trying to get. About an hour later he called me to tell me the Earthlink call center is closing and he, and everyone else who works there, are losing their jobs. I really hope my good karma attempt didn't backfire.

I've been given random sushi!

I wonder how much it would cost to throw out all of my socks and buy all new ones. That's always been a fantasy of mine.

Work etiquette lesson for the day: If you're going to have a private conversation, have it somewhere private. Leaning against my cubical wall doesn't count even if you're talking low to indicate it's a private conversation.

Twice today it's happened to me.

I just burned my throat with instant mashed potatoes.

Andrew keeps telling me the internet can't be "broken" but we got an email from Drizzle today saying, "Last night, Friday, January 25, 2003, the Internet experienced a massive, worldwide Denial of Service attack. The attack was caused by a new computer 'worm' known as Sapphire which exploited a known vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL database server program. It is believed the worm originated in Asia or Europe, but its effects were felt around the globe."

I think it's hilarious that I dream commercials.

Styrdyst: izzy got eaten by the meeps and he's never been the same since
Michael at Peak: is it possible he was never the same to begin with?
Styrdyst: true

Today's selected search queries:

missionary position illustrated
where can i find information on how to attain pickup lines
beautiful legs & skirts
inflatable pen

I had no idea how much of a sadist Selina was being when she gave me her Chat Noir puzzle for Christmas. That evil evil thing is finally finished.

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Roe vs Wade though I didn't find out the exact date until today. If I had known I could have told people, "Happy freedom of choice day." Let's hope it lasts.

I'm about to fill up two notebooks at the same time. Both my journal and the purple notebook I use to write web site updates and various things to be typed later are down to one or two blank pages. I guess I'll throw the purple one out since there's no point in saving a bunch of things that have been published elsewhere though I never throw out notebooks. As for the journal, I have one page left and since I've written up to ten pages in one day I get to pick out a new one tonight.

Post-it note origami, for those who want that extra sticky challenge.

I feel incredibly stupid now. I brought my gym bag to work yesterday and remembered to bring music for the gym today. I was all set to finally go back to the gym but I forgot to put a CD in my MP3 player.

Another reason for me to not like mushrooms

I really have to learn to recognize the smell of burning plastic for what it is.

Tom has started saying to me when he brings the Canadians to be typed, "So what could you do with __x__ Canadians?"

Paul showed me an order today telling me I'd like it—the 'ordered by' was a girl named Izzie.

I went with Andrew to his gym yesterday so he could finally see the place as an incentive to go later. It was scary big and looked like a mass production assembly line kind of place with rows and rows of people moving simultaneously on the machines. Downstairs had all the weights and all the obligatory large intimidating looking muscular men. I'm glad I joined my little gym with women's area and non-intimidating-looking men downtown.

I spilled some soup on my desk and it landed in such a perfect splatter pattern that it seemed a shame to clean it up and lose the design. That was such a Fred Griffin way of thought. I bet he has spills and stains at home he refuses to clean up for that reason.

The TV was turned on to the news in the break room at work and I heard the intro to "First Alert Weather". The name and music make it sound like they're predicting out next blizzard. How dramatic can weather be? It's raining—it's Seattle! There are clouds—yeah, it's raining!

A reminder: the feminist book club and discussion group is up and running. I even have the description up on the subscription page finally. Maybe if I reword it to feminist discussion group and book club it won't be as intimidating to people who aren't necessarily interested in reading the books.

Shannon and Walker are getting major points for deciding to come over today and make me feel better after a really bad last week. We played Hacker with the plan to squish Jeremy but he won anyway.

It's not even out yet and the Segway is already banned on sidewalks.

Ted is trying to find a way to compliment my tall boots without any hidden meanings.

Styrdyst: paul doesn't like to be called a boy
I Minxie I: so call him a girl

Sour milk has to be one of the worst things to wake up to, and losing a whole bowl of cereal at that.

I'm listening to the techno remix of the Smurf song!

More obligatory search queries. These amuse me.

I've had multiple from variations on the royal tit watching society. "Sorting prozac" comes up again as well as someone still trying to figure out that earring thing, now "gay men earring code left ear". Theres, "free 2003 sanrio calendar"—I wish. And one for "pedophilea", ewww....

"Jurie Jeremiah Windvogel pleaded guilty on Monday to the pitiful crime of shoplifting a plastic vagina."

West Hollywood, California is going to ban declawing cats. My cat April was declawed when I was a kid and I always feel guilty about that when I hear the declawing debate even though I had no control over it at that age. I read lots of cat books growing up and when I found out how crewl declawing is (April often sat holding up one paw or the other though we don't know if it's related) I made sure my next cat Einstein stayed intact.

There's a guy trying to start an initiative that says Tim Eyman is a horse's ass. I especially like the poll with the article that says, "A Seattle man is pushing a ballot initiative on whether activist Tim Eyman is 'a horse's ass.' What do you think?" The yes's are winning. Guess which side I voted for.

Pete's grocery store has pieces of a cardboard cantaloupe box covering the front of the Playboy and Penthouse magazines next to the check stand. I know that covering them is intentional but I've always wondered if it was a conscious decision to use melon boxes.

I hate hearing people who say they need an SUV to feel safer. You need an SUV to feel safe now because of all the SUVs on the road!

Either I'm delusional or someone stole my newspaper at work overnight.

I've got more search requests:

1: print sanrio calendar 2003
1: hello kitty corset
1: sister in the shower
1: torturegotchi
1: roommate walking around naked
1: free sanrio 2003 calendars

Obviously a Sanrio theme going on today. Some more monthlies,

2: batz maru icons
2: hello kitty toilet seat cover
2: the royal tit watching ornithological society of britain
2: nationstates game
2: pointless clicker
1: cancer zodiac jpg pictures for html

Stari.org has one, 'why does god let bad things happen? poetry'

Posted on bareSquare, Poking the sanctity of human life with a stick and running.

VATICAN CITY, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Vatican told Catholic politicians on Thursday they must oppose laws on abortion, euthanasia and gay marriages and can not accept compromises on Church teachings when formulating policy or legislation.

I've labeled my Ravens, Raven(1) – Raven(x) in the order I met them. It's going to be easier than saying, 'counselor Raven' (formerly Mohawk Raven), 'artist Raven', 'Sarah's daughter Raven', 'Raven I haven't met', 'new Raven I haven't met'.

I picked up an order while I was concentrating on sorting paperwork and set it up on my tray upside down. Karla dared me to type it that way so I did.

I've suddenly realized how Andrew can say he blocks out his bad customers as soon as he gets off the phone and therefore can't tell me good stories.

Ellie brought me an order to type quick. She brought it back a minute later because she forgot the '/p' which indicates that it's a piece and expects you to type in the dimensions rather than defaulting to the full size. Even though I had to type how it was cut I didn't catch it because I've already forgotten anything to do with the part number by the time I've gotten to the next line.

Unfortunately, it's my job officially or not to catch salepeople's mistakes and they don't understand how I can miss something so obvious.

It's funny to see things going around work on paper that I'm used to seeing in email and on the web. Someone printed out that web site where the guy graded kids' artwork and it's being passed around.

I was asked last night to change a real name in the archive to an online nickname, which I've done. I should point out that if someone thinks I've posted too personal information let me know and I will change it.

For example, most people get strangely excited when I quote them, but Paul does not actually wear women's panties as far as I know. He only said something that sounded incriminating taken out of context. Actually it sounded pretty bad in context too.

On top of the fraud, this is just awful that someone would convince their child that they are dying. "Police arrested the parents and grandmother of a 7-year-old girl who was told she had leukemia as part of an apparent fund-raising hoax that netted about $10,000 in donations from well-wishers."

Gary keeps singing the song Don't Worry, Be Happy and getting it stuck in my head!

The same man who's trying to send us to war has declared Sancity of Human Life Day.

This was an ironic headline, Painkillers are Blamed for Headaches. I guess it supports those of us who avoid taking over the counter drugs.

Paul is still too easy to break. He's going to be asking about this Hello Kitty underwear thing for a while.

I'm having strange potatoes and soy sauce cravings.

After explaining the multiple Ravens:

Michael at Peak: see, i live in baltimore, you just can't be named raven here.
Michael at Peak: too many nevermore jokes.

I'm going to have to do another "If you love me you'll comment" post.

The Kikoman song with subtitles.

Andie sent me to asianmunchies.com where I found Lotte Toppo Chocolate which look just like the 'choco sticks' ones I used to get from Uwajimaya before they stopped carrying them. I may have found them again!

Mattel is discontinuing the Nimbus 2000.

I've got new search terms for my web site this month.

cancer zodiac jpg pictures for html
charge n go mini
lord of the peeps
shannon and sharon
can you lose weight if you stop drinking soda?
chococat pictures
vagina kitty poseurs
pokemon clicker
gay got neuticles

I can't belive I'm getting spam about the "PastaExpress".

I've realized one of the problems with my job is that I'm an extreme multitasker. I'm the most content at work when I've got orders to type with more coming in, sorting for billing being done between orders, and a couple non-time dependent tasks to do in my head. And since that doesn't take up all my mental capacity, I'm still thinking about personal projects while I work.

For some reason mashed potatoes in a cup must be eaten with a plastic fork.

Paul told me it's time to dye my hair again.

I forgot to write about my bus last night.

I went to Uwajimaya and then walked to the first bus stop for the 70. The bus was near but I rushed and was at the stop, obviously waiting, a good 30 seconds before it got there. The bus came, and kept on going. The driver saw me because he sort of waved as he went by. I didn't know what he was trying to say, maybe that he was going to stop up ahead, so I ran towards the end of the block. He sort of waved again and kept going. I ran nearly to the next stop where he still didn't stop.

The bus system is pretty useless when it doesn't actually pick up people!

I decided a handful of star-shaped rice crackers were breakfast. Seems a good reason to keep them around now.

Ack, this guy was trying to sell his family on E-Bay!

Sometime in the future Andrew is going to take a week off from girls to recover but he's promised to give me advance warning so I can plan for it. Now I'm trying to give everyone else advance warning that I'm going to need everyone to come spend time with me that week, especially days I'd normally see Andrew.

After watching A Walk on the Moon I've developed the theory that first generation girl movies about a girl finding a relationship. Second generation girl movies are about a girl in a relationship having an affair.

Here's some convincing spam:

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I want to file a complaint that Costco doesn't sell soy sauce in twenty gallon bottles.

Cunt, the book that gave me the idea to start the book club in the first place, is now in second edition!

I've finally gotten to the stats for happy-clicker so now I can find out all the fun stuff like what browsers people are using and what search terms people are using to get here. Search terms are my favorite.

charge n go cars
new year's quotes
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why do some colors make us feel happy and others angry?
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pictures of children say the pledge of the legence
calendar sanrio 2003
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new year quotes
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Andrew sent me nice-tits.org, "the official site of the Royal Tit-Watching (Ornithological) Society of Britain."

I just wrote a letter to my grandma so I can send her a picture of monarch butterflies I cut out of the newspaper. I mentioned going out for ice cream with Andrew and that sounds like such a young innocent date.

There's one person in my company that I can talk about geek toys with. He leaned over the cube wall and whispered, "My MP3 player is better than yours."

Overheard at work, "I'm having my own full moon."

Jason took me out for sushi last night.

When I told my mom about Andrew giving me a sushi rolling mat, I first had to explain to her that sushi isn't necessarily raw fish. Then I told her I have eaten raw fish sushi. When she asked why I told her I did it for the experience, so I would know what it's like. She told me the stove is hot, so I don't need to touch it to find out for myself.

Raw fish last night was messing with my head. It tastes good but then I'd think about what I was eating. But then it tasted good.

I'm working again to get my feminist book club started. I've set up a mailing list with the intent that planning can be done there as well as discussion between meetings, including people who aren't Seattle based. It's my first mailing list. You can subscribe here.

IE crashed last night losing the job application and day's posts I was working on so I let it wait until today.

Winter starts in my head as soon as it starts getting cold. While winter technically started only recently, Solstice says the days are getting longer. It's no longer completely dark when I leave work and not pitch black when I get home. Walking home this evening the sky was such a perfect gradient of blues.

I like Shannon because she lets me be all insane to her.

Your Evil Spleen: Well, I can send you magical feelgood rays or I can send you Tylenol with Codeine... which do you prefer? ;)

I called into work sick today because of a migraine I had late last night into this morning. I feel like a commercial just saying the word 'migraine'. I always thought people either *got* them, as a condition, or don't and since I don't...

Jesus 'healed using cannabis'

So I've never had a movie rental card. It's one of those right of passage things, like getting a driver's license, that I've just never done, though renting a movie at least doesn't involve getting someone else to let you practice on their VCR first. Considering that this was my big plan when I was single, it's certainly been over two years that I've been planning. The problem is I've always had boyfriends to rent the movies.

So tonight Andrew took me to Blockbuster and I signed up. It was good timing too because they give you a free rental with a new membership, which I didn't realize until we got there. I've rented my first movie, A Walk On the Moon, which I have until next Wednesday.

I've had a bag of Safeway rolls sitting on my counter for a while now without them going moldy. I wonder how many preservatives these things have.

I fixed the comments! I found it in the forums that the people's settings got changed for some reason so I set it back.

branchstudios: ah, you're taunting me. i'm all set to go to bed and you send me off with images of socklessness!

I was obviously a bit behind on my typing. I have/had four web sites to update—happy-clicker, bareSquare, Squishymoose and stari.org. When I get more time to type there will probably be a few new web journal entries, appropriately dated.

With all the new airport security, someone still fell asleep on the job!

If someone saw me walking back to work they might think I was stealing newspapers. I bought a Sunday paper and both Mondays. They all had articles on the front page I wanted to read!

I brought my Susan Seddon Boulet Shaman calander (same artist as the Goddess calendars I buy every year) and my Moon Dragon painting into work. If I decorate does that mean I'm committed to this place?

Andrew doing bad things to me in my dreams is one thing, but last night he reached over in his sleep and pulled the blankets off of me (just me).

Izzy and Gwen went to bring back snow while we were at the museum and everyone had a snowball fight in the parking lot.

"I want happy gods." – Shannon.

Selina, Shannon, and I went to the Asian Art Museum to see the Hello Kitty exhibit. It wasn't anywhere near as interesting as they made it sound though. I kept wanting to say, "I have more Sanrio in my bedroom."

Or as Shannon said I should say, "My boyfriend has more Hello Kitty than this!

Rice cakes kill six in Japan

I posted an article to bareSquare, a rant about Bush pushing marriage.

There was more I wasn't able to work into the article:

Not only is the government pushing marriage, they also dictate what kind of relationship that should be (1 man, 1 woman, monogamous.)

Not only are Andrew and I violating the Republican ideal, we aren't even providing any mindless entertainment for the masses. What kind of Jerry Springer show would this make?

<confession>I slept with your roommate...
Yeah? I already knew that.
*hug*

I got scarred walking through the billing department today when I realized my dream job is now some little office job shuffling paperwork as long as I get to type things into a real computer. I'm afraid I've forgotten to design and code for a living and I didn't have much of a base to begin with.

Wheee, work politics. Steve is retiring today. There's a party for him tonight which I'm not going to because spending a Friday night with my co-workers isn't my idea of fun. A couple weeks ago an envelope went around collecting money for the party. I didn't know how much is appropriate for these things but I know Karla gave $20 since I got it second. You were supposed to put your name on a list after donating. I didn't give any because I didn't want everyone thinking me cheap since I only had a dollar or two in cash on me. Today there was a card for him going around to be signed and I heard that only people whose names were on that list were allowed to sign it.

Yes I've had many possessed inatimate objects find their way into my life.

I printed out an old Sinfest comic to destroy Ted's image of Dilbert. I told him it didn't print too well because my printer is possessed by the ghost of a dead dot-com. After explaining my printer he completely believes me.

It won't print black, sometimes. It won't print black from this web site, for example, but proves it's perfectly capable of it by printing the added header/footer information in perfect black. It wouldn't print yellow for a while. either

Sometimes it likes to spit out every page in the tray blank. Sometimes it likes to do that but print a fine gray line on each page first. It won't believe it has paper at all unless the stack is a certain height.

It still needs a name.

My bus pass is possessed. Okay, "my" bus pass is possessed. I have Andrew's Earthlink flexpass which is good for a year but after a few months of everyday use the strip wears out and stops making the good beep when I use it. It's been making the bad buzz for over half a year. When I got off the bus yesterday it beeped. About one time a month it decides to be good.

Air Force pushes 'go pills'

[Thailand] Women to Get a Valentine's Day Boost

The Lord of the Peeps

It doesn't look like anyone wants to comment while being called 'poseurs'. I found another comment script but it still doesn't do what I want. I'm looking at the code to see what I can do.

I put in my vacation request today (as planned, first of the year) for around the last weekend in April. Now the goal is that by Convergence I won't be working here to take advantage of it.

It looks like I'm not going to be going for the 401(k), decided by forgetting to fill out the paperwork. And as Karla says, it would make me feel like a lifer.

I spent $6.__ on pads last night. That was the big pack on sale but usually it's almost $5 for the normal sized pack, not on sale (where they've lowered the number as they raised the prices some time back.) I was annoyed by this because I can't think of a single equivalent product men have to buy. Sure they are expected to shave, but so are women, and more surface area at that. We get the same disposable razors and shave gel in a can, repackaged with a pink label and floral scents, and a higher price. (At least stores have gotten better about that, probably because of the side by side comparison.)

In fact I can't think of any genderless product that's the same either. Toothpaste? Soap? It won't make the people around you happy but you can go without for a day or two. Women have no choice but to pay whatever price they're holding us hostage for to get our tampons and pads or to bleed through our clothes.

I'm eating organic "lite" Cheetos. (Well, organic "lite" cheese corn puffs, but 'Cheetos' is a generic word to me.)

My first lesson of the new year: Beware of what you think is a bowl of entirely red M & Ms.