September 2004

I wouldn’t vote for Bush . Got a political kid in your life? Get them a sweet little t-shirt. Alternately, Mommy wants a new President.

You know you want it.

I had an excellent game of Scrabble last night. I scored a bingo (used all seven tiles) on a triple word score. :D Yes, it’s über-geeky, but I was stoaked. I think my game play is improving. I don’t have time to study word lists, but I think my strategy is better. If you like Scrabble, check out Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis. Again, I show my inner geek.

Also, while listening to City Arts & Lectures on NPR, I got to hear a poet by the name of Billy Collins. Gah, so funny. :D He was appointed Poet Laureate in 2001, and created the website Poetry 180, which is a poem for every day of the school year. A lovely idea, making poetry more accessible to students.

In any case, his poems are most excellent. The one I enjoyed the most does not appear to be online (and I can’t remember the exact title). However, two others I quite enjoyed are online to read: The Lanyard and Litany (a fantastic little mockery of the typical love-struck poem). Go and read.

I worked the back-breaker shift today. 5pm to 1am…we’re doing a floor move, where we prep for the fall/winter season by rearranging departments. And then I head back tomorrow, to work at 9am. This is an improvement over the original shift I was supposed to work, which started at 7am. /me dies

Despite this, I managed to talk on the phone to no less than five people in the first hour I was at work. Oh I’m a busy little bee. Two of those calls were actually work related! And then I got paid to talk to Audrey for about 30 minutes, which is excellent. Even more excellent as the last time I heard Audrey’s voice was probably close to four years ago. Whee! (Yes, it’s true, all the old friends are crawling out of the woodwork.) She’s still fabulous. I must head out to Vermont soon. She’s a-gonna be a doctor!

Yesterday, Bryan and I *finally* got our DVD storage rack from IKEA. (Click to see a pic…the one on the left.) IKEA has been holding out on us…we’ve been trying to buy this rack for six months now. This time, we tricked IKEA. We didn’t go to buy that; we’ve long since given up on it. Instead, we went for table legs, which were out of stock. Oh! But the DVD rack was there! Clearly we outsmarted IKEA! HA!

Microsoft Warns of Critial Flaw

No really. Images. That’s right. Pornographic pictures can now attack your computer. I think their Cycle of Crap has nearly come full circle.

Well, Angel Season 4 is out on DVD. So I surfed over to Amazon to see when the final season of Buffy is going to be available.

The answer? Apparently the twelfth of never.

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Bryan and I had a fantastic time in Capitola. We didn’t do too much, really. Ate a lot of good food, went for a walk at Wilder ranch, and lazed around on the beach. And then this morning I woke up and was incapacitated. I can’t turn my head, or look up or down very well. Argh. I made it through about two hours of work today, then left, got acupunture, and have been sitting here, slightly less pained, for several hours since.

I actually got four days in a row off. Clearly I’ve used my scheduling miracle for the year, and will expect to work on both the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. ;) Bryan and I are spending the next two and a half days in Capitola, hopefully getting good weather and relaxing for a bit.

So I meme and don’t feel guilty. (Stolen from Robbie who stole from someone else.)

Five Things You May Not Know About My Time in School are:
1. I zapped the circuits in my “pod” on the last day of fourth grade by putting a paper clip into an electrical socket out of boredom. :/ All the clocks stopped and the lights went out.
2. I went into college as a physical therapy major and came out with two BAs in English and Film.
3. I still have all the notes that my friend Hedyeh and I ever wrote each other in junior high.
4. My junior high basketball team only lost two games in three years.
5. In high school I was the uber-dork…I played basketball, was in the band, and was in drama club.

Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I love my job.
2. I’ve sold snowboards for three different companies.
3. My first job was selling rubber stamps and sundry supplies when I was 15.
4. Two years in Japan proved to me that “team teaching” is an oxymoron.
5. While a Supplemental Instructor for a college class, I ended up getting my lead professor canned for exposing his lack of faith in the course.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. It’s where I met Bryan.
2. I have heaps of online friends who are also RL friends.
3. I met Jess online (when I was active in the online X-Files community) who is now mom to Henry Pipkin, World’s Cutest Child.
4. I moderate at The MacObserver’s forums and founded and op at #macobserver (irc.macobserver.com).
5. I’m probably nicer online than I am in person.

Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. It’s super close to where I grew up.
2. I’m 30 minutes to the beach, 45 minutes to San Francisco, and 4 hours to Lake Tahoe.
3. Though I technically live in San Jose, if I tripped in one direction or another, I could fall down in Los Gatos or Campbell.
4. Bryan thinks our town shuts down too early.
5. There are more good places to eat than I can possibly keep up with.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I’m not as nice as you think I am.
2. I value honesty and humor.
3. I’m slightly insanely competitive.
4. I dwell on things.
5. I probably don’t care what you think.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life are:
1. My house is a bit of a mess.
2. Bryan and I don’t fight, ever. It’s probably an illness.
3. I miss my washer and dryer.
4. I enjoy vacuuming.
5. We don’t use our kitchen table for anything.

Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want are:
1. A puppy. Again.
2. To re-meet some old friends.
3. To get back into shape again, and play some basketball.
4. A high-tech coffee grinder.
5. To be independently wealthy.

Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know are:
1. I met Jess over a “mutual” love of X-Files fan fiction.
2. I still lurk in the XF fandom, though instead of participating in it, I’m now more like Pluto orbiting the Sun in my interest and visitation.
3. As much as I love the Whedonverse, I think the fandom is lame.
4. I can still tell you horribly obscure facts about XF, BtVS, AtS, and probably Days of Our Lives.
5. My OTP will *always* be Mulder and Scully.

Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. Must. Drink. Coffee.
2. Think about blogging, then promptly dismiss said thought.
3. Use Windows NT (at work).
4. I’m Bryan’s unpaid personal assistant. ;)
5. Try not to wear shoes.

Five Things You May Not Know that are Really Important to My Character are (not necessarily attributes I possess, but rather things I strive for, or value, and values in others):
1. honesty
2. curiosity
3. intelligence
4. loyalty
5. BEING ON TIME

[And now, a "new beginning" to what Sarah has deemed The Most Boring Blog Ever. Sayeth she who has what amounts to a static image.]

Now normally when I bitch about my knees, it’s because they hurt. On the inside. Damn joints and lack of cartilage and such. But in this case, I’ve sunburned my knees. Ow. I went out for Manager’s Mental Health Day yesterday. We had a great time, less the sunburn. We kayaked on open water from Aptos to Capitola and back. Thanks a heap to Dan from Current Adventures for supplying us with boats and paddles.

I, on the other hand, didn’t supply my own sunscreen on my knees. Everywhere else is merely tinged pink. However, my knees are ON FIRE. Oy.

After kayaking and lunch at the *only* mediocre taco joint in Santa Cruz, we went for a glorious twelve-ish mile mountain bike ride at Wilder Ranch. Oh the views! It was also, I might add, one of the most glorious days I’ve had out there in ages. Perfect sky, about 72F, and a slight breeze. :D

I may just have mountain bike fever.