Journal

For those of you on Friendster… yes it is the Stephanie that’s in my friends list on Friendster.

Yesterday I went with Stephanie K. (I’m putting her last initial lest someone become confused and think I’m writing about myself) to the Indiana State Museum. Cool place. The pendulum from the old state museum is there, but it doesn’t have the same presence that it did in the old building, where it was in the main lobby. But it’s still cool. I was snapping pictures of it, and I’m wishing now I had taken a picture of Stephanie while she was standing next to it. But I was so distracted by her all day that I forgot about taking a picture. After the museum we came back and spent time together at my house. It’s funny, we both made CDs for each other. I like hers better; it’s songs that we heard on our first date.

Tuesday night I went out with Stephanie K. to see “13 Going on 30.” That was a fun little movie.
Wednesday, I did some gardening. Thursday morning, I hung around the house because the phone guy was coming to add phone jacks to the house. He told me I needed to have the Alarm guy come and redo the alarm wiring in the telephone box, because it was done badly. So I called the alarm company, and spend Thursday afternoon waiting for the alarm guy. He reworked the wiring for the phone and reset the delay on the back door, so my alarm works correctly. He also asked me out on a date. I told him I was seeing someone. Turns out, I am, so I wasn’t lying. I went out to Iaria’s Italian Restaurant with Stephanie K. for dinner. Eventually we got around to telling each other that we liked each other.

Head over heels
Where should I go
Can’t stop myself
Outta control
Head over heels
No time to think
Looks like
The whole world’s out of sync
Been running so hard
When what I need is to unwind
The voice of reason
Is one I left so far behind
I waited so long
So long to play this part
And just remembered
That I’d forgotten about my heart
Head over heels
Where should I go
Can’t stop myself
Outta control
Head over heels
No time to think
Looks like
The whole world’s out of sync

Healthy baby mouse created from two female eggs with no male genetics. Woo hoo! When does it work for people??

Tonight I’m hosting the book club night for our reading group at work.
On Saturday, I’m hosting the girls game night/pitch in at my house.
On Friday, May 14th, I’m hosting the regular lesbian monthly pitch-in at my house.
And on Sunday, May 16th, I’m hosting the Lesbian book club at my house.
I’m so happy to have my living room.

I know this is totally a privacy violation, but I don’t care, because it’s funny.
From: Stacy Mineart
Date: April 14, 2004 3:22:22 AM EST
To: Steph Mineart
Subject: Hey
Ok, ok I know I haven’t emailed yet but this time I have a legitimate excuse!� No sooner had I torn myself away from ebay (no easy task, I can assure you!) when my computer went to blue screen, restarted, and told me it couldn’t find it’s hard disk.� “Think!” I said, “Where did you last have it?”, but it was no good.� When I called the pc support line the man kept saying “Oh no!”, which I didn’t feel was a good sign.� So now my computer is in for repair and I’m forced to come into work early if I want to email.� The good news is that it all happened the day before the warranty ran out.� (Much to PC World’s chagrin, I think)
All is going fairly well.� I have a car now (woo hoo!) which is a 91 Chevy Nova (or Vauxhall Nova if you live in England) and it goes really well except for this manual choke thing I can’t get the hang of.� So now I don’t have to take the bus, and instead I drive at really silly times of day so I don’t hit much traffic because these English people drive like nuts.� I understand why Chevy Chase couldn’t get off the roundabout.�
We have a black bunny (don’t know if I had told you that), a white cat, and a white dog.� It means no color of clothing is safe during shedding season.� Mabel (bunny) has an indoor house and an outdoor house and runs around all day via the cat flap.� Recently she discovered that we have a bedroom and that this is where all her sources of cuddling go at night.� So last night she piled onto the bed with us, which was great until the sun came out.� Then she decided to do the tazmanian devil thing and all the hippity-hopping which was so cute during the day was substantially less so when she did it on our heads at 4:30 in the morning.��She also�luuuuvvvvvs pinkie (the cat) and�was chasing him around, so when I rolled over to fend off the inevitible fisticuffs they were both�blinking up at me (looking like good and evil in their black and whiteness),�convinced that movement on my part�must indicate the�inevitable feeding of breakfast.� Bunny then proceeded to pick up my alarm clock in her teeth and throw it out of reach so I couldn’t hit snooze again.� When I still didn’t get up, she went in the corner and (this is a housetrained rabbit, by the way) began to drop bunny pellets until I got up.� Little buttmunch.� Ollie kept snoring through it, and Pinkie looked at me like “Can I really not eat her now?”
So thats pets.� Still looking for jobs, money and personal fulfillment.� I’m wondering, if I were to start where I am now, with only�general computer literacy and some basic networking training, what would I need to do if I wanted to work my way up to a job like yours?
[Note from steph: I e-mailed her back that it wouldn’t take much and she should totally look into it. Although I really think she should write comedy for a British TV show. Or better yet, write comedy for an American adaptation of a British TV show, since they manage to f*&% that up over here pretty well.]
Anyway, best go because co-workers are coming in now.
Stacy