still here

I have the day off today, and what did I do with it? Nothing! Nothing at all...

actually, I got a massage which was good, except there's something genuinely wrong with my neck and left shoulder, so I'm still sore and icky but feeling hopeful.

I'm supposed to write a Soc. paper, another paper in Italian and a paper for Latin class....and none of them have been touched. Good one, Alex....

oh! something else I did: bought my ticket for Spring break! I'm going home for spring break!! I'm mostly happy about that - it'll be weird to be living in the same house with my family and my significant person and balancing all of them with friends, but we'll figure it out. At least my family likes him and he likes them and we did this in January, so I don't know why I'm worried.

I'm rambling.
And procrastinating.
ciao.

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My sister's cat, Mud, was hit by a car yesterday. She called to tell me last night a little while after they found out - she says they're going to bury him under one of the trees in the yard or buy a plant to put over him.

I'm sad for her, because he's the first pet that has ever died in our family and he was more hers than anyone else's.

bastilla, orphaned animals and vaginas

Last night I went to a Moroccan restaurant with a couple of friends and then went with Alyssa to get her lip pierced. It looks rather sexy, but she can't really move it yet - I can't wait until it's healed up and she gets a smaller ring and lets me touch it!
It's freezing here - probably 25 degrees last night when we were hanging out - but we got ice cream and ate it while we moseyed on home like it was the middle of summer. If any of you ever come visit me out here I'm taking you to this ice cream place - rumor has it it was the original version of Ben & Jerry's, and it's really good.
This morning I got up at 6:45 after being up until 3 talking on the phone (!) and drove around for an hour with Christina and Mio looking for an animal shelter that we never found - that sucked, but it meant that I could come home and have a nap before I had to work for 3 hours and then do all my homework before I go to the Vagina Monologues tonight!

life is good. I need more coffee.

taking the hint

Have you ever decided that someone just plain doesn't like you? What was your basis? Did you use your razor-sharp intuition, or did you call them several times in succession, realizing after the 5th call that they had caller ID and were intentionally not picking up?

Have you ever decided someone hated you and learned later that you were wrong?

That happens to me often. Ask Dave and Artec and half of my ex-coworkers from the Red Mill. Turns out they all just have a talent for simulating austerity. Or they're austere but friendly - I don't really see those two qualities as harmonious, but it's possible.

How do you deal when one of your SO's friends seems to dislike you? Especially when your SO goes out of his way to get you two in the same place/conversation, and the friend seems to be making an effort to be warm - rather than warmth just coming naturally? No, I'm not looking for advice here - I don't need all of his friends to like me.

I'm not usually willing to be pushy or nonneutral enough to really give people the opportunity to say they don't like me unless I feel like being abrasive; I tend to try to read how a person is responding to me and behave in a way that I imagine fits with what they want from me. The end result: lots of nebulous acquaintances, very few friends who really know me.

That's kind of OK.

Have you ever known someone who read you selections from their journal? And not just the poems, the real stuff?

I witness this with wonder and confusion.

I'd like to know: if you're showing me these pages - where do you keep your secrets?