Okay kids, I used to delete this stuff, but why delete it, when I have plenty of room on my geocities account? Anyway, if you're bored as bored can ever be, you can read this. ~_^
1/15/02
I need a job. It sucks. It really sucks since I'm actually really really smart, and still I can't find a job. The test-prep stuff is only part time and it's on and off. Well anyway, in the world of the website, I put a new e-mail address since stupid Excite appears to have died. Enjoy.
9/11/01
Hi. I'm alive. If you're reading this, then you are too, and I'm really glad you're alive. Well, um. I talked to Brian Tracy (from the Prodigals) and he's okay, and so are the Prodigals, so that's something for you Prods fans.
If you're someone I know from somewhere, please e-mail me and tell me you're alive. Like Kate or Melissa or Erica or Katherine or Steve or the Long Island Sisters + 1. It's times like this, you realize how stupid it is to worry about something like a zit or whether or not anyone remembers your birthday. I'm just thankful that all my family and friends are okay and I hope so are yours. Again please email me and tell me you're okay. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
If you are maybe from a place where maybe people are glad that this happened... I just want to say that while I understand why other countries might be angry with our policies, and there are things I would like to change about them -- despite that, the people who died today weren't responsible for those policies and neither were the little kids whose parents aren't coming home today.
8/11/01
Well, I may or may not have come back to updating on a more regular basis. I think I have. I added a new musing, in any case.
6/27/01
Well, kiddies, I've been working on something else on the page that isn't linked up yet. That's why it looks like I haven't been updating. I haven't added any new musings or anything, no, but this'll be neat when/if I'm ever done. Oh, and unrelated: YOU CAN MAKE THOSE X-10 CAMERA ADS GO AWAY. You know all those "pain in your ass can't believe how annoying those stupid bloody pop-up ads for the mini camera are" ads? Yes, well I went to the website to complain about them and I found out you can actually turn them off for 30 days at a stretch. I recommend next time you get one popping up, go to the site and try it. I'm so happy about this.
6/21/01:
Okay, I just read an article about Australia's national anthem and it had me in tears, laughing. Let me say that though I have never been to Australia, I believe it to be one of the cooler countries out there, and that though I have met dozens and dozens of Australians in my life, only one or two have been unattractive or mean. In other words: Australians, in my experience, are sexy and neat. That said, I'm sorry, kids, but I must mock you now.
Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, has come under renewed attack as boring, outdated and meaningless to most Australians.... Sandy Macdonald, a government senator in the national parliament, has called for the 17-year-old anthem to be replaced "before we all go to sleep singing it."... "There are other wonderful tunes and words, such as Waltzing Matilda, which is quintessentially Australia," Macdonald told parliament late on Wednesday. Waltzing Matilda, a ballad about a sheep thief who jumps into a watering hole to escape police and drowns, is Australia's unofficial anthem and is sung at major sporting events.
5/27/01:
Hi guys -- Excite has been being a pain in the hind end and not letting me write back to any emails. So... if you're writing to me and I'm not writing back, um, that's not because I hate you, it's just that I can't write back. Excite is being annoying.
5/24/01: A quick question for you.
5/22/01: I found out today that Douglas Adams died last week. He was only 49 -- it was a heart attack. Oh, lord. This is a bad thing. That's the third author I've cared about who's died in my lifetime. I can't believe it about him, though. I mean, he was DOUGLAS ADAMS. Cult hero! He shouldn't be dead! He should be forever and ever anon doing the whole "how to fly" bit at conventions even when he hates it but there's that part of him that knows that obsession is the sincerest form of flattery.
In honor of Douglas, I will relate this passage to you:
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N-N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phoenetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
"What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get very excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practicioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Oisghian Zodahs."
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Read some of the weird words out loud if you don't get it at all.
5/3/01: Shut up! I'm listening to this! "...And it was all yellow..." ::dreamy sigh::
4/1/01: Well, if Mulder can come back from the dead, then I can start updating my website again. Also I seem to be in a little better health today. I'm getting a shot on Wednesday (Lyme's Disease vaccine) so um, pleh, let's hope I don't die. Or hurt someone else very badly.
2/20/01: I'm fixing up the site a little. You know, just noticing little things like alt-tags that aren't working, stuff like that -- and making my off-site links the kind of links that open in new windows. I'll eventually tackle the links list, but the mere thought of doing it makes me dizzy. Or is that the fumes coming through my window? Hmm. Anyway, my "about me" page is updated, because it's my favorite section.
I'm joking, kids.
2/11/01: I'm so hooked on a song that's so stupid I won't even mention it here. (note on 5/3/01: It was "Butterfly" by Crazytown.) It's embarrasing. I downloaded it off napster and put it on "repeat forever." Tee hee. My neighbors must love me, desu ne?
On a different note, here is my song page. The song files may or may not be working; my sister managed to download the Rum and Coke song, which she is a fan of. Hurrah for my sister! Anyway, my songs... They're just little ditties, so don't be disappointed if you spend years downloading them and then they're stupid. Really, don't hate me, because if you hated me, my heart would be broken.... Just like, let them download while you're doing other stuff anyway. Okay? :) Yay!
2/7/01: So I'm watching all my fansubbed episodes of Sailor Moon again. I don't know why. Clearly, I'm touched in the head. (Note: that link is to Hitoshi Doi's Sailor Moon page, the acknowledged best in class page. you don't need the japanese plug in to use the site, tho it's nice.)
On a totally unrelated note, why not hear me singing my Bitter Boogie? Perhaps you've read the Bitter Ditty, but I wrote a few more, utterly ridiculous verses, and set it to a rockin' beat. Um, yeah. Then I sat down with Daphne and made a big ass wav file. I wish it weren't a wav file, but my computer threatened to explode when I tried to convert it. It said, "Loretta, what do you think you're doing, Loretta, that's not very nice."
Note to the silly: this is a highly offensive song, if you're the easily offended type or maybe underage or something. If you have a brain, likely you'll think it's funny. But don't come crying to me if it burns your ears off. ::sigh::
1/18/01: I've started updating again. I still don't have any internet access at home, but I can take a minute here or there at work to give you guys a taste of my brain. In a nice way.
Andy says that, between me and him, we don't have enough readers to make a decent raft out of their frozen bodies. I said, Come on, man, you can make a fine raft out of six people. He's so skeptical. Really.
1/02/01: So I finally did most of the Wicca stuff. Woo-hoo! And then I signed up for the guestbook! Isn't this exciting?