Hopeful Signs

"Victor said to not contact him first (he should contact me), it's some sort of weird territorial upper hand thing. Apparently the first one to lose the upper hand is the one who's first to talk about it. You have to appear unobsessed and in control until a few days pass, and then it's okay to be first." -Me, yesterday

I've spent an entertaining day with Sarah- getting books, looking for our classrooms, looking for cute guys, watching movies, shopping, etc. And going on and on and on incessantly about guys. I was maybe worse than usual, griping stuff. "Man, I just hope I don't fall for him...since I normally do it so fast, maybe I'll be okay?" Sarah said no, you'll do it. I started whining in agony. She said to keep it casual and then dump him like guys do to us. Basically we were all guy-chasy. She wanted to look for her old cute TA's office, she suggested I do something similar (no, I didn't).

Sarah'd had this crush on an English guy in engineering last year, and she thought she found his e-mail and sent him something...and she checked e-mail here incessantly hoping he'd write. He didn't. I checked e-mail/newsgroup as often for the same reason (albeit different person). And surprise, things moved along today.

First, I checked e-mail (working, but nothing from him) and newsgroup this a.m. He'd posted there though, and I put up a response to it. At least, that's what I thought.

> Yeah, but it's 1999 now, and if you turn that upside down, it has a '666'
> in it, so we're clearly already doomed, and it'll never really be an
> issue.

Doomed, schmoomed, who cares? Everyone'll be busy partying anyway.

> Just keep an eye out for that antichrist feller with all the charisma,
> that charges of naughtiness never stick to...

Ohmigod, BILL????
Jennifer

You know you mailed this instead of posting, right? :)

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jennifer Diane Rutherford wrote:
}> Yeah, but it's 1999 now, and if you turn that upside down, it has a '666'
}> in it, so we're clearly already doomed, and it'll never really be an
}> issue.
}Doomed, schmoomed, who cares? Everyone'll be busy partying anyway.

Well, I sure will be. 

}> Just keep an eye out for that antichrist feller with all the charisma,
}> that charges of naughtiness never stick to...
}Ohmigod, BILL????

Gates or Clinton? :)

-- 
Remington

>You know you mailed this instead of posting, right? :)

Ooops. Nope, I didn't. (Wondered why it didn't come up on ng though...)
>
>On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jennifer Diane Rutherford wrote:
>}> Yeah, but it's 1999 now, and if you turn that upside down, it has a '666'
>}> in it, so we're clearly already doomed, and it'll never really be an
>}> issue.
>}Doomed, schmoomed, who cares? Everyone'll be busy partying anyway.
>
>Well, I sure will be. 

Somehow that's not surprising.
>
>}> Just keep an eye out for that antichrist feller with all the charisma,
>}> that charges of naughtiness never stick to...
>}Ohmigod, BILL????
>
>Gates or Clinton? :)
>
Notice that I DIDN'T specify which...=)
Jennifer

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jennifer Rutherford wrote:
}>}Doomed, schmoomed, who cares? Everyone'll be busy partying anyway.
}>Well, I sure will be. 
}Somehow that's not surprising.

Nope.  So, what'cha up to?  Getting ready for classes?

}>}> Just keep an eye out for that antichrist feller with all the charisma,
}>}> that charges of naughtiness never stick to...
}>}Ohmigod, BILL????
}>Gates or Clinton? :)
}Notice that I DIDN'T specify which...=)

I thought perhaps it was intentional... :)

>Nope.  So, what'cha up to?  Getting ready for classes?

Not really. Other than buying books today, Sarah and I have been roaming around Petco staring at 
the lizards/mice/hamsters/birds/fish and whining about how we want some, checking e-mail (she's 
expecting something) and talking on the phone. In other words, goofing off until she goes off to 
join the Army or something tonight... What are you up to?
>
>}>}> Just keep an eye out for that antichrist feller with all the charisma,
>}>}> that charges of naughtiness never stick to...
>}>}Ohmigod, BILL????
>}>Gates or Clinton? :)
>}Notice that I DIDN'T specify which...=)
>
>I thought perhaps it was intentional... :)
>
Yep, it was. The two most feared Bills in the civilization (if you can call it that), we can't be
exactly sure which of 'em is the Antichrist yet, I think...probably Gates, 'cause he can screw up
all our computers and then AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Jennifer

What are you up to?

Uh, going out to Rumsey to get some of the enormous amount of crud filling
my apartment out of it.  But I'm free tomorrow, if you'd like to go do
something... :)
-- 
Remington 

And once again, I'm thinking "Ai yi yi, I'm gonna go nuts!"

The old heart's pumping, and it's not from nervousness over school...boing, boing, boing... maybe I'll wait for Sarah to come back before I respond (she's thinking about being in Army Reserves and went to an interview). No, that's an excuse, I should just say it... yes, and where? Hmmm. Wonder what he wants to do? What is there to do when I have school tomorrow morning? Unfortunately, early? Movie? In Davis, what else is there to do? I am soooo going to get into trouble...

>On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jennifer Rutherford wrote a lot of crap leading up to:
What are you up to?

>Uh, going out to Rumsey to get some of the enormous amount of crud filling
>my apartment out of it.  But I'm free tomorrow, if you'd like to go do
>something... :)

Sure... =) I'm free after two or so (my class schedule is kinda odd), I think, so...what's there 
to do in Davis on a weekday? Movies probably. Any suggestions either way?
Jennifer


1:24 a.m. Yep, I'm still up. Sarah came in just as I found this e-mail from Remington and was responding to it.

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jennifer Rutherford wrote:
}>Uh, going out to Rumsey to get some of the enormous amount of crud filling
}>my apartment out of it.  But I'm free tomorrow, if you'd like to go do
}>something... :)
}Sure... =) I'm free after two or so (my class schedule is kinda odd), I
}think, so...what's there to do in Davis on a weekday? Movies probably. Any
}suggestions either way?

Uh, movies are good.  Smoothies are good.  Other stuff is good, too.  By
the way, do you have my Davis phone number?  It's (#).   And my
Rumsey number is (#).  But I'm not either of those places right now,
because I got lazy and didn't go to Rumsey, but went to Melissa and Yamara
and Bill's to watch movies.  But I'll be home later, like midnightish, if
you're up and bored and want to call me...

-- 
Remington

>Uh, movies are good.  Smoothies are good.  Other stuff is good, too. 

So you're undecided too, huh? =) I like smoothies, but it seems kinda cold for one though =(

 By
>the way, do you have my Davis phone number?  It's 758-3846. 

Yeah, had that somewhere. For once I was good about writing down numbers in my phone book and not
on papers that get thrown around my desk.

  And my
>Rumsey number is 796-4244.  But I'm not either of those places right now,
>because I got lazy and didn't go to Rumsey, but went to Melissa and Yamara
>and Bill's to watch movies. 

You check e-mail _everywhere_, don't you? =)

 But I'll be home later, like midnightish, if
>you're up and bored and want to call me...

Well, if I'm home (we were supposed to go over to my ex-neighbor's after Sarah gets back from the
recruiter thing, but well, it's 9:20 and she's not home, so who knows what's going on), I'll 
see...I should be going to bed early if I have class at 9 (waaaah!), but, well, yeah right, 
probably not! I'll try if I'm home and up and stalling around.
Jennifer 

Isn't that cute? He was checking e-mail at someone else's house just to see if he heard from me? Awwww.

Didn't happen...wound up being at the guys' for hours. Mike brought a blender back, so therefore he
and Sarah want to have a drinking party on Friday night. Well, party in like there will probably 
be 4-5 people there...(ah, engineering nerds) and they got into fighting over who to invite. Mike
wanted to fix Sarah up with some friend of his, Brian, and she wasn't so sure, and it went on
for awhile...Mike wants to tell Brian that there's two available women there. I am not pleased with
that, as I don't remember this guy as being cute and I don't care to be fixed up. Yes, the idea of
Remington being invited came up. I'm not sure if I want to do that...my friends are more uh, juvenile
than his friends...and well, why get 'em all attached? Well, get Sarah all attached, she's pretty
psyched here. Then again, since she's decided to join the military she's psyched about everything! I
said I'd think about it. I mentioned it to Remington in an e-mail (later, folks), we'll see if he
has any comments on it and go from there, I guess. Well, I met his friends, so...


Anyway, I was going to attempt to call him at midnight...however, due to drinking party fighting
I didn't get back until about 12:35. I called...it rang four times...and no, I didn't leave a
message, I thought "Oh, he probably went to bed by now" and hung up. Juvenile, I know. So I check
e-mail and found one from him.


}>Uh, movies are good.  Smoothies are good.  Other stuff is good, too. 
}So you're undecided too, huh? =) I like smoothies, but it seems kinda cold
}for one though =(

Hmm.  Maybe ice cream, then?  :) Or, more sensibly, hot chocolate for you,
and coffee for me. :)  Or, if you like Greek food, there's a pretty good
restaurant of that type here.

}>By the way, do you have my Davis phone number?  It's (#). 
}Yeah, had that somewhere. For once I was good about writing down numbers in
}my phone book and not on papers that get thrown around my desk.

You mean, that's the wrong way to do it?  Gods, if I wrote all my phone
numbers down in one place, I'd be sure to lose it. :)  That doesn't mean
I'm supposed to have your number somewhere, does it? :)

}>And my
}>Rumsey number is (#).  But I'm not either of those places right now,
}>because I got lazy and didn't go to Rumsey, but went to Melissa and Yamara
}>and Bill's to watch movies. 
}You check e-mail _everywhere_, don't you? =)

Nope, not in Rumsey.  Or in Santa Cruz, usually.  But I did check it
within an hour of leaving your parent's house the other morning... Thank
the gods Kinko's doesn't take New Year's off. :)

} But I'll be home later, like midnightish, if
}>you're up and bored and want to call me...
}
}Well, if I'm home (we were supposed to go over to my ex-neighbor's after
}Sarah gets back from the recruiter thing, but well, it's 9:20 and she's not
}home, so who knows what's going on),

Recruiter thing?  What kinda cult is she joining?  Military?  Sororitary?

}I'll see...I should be going to bed
}early if I have class at 9 (waaaah!)

There really oughta be a law against that.  Which days?  Just MWF, or all
of them, or what?

}but, well, yeah right, probably not!
}I'll try if I'm home and up and stalling around.

Teehee.  Well, I'm home now.  Oh, it's almost midnight, so no diff. :)

}The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has- 
}I'm not kidding. -Holden Caulfield

How d'ya think they got rich enough to go there?

-- 
Remington 
  "I don't want to live in a country that 
   watches my show, I'll tell you that." 
                               -J. Springer


>Hmm.  Maybe ice cream, then?  :) Or, more sensibly, hot chocolate for you,
>and coffee for me. :)  Or, if you like Greek food, there's a pretty good
>restaurant of that type here.

Hmmm, know nothing about Greek food...oh, what the hell, let's go there.
>
>}>By the way, do you have my Davis phone number?  It's 758-3846. 
>}Yeah, had that somewhere. For once I was good about writing down numbers in
>}my phone book and not on papers that get thrown around my desk.
>
>You mean, that's the wrong way to do it?  Gods, if I wrote all my phone
>numbers down in one place, I'd be sure to lose it. :)  

Good point...problem with the papers-on-the-desk theory is that a. the papers REALLY pile up and 
I don't necessarily go through them, and b. sometimes they migrate to the trash. Or I just find 
it months later, look at the paper, go "Whose number is that??? and toss it. Which I think
is what I did to almost everyone's phone number in the last quarter or so, unless it was on 
e-mail, in which case I can _eventually_ find those people's. Oh well, I manage to find my 
current phone book pretty easily. It only takes about five minutes of frantic "Oh shit, I lost 
it!" to find where I threw it. =)

That doesn't mean
>I'm supposed to have your number somewhere, does it? :)

I don't remember if I mentioned it or not...it's (yes, I finally had to cave. Ya think that was a
hint? "I'm pumped, let the phone torture begin."), but I'll warn you that I don't check 
the voice mail as often as the e-mail (very pathetic, I know... I'm trying to improve that...but 
mostly I forget to check and then when I try to call somebody and hear the phone beeping- "oh, 
oops." The computer is more, I dunno, _obvious_ somehow).

>}You check e-mail _everywhere_, don't you? =)
>
>Nope, not in Rumsey.  Or in Santa Cruz, usually.  But I did check it
>within an hour of leaving your parent's house the other morning... Thank
>the gods Kinko's doesn't take New Year's off. :)

Who was going to e-mail you that early after New Year's? For that matter, who's going to be 
_photocopying_ on New Year's?

>} But I'll be home later, like midnightish, if
>}>you're up and bored and want to call me...
>}
>}Well, if I'm home (we were supposed to go over to my ex-neighbor's after
>}Sarah gets back from the recruiter thing, but well, it's 9:20 and she's not
>}home, so who knows what's going on),
>
>Recruiter thing?  What kinda cult is she joining?  Military?  Sororitary?

Military. She now wants to join the army reserves because they'll pay for many many things and 
she'll get to wear the "cute" uniform/shoes/hat, and get to play with machine guns and troll on 
military men. That it'll piss off her hubby is probably an extra benefit. 
>
>}I'll see...I should be going to bed
>}early if I have class at 9 (waaaah!)
>
>There really oughta be a law against that.  

No kidding. =( Although it beats when I had drama at 8 am...on the farthest end of campus...in an
unheated building...and she made us lie on the floor at the start of class...and then wondered 
why people were falling asleep...

I'm just wondering why one of my friends was whining so much about having to go to class, when 
his first one is at 2. Grrrrrr.

Which days?  Just MWF, or all
>of them, or what?

Unfortunately it worked out to be ALL of them. Waaaah! Basically I had a choice between 9 am 
every day and a manageable finals schedule (i.e. so I could actually have a full week off and a 
few more days for spring break), or later on and finals on the last day. Did that last year, it 
was awful, not repeating it.
>
>}but, well, yeah right, probably not!
>}I'll try if I'm home and up and stalling around.
>
>Teehee.  Well, I'm home now.  Oh, it's almost midnight, so no diff. :)

Well, I wound up getting home way later than I expected to (so much for "we're only coming over 
for ten minutes!")...they started planning this Friday night drinking bash and it got into fights
over what kinds of booze to bring and who to invite (even more complicated than the booze, 
apparently, even though there'll probably be more booze types than people at the event), and it 
got uh, interesting. =) 

>}The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has- 
>}I'm not kidding. -Holden Caulfield
>
>How d'ya think they got rich enough to go there?

Good point! I find that fitting in Davis with all the university kleptos. 

>-- 
>Remington 
>  "I don't want to live in a country that 
>   watches my show, I'll tell you that." 
>                               -J. Springer

Hahahahahahhaha!!! Ain't that the truth? (So, Jerry, why haven't you moved to Canada yet?...)
Jennifer

I should mention here that I felt kinda embarrassed for not leaving a message or something, so
I was trying to insinuate that I got home later than that and the phone call wasn't me...for some
insane compulsive reason I hit check e-mail after sending the last one and found he sent me another
one...caught!


Did you just try to call, at about 12:40ish?  Sorry, I was on the other
line and didn't get to it fast enough.  Somehow, everyone knew to call me
at midnight... :)

-- 
Remington 

>Did you just try to call, at about 12:40ish?  Sorry, I was on the other
>line and didn't get to it fast enough.  Somehow, everyone knew to call me
>at midnight... :)

Oh, that's what it was? I figured on about the fourth ring or so "Oh, he probably went to bed or 
something by now." Then I thought "I should go to bed." Then I thought "Well, I'll just check 
e-mail first..." and am still up at 1:20 in the morning after doing all that writing back! 

Well, if you _tell_ people to call you then...maybe they actually will? 
Jennifer

Oooops, part 2...lookee what I found on newsgroup:
Susan said:
}Dark PRiSM wrote:
}:      Read other posts, the walking corpse did too accuse me of
}: that 8)
}Ooh.  You are walking close to the line.  Shall I post his e-mails?

Um, no.  I think that would seriously exceed the bounds of netiquette, not
to mention good taste.

If ya don't like 'em, delete them, or at most, complain to his service
provider.

-- 
Remington

Oh, shit.










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