Stars and Snooping

My Soap-Operatic Life

" LEO and TAURUS, maybe not the most secure of matches, but certainly romantic! Number One Rule is, “Beware the Leo Bringing Flowers!” Leo can turn the world of Taurus upside down with new sensations and daring activities. The Taurean heart does bungee jumps! Taurus must be careful with Leo. Leos can be reckless and extreme in almost every way." Your Love Sign

Oh, yeah, and doesn't this sound familiar, blast from the semi-recent past?

And check this one too, to fit with the depression mode.

This stalker-ish episode started out innocently (even though I doubt you'll believe this after reading my other "accidental" exploits in here), I swear:

Okay, so last night instead of doing my character sketch for characters I don't even have for a nonexistent story, I was looking crap up on the Internet. I decided to look for the Leach home page on the school server.

When I was at the haunted house, there was this one girl there (an RA, I think, Nora) taking pictures of the whole thing for the hall web page, and I decided to see if she'd put any up yet (because I'd be in 'em in my lovely costume). Nope, there's nothing there on the page yet (that's why no link). HOWEVER, I do see that there's pages listed for all the other halls, including my hall. So I'm curious and check it out. Not deliberately looking for any dirt on (ahem) anyone, just looking. (I am not linking to any of these pages because I am trying to leave his last name out of this. Y'all don't really need to know it, my blabbing his first name is bad enough.)

I was surprised that they had actual information on the page (very surprising since the place is so do-nothing). There's even a page for third south (albeit there's really nothing on that other than "if anyone wants to work on this page contact the webmaster." Actually, I might do it if asked (don't know crap about scanning, frames, et al. though, so none of that for me, thanks), but there would be no point, as nothing ever happens here.

Anyway . . . they had a few pages on the RA's. Naturally, I looked. Found out that Jensen's major is neurobio et al (long name for it) and that he wants to "get into research on the brain and related sicknesses." Awesome. When he becomes an M.D. I'll send my dad right over.

And, they have pictures! Which, of course, I downloaded for uh, personal use (yes, I have restrained myself from putting them on my wallpaper, although that was only if anyone else came in and saw them). I am thinking of putting them up here, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.

Then I started to get real stalker-ish.

Ever tried typing your name into a search engine and see what comes up? Seriously, it's a hoot to do, usually. The last time I did it (on Alta Vista has the most), I was amazed that three of my things on the Web came up (this page, something from ucd.life's page, and something from the Love Blender), although none of them were the #1 listing. And one picture of a nativity scene, not done by THIS Jennifer though!

Anyway, I got the idea to try that with his name (both first and last, doing only first didn't come up with him- hint: don't try looking this up yourself), and surprise, I found a page with his name on it! Turned out to be a family tree of some sort (not something he did, I think), found out family members' names, his birthday (he's a Leo, hence the horoscope up there), that was about it. No more photos =(.

This is so stalker-ish of me. Again.

In other bullshit . . .

Found this comic strip I'd like to mention in the Sacramento Bee (I think that's their web address), Zits. Conversation between 2 teenage girls:

"So, Sara . . . How's your boyfriend Jeremy?"
"He's not my 'boyfriend.' I HATE that word . . . (in flowery text w/ flower as i dot)'boyfriend.' Yuck!"
"Fine. So if he's not your boyfriend, what is he?"
"Right now I prefer to think of him as a 'salvageable male.'"
Good term! If I ever find a salvageable one, I'll have to use it.

Bad comic in Sacramento News and Review, entitled Red Meat: a father and son.

Dad: "I'm very excited for you son. Dropping you off at camp brings back quite a few fond memories of my first time at summer camp."
"Really?"
"Oh sure. for instance, on my first night the other guys in my cabin secretly put a black widow spider in my bunk, and the damn thing laid an egg sac under my scalp while I was asleep."
"What happened?"
"One week later, i was the proud mother of three hundred babies. But that was kid stuff compared to the time I got stuffed into the latrine. They couldn't find me for two days."
"I'm just gonna kill myself now."
"Buck up, son. That's what the counselors are here for."

Reminds me of when I got a spider bite and my cousin told me that it had laid eggs in my arm. I was sooooo scared . . . didn't happen!

Okay, I think I've found the scariest horoscope EVER pour moi (also in SN&R). NOT IN ANY WAY GOOD HERE!

"It may be impossible to avoid developing some new addiction in the coming days. I can almost guarantee that you will at least become obsessed with a pretty plaything you've merely been attracted to before. Since you're unlikely to find a way to escape this fate, try to arrange to get hooked on stuff that's good for you--broccoli instead of heroin, for example, a master teacher instead of an abusive lover, strip poker rather than gambling on the stock market."

Watching Dawson's Creek (on tape), and damn, the show is getting worse. Jack kissing Joey- ick. The Andie crisis was interesting (different), but I still think she and Pacey shouldn't already be in coupledom, for chrissake. I KNEW the Vincent thing was gonna turn out exactly as it did. Been there, ran away from that. Abby- what an obvious ho. Parents- well, shoot, if Mitch wasn't gonna get over it, that's where it was going to go. I thought he was over it last season . .. . awww, poor Dawson. This show made me HATE full moons, and normally I enjoy that kind of love chaos. What happened to the brains of the writers? Not return from vacation? Everyone miserable. I am NOT looking forward to next week's episode.

Ooh, one more from this page on RA-dom:

"I'm going to a meeting for prospective RA's on Thursday. I was supposed to go on Sunday, but I completely forgot. I was too busy being sad about being sad about nothing (try figuring that one out). I really, really want to be an RA. I want to help people. Especially people who are just coming to college for the first time.

But I worry, about the same thing that I've worried about all summer. How could anybody put me in control of their well-being when I sometimes can't handle being in control of mine? Even worse, how could I possibly be a doctor? How could anybody trust me like that?"

Links to other sites on the Web

Animation Grove (Taurus)
By Design (moon, star bar)

So, should I put up his picture, or not? Anyone care? Curious? What? E-mail below.

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