"To the one woman fate created just for me. So far I've managed to avoid her." -Jon Winokur, A Curmudgeon's Garden of LoveHmmm, today sure has been rather interesting. Well, class sure wasn't, but the rest was.
After school today I went shopping for Christmas gifts that I suspected I wasn't going to find in Davis- and I was right. However, I DID do a LOT of Christmas shopping for MYSELF. I bought:
1. Ayn Rand book -$6ish
2. Gorgeous rainbow Indian shirt that is obviously not suited for anything but spring wear, OVER another shirt or else I'll be flashing something, $20
3. Spent hours in the bead shop making a necklace that sort of goes with the shirt, $4.50. Maybe I can justify this by wearing 'em on the next date?
4. Another book- A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love!!!!!!! $7.50
Now THIS is the book for me! I've got the other two Curmudgeon books (The Portable Curmudgeon, Portable Curmudgeon Redux), and LOVE 'em, so naturally I was dying to get my hands on this one. Only when I looked it up on Amazon it was out of print!!!! Waaaaaaah!!
I go into Bogey's (the used bookstore) to hunt for a book for someone else, scan the humor section on my way over there, found it, and had to restrain myself from squealing in glee. It's MINE!!!!!!!!!!
Go home and find a note on my door from Megan and Chelsea that they want to talk to me in secret (not about the bathroom!), this was for Kayda's b-day party (which will be next Fri. so Megan can attend), they want to call up Kayda's friends and boyfriend and have a party. Right on!
The newsgroup posts for today that were interesting (many were on the TA strike and got kinda dull to me).
Subject: Re: Loving an inanimate object From: Remington Jennifer Rutherford said: }However, I have learned to appreciate it somewhat (although I do wish it }came higher in the alphabet), Comes before me.}at least it's not a generic name like, }say, "Jennifer." Heh, if we swapped around, we'd get Remington Rutherford and Jennifer Stone, one completely odd person, and one boring as toast. :) }> }I never tell . . . }> Ah, so then there _is_ something for you to not tell, eh? Interesting... }Didn't you say somewhere else on here that sometimes it's good to keep }things a secret? ;) True. But knowing that there _is_ a secret is valuable information in and of itself. :} -Remington Remington wrote: > Jennifer Rutherford said: > }However, I have learned to appreciate it somewhat (although I do wish it > }came higher in the alphabet), > > Comes before me. Well, hey, it's nice to be able to beat _somebody_ in the alphabet game (finally)! > > }at least it's not a generic name like, > }say, "Jennifer." > > Heh, if we swapped around, we'd get Remington Rutherford and Jennifer > Stone, one completely odd person, and one boring as toast. :) I thought of that one too! This one refers to my agreeing w/him that keeping secrets about your uh, sexual predilections is a good thing sometimes. I don't think I put that one up yesterday. The part about the drink refers to that bad picture I mentioned yesteday that I didn't link to 'cause it's just really badly goofy. Jennifer Rutherford said: }Makes sense to me! I'l have to keep that in mind... :} }It's a good thing I put my drink down when I read this, because }otherwise it would have been coming out of my nose a second later! Oh, you flatter me. :) -Remington (I later put up that it made me giggle for twenty minutes straight, oddly enough, no comment on that. Hmmmm.)
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jennifer Rutherford wrote:
} >I think most people would have. It's pretty far from its home context,
} >and it was lost and scared, so I took it in and gave it a nice warm
} >sentence all its own. :)
} That's a VERY good one.
Thenk yew. We aim to please. :)
[Folger's instant crystals]
} Ewwwwwwww (then again, this comes from someone who doesn't even like the
} smell of coffee).
Wow. That's the best part. But Folger's isn't real coffee, anyway. It
was just something that would help me stay awake, that much longer.
} Well, most of the female pack is useful, albeit not much fun and doesn't
} help you run around on a caffeine high all night.
Somehow, I doubt they have coffee in the male packs either, anymore.
} >} >Well, all right, then. I suppose I can wait that long. Barely. :)
} >} Awwwww . . . if I blushed, I would be blushing right now.
} >And I bet it would be cute, too. Perhaps if you practiced in a mirror...
} And do you get cuter when you blush?
So I am told. But how anyone would know, I cannot guess, for I _never_
blush. :)
} Well, it's nowhere to be found anywhere (ugh), but from what I recall
} from last year we did have to move back right before the quarter started
} (the 4th this year), so I figure that's when it is. I'll probably find
} out in a few weeks exactly when it is.
Hmm. The first couple days of the quarter might be pretty stressed out
for you, too, huh? Maybe we better just leave the date open.
} I suppose we don't need to know know, but then, I've
} >made dates up to a decade in advance before...
} A DECADE in advance? To do WHAT?
Well, this girl Sherlyn, whom I'd basically just met a week before, was
turning out to kiss awfully well, and be generally a nice person, but she
was inconveniently moving to Denver the next day, and it was just the
wrong time in our lives to be changing plans that major, so we've decided
we'll meet on St. Patrick's Day, 2005, on top of the Space Needle in
Seattle. If we end up bringing significant others along, so be it, it'll
just be interesting to see if we both show up. The girl I'm dating in
Santa Cruz at the moment, Zoe, heard about this, and proposed that all
else being equal, we should meet on Memorial Day, 2010, in front of where
the cafe we first met in used to be. So to actually answer your question,
probably just to have coffee. :)
} This sounds EXACTLY like my friend's husband's old car. Smelled GODAWFUL
} when you were in it and god only knows what was on the seats/floor/etc.
} Fortunately I only rode in it in the dark, so I never found out.
Well, I'll probably end up covering it in plasticwrap. I do that.
} It's not an out of it thing, I doubt many people would know who I meant.
} He's this local guy (in a band/does monologues) that's done a few shows
} around here. He's my ex-design professor's daughter's ex-boyfriend (hmm,
} three degrees of separation there, I think?). My prof was this fabulous
} person who had us do weird yet interesting things, and on the last day
} or so of class she had him come in and perform . . . I can't really
} describe it, but it was COOL. I am so mad at myself for not seeing him
} when he was doing his last few shows, but I couldn't make it to where
} they were, ugh.
Well, I do have a car... And that does intrigue me... So find out where
and when.
} >S'all right, I do. They almost all suck. But I'm from Berkeley AKA 'The
} >Gourmet Ghetto', so I'm biased. But after I clean the car, I'm of the
} >opinion that 80-100 miles isn't too far to go for a really good meal. :)
} I don't have a problem with that . . .
So, what sort of food do you like? By nationality or whatever.
[JitB]
} >Eewww! I used to work at one of those!
} Then please DON'T tell me anything about how they make the food. I don't
} want to know so I can continue to eat there!
The food, on the whole, isn't too badly done, sanitation-wise. Assuming
the staff follows all the JitB guidelines, which is unlikely. The only
part that's really frightening is the shakes. I wouldn't trust those at
all.
} >} No exciting enemies- my high school archenemy goes here, but well,
} >} that's never amounted to more than backstabbing comments.
} >Well, I dunno. The University president wasn't exactly exciting until the
} >script got a grip on him, either.
} Yeah, I saw his (smirky) picture in the paper on Mon. and he seemed to
} be missing the eyepatch and cat . . .
To me, one of the funniest parts of the whole story was imagining him
crossed with Dr. Klaw from Inspector Gadget. I laughed so hard I could
barely type.
} >Perhaps if your high-school archenemy
} >turned out to be in league with the evil zeptroids from septimus prime?
} Oh, I'd TOTALLY believe that of her . . . she's always had this
} icy-robot-bitch quality about her anyway . . . now she can have the
} whole school to herself, it's not big enough for the both of us!
Heh. So what's her name?
} >Do you mean hunter-killer predator-like aliens, or the more x-filesy/close
} >encounters kind?
} I suppose the latter . . . whatever ones pick people up and do weird
} experiments and implant the little balls and stuff like that.
Hmm. Allows for a more intricate plot, but less violence. This is
probably good. I think perhaps part of the date should be us getting in
front of a terminal together and hammering it out.
} There was
} this play I read about a girl who really didn't fit in with the rest of
} the kids, and then an alien came by to take her back to her home planet
} . . . I figured that would explain it all!
Nah, that was an episode of either 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' or
'Goosebumps', I'm sure of it. :)
} Oh, my dad has that . . . which I think beats my mom's
} "Middle-Child-Of-Three-Girls Syndrome".
Jeez, everybody's gotta have one...
} >Compared to making Eudora or Netscape Mail do sensible things? Entirely.
} Computers are supposed to do sensible things?
Well, that was the original intent, but at somepoint, they forgot that,
and started designing them to do flashy things instead, because it made
them more money, and it's all slowly coming apart around the edges, and
now the best way to get stuff done efficiently is to use software that's
old and reliable.
} >Nah, just read the manual (or the online help) and it all makes sense...
} Uh, yeah, right . . . whatever.
Yeah, the trick is finding the manual. :)
} I never say "Jinkies!", it just doesn't sound cool enough somehow . . .
Oh, come on! It's way cool! It's groovolicious, even, and funkadelic!
} And no, you don't come off ditzy. To me, anyway.
} Just wait, that day will come . . . I can be a space cadet at times
} (i.e. driving)!
Ok, I'll drive, if'n ya don't mind... :) (I've already nearly died at the
hands of an ex's driving, but that's another story.)
} Jennifer (hmm, another space reference? Are the aliens sending me
} subconscious messages to prepare for their arrival?)
Nah, just subconscious messages to help ya plan out this story we's
writing. :)
-Remington
>Somehow, I doubt they have coffee in the male packs either, anymore.
They have very little in those now, actually, just razors and soap kinda stuff
I think (yes, I peeked, I was very bored).
>
>} >} >Well, all right, then. I suppose I can wait that long. Barely. :)
>} >} Awwwww . . . if I blushed, I would be blushing right now.
>} >And I bet it would be cute, too. Perhaps if you practiced in a mirror...
>} And do you get cuter when you blush?
>
>So I am told. But how anyone would know, I cannot guess, for I _never_
>blush. :)
That sounds familiar! I was wondering that myself ...
>Hmm. The first couple days of the quarter might be pretty stressed out
>for you, too, huh?
Actually, no- after moving in (which is always stressful) it's pretty dead until
classes start (except for book buying and lying around whining about how bored I
am).
Maybe we better just leave the date open.
Well, at least until I find out the info for sure, anyway.
{Paul Sykes etc}
>Well, I do have a car... And that does intrigue me... So find out where
>and when.
I don't think he's doing anything right now though, since he finished the last
show =(
>So, what sort of food do you like? By nationality or whatever.
Honestly, I haven't had that much ethnic food (my dad is well, he claims
heartburn if anyone wants to go anywhere exotic. Don't ya just love a deprived
childhood?) so I don't know, other than the traditional Chinese/Mexican.
>
>[JitB]
>} >Eewww! I used to work at one of those!
>} Then please DON'T tell me anything about how they make the food. I don't
>} want to know so I can continue to eat there!
>
>The food, on the whole, isn't too badly done, sanitation-wise. Assuming
>the staff follows all the JitB guidelines, which is unlikely. The only
>part that's really frightening is the shakes. I wouldn't trust those at
>all.
Uh, okay. That wasn't too bad. I was just worrying about the eggrolls (my
favorite food) mostly . . . there is probably something toxic in those, but I
really don't want to know about it!
>
>To me, one of the funniest parts of the whole story was imagining him
>crossed with Dr. Klaw from Inspector Gadget. I laughed so hard I could
>barely type.
Oh, I was cracking up reading that too.
>
>} >Perhaps if your high-school archenemy
>} >turned out to be in league with the evil zeptroids from septimus prime?
>} Oh, I'd TOTALLY believe that of her . . . she's always had this
>} icy-robot-bitch quality about her anyway . . . now she can have the
>} whole school to herself, it's not big enough for the both of us!
>
>Heh. So what's her name?
Melissa. I probably shouldn't mention her last name in it, huh?
>} >Do you mean hunter-killer predator-like aliens, or the more x-filesy/close
>} >encounters kind?
>} I suppose the latter . . . whatever ones pick people up and do weird
>} experiments and implant the little balls and stuff like that.
>
>Hmm. Allows for a more intricate plot, but less violence. This is
>probably good. I think perhaps part of the date should be us getting in
>front of a terminal together and hammering it out.
Sounds good to me.
>} Computers are supposed to do sensible things?
>
>Well, that was the original intent, but at somepoint, they forgot that,
>and started designing them to do flashy things instead, because it made
>them more money, and it's all slowly coming apart around the edges, and
>now the best way to get stuff done efficiently is to use software that's
>old and reliable.
Somehow this sounds like a good description of some web pages as well.
>Yeah, the trick is finding the manual. :)
Oh, that's very true! I forgot to pack almost all of mine moving back in this
year, so it made trying to work the VCR and printer "interesting" (i.e. full of
swearing) for a few days.
>
>} I never say "Jinkies!", it just doesn't sound cool enough somehow . . .
>
>Oh, come on! It's way cool! It's groovolicious, even, and funkadelic!
Uh-huh. Whatever.
>Ok, I'll drive, if'n ya don't mind... :)
Oh, please do!
(I've already nearly died at the
>hands of an ex's driving, but that's another story.)
I think everyone's got a story like that somewhere...
Jennifer
From Matt today, much edited:
[Remington's Harem of women]
-I agree. Wouldn't work for me personally. Too confusing.
WAY confusing! And that "special" aspect just wouldn't be
there!... I'm pretty impressed that he's holding a cool discussion in
.life, though! (about attraction, fetishism, etc.)... His other posts
toward you though are of course annoying people >:) Kinda funny. That
cross dressing pic was hilarious...
So tonight we're heading out ot see Spike & Mike's Sick &
Twisted Festival of Animation... Should be fun! I love perverted non-PC
cartoons like that >:) I'll actually be in YOUR town Saturday
afternoon/evening and Sunday morning! (staying with my friend Gabby and
visiting my friend Heather)... IF you wanted to have fun and meet for
coffee or somethin (noooo not as a "date"! puhleaze!), let me know!...
See ya!
>[Remington's Harem of women]
>-I agree. Wouldn't work for me personally. Too confusing.
>
> WAY confusing! And that "special" aspect just wouldn't be
>there!...
My opinion also. I dunno how you can keep track, I just get bamboozled.
I'm pretty impressed that he's holding a cool discussion in
>.life, though! (about attraction, fetishism, etc.)... His other posts
>toward you though are of course annoying people >:)
Hmmm, I noticed that. It's so much fun . . . Think I'll just have to make mine
even more annoying...
Kinda funny. That
>cross dressing pic was hilarious...
God, yes!
I had an ex who cross-dressed on occasion (for Rocky Horror only, he said.
Whatever), so I get pretty amused by that sort of thing now ...
So tonight we're heading out ot see Spike & Mike's Sick &
>Twisted Festival of Animation... Should be fun! I love perverted non-PC
>cartoons like that >:) I'll actually be in YOUR town Saturday
>afternoon/evening and Sunday morning! (staying with my friend Gabby and
>visiting my friend Heather)... IF you wanted to have fun and meet for
>coffee or somethin (noooo not as a "date"! puhleaze!), let me know!...
Sure, when?
Jennifer
Got an ICQ message from Matt (apparently right after he read the e-mail and was
leaving for the night) giving me his pager # (ugh, damn pagers) to let him know
about tomorrow or give him my #. I sent it to him on his work ICQ, but he's
probably not gonna get it real soon . . . oh damn, I'm gonna have to page him.
Ick ick ick.
I realize here that I haven't actually WRITTEN much lately since the whole e-mail flirtation stuff has started. Sorry to cheat y'all out of my regularly scheduled insane thoughts, but hey, saves me the trouble of rehashing all the comments.
Anyway, it seems that I have joined the harem myself. Auditioning to be girlfriend #3. And here I was claiming that was tacky. Sheesh, Jen!
And then my pulling a Remington (ha ha) by agreeing to meet Matt. Sure, it's not a date, fine by me (he's on this anti-dating thing. Good for him, if he can manage to pull it off. I've never been able to), but, well, this seemed kinda inevitable that he'd want to meet me next time he was in town (heck, people were bugging him about it on the newsgroup when he said he wanted to have a gathering). Gives me something to do this weekend anyway . . . too bad it involves spending $$$ though . . . I had $80 to last me for three weeks and in one day I whittle it down to $30ish for two. OUCH. Bad girl!
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