"The one thing that I know about love for sure is that it's the only game in town and that you must keep going back to bat again and again and again. I have no respect for anyone who says that they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being." -Harlan Ellison
} >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).
Silly. Freshmen with facial hair? I think not. You weren't supposed to
peek? Why not?
} >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).
Ooh! Can I lie around and whine, too? That sounds like fun!
} >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.
So, what's the bizarre thing you'd most like to try? French? Ethiopian?
Thai? Cambodian? Russian?
} >[JitB]
} 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!
Nah, the eggrolls are fine. They get dumped in incredibly hot grease that
nothing on earth could survive in.
} >} >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?
Why on earth not? I know some other Melissas that could possibly be hurt
if we don't specify... Like Yams's flatmate.
} >} 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.
The ideal webpage, in my mind, doesn't have newfangled stuff that crashes
people's browsers. like mine. :)
{page included, which I am not including here}
} >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.
Isn't swearing in the manual? I thought that was integral to making
appliances function.
-Remington
(yes, I peeked, I was very bored).
>Silly. Freshmen with facial hair? I think not.
Oh, there's a few that do. A very few.
You weren't supposed to peek? Why not?
Oh, I don't think they cared (seeing as no one "in charge" was around
practically the whole afternoon), we were just sitting there with the kits and
no other forms of entertainment . . . we were considering stealing something
out of one (I forget what), but figured we REALLY weren't allowed to do that.
>Ooh! Can I lie around and whine, too? That sounds like fun!
Sure, go ahead, it's one of my very favoritest (love that English major!)
hobbies. Along with sitting around and whining on the Internet, that is =)
>So, what's the bizarre thing you'd most like to try? French? Ethiopian?
>Thai? Cambodian? Russian?
Don't know, whatever's the least scary to look at, I guess . . . I'd say French,
but well, certain things ARE scary to look at, once you know what they are
anyway (keep me away from those cervelles). Although hopefully I'd be able to
remember enough of it to well, know not to order the cervelles.
Good! =) I'd hate to give up that addiction!
>} Melissa. I probably shouldn't mention her last name in it, huh?
>Why on earth not?
She'd sue?
Okay, so it's unlikely she'd find this, but well, I've had a few experiences
with ripping on someone who wouldn't have any way of knowing about what I said,
and then they turn up next to me or someone else tells them . . . kinda gun-shy
I guess.
On the other hand, she's talked about me behind my back for YEARS (her favorite
hobby?). Maybe it's not such a biggie after all.
Okay, it's (deleted). If you ever meet her, DON'T tell her you know me.
>} Somehow this sounds like a good description of some web pages as well.
>
>The ideal webpage, in my mind, doesn't have newfangled stuff that crashes
>people's browsers. like mine. :)
(page address)
Uh, it doesn't work.
>Isn't swearing in the manual? I thought that was integral to making
>appliances function.
No, I add that in all on my own =)
Jennifer
} >Silly. Freshmen with facial hair? I think not.
} Oh, there's a few that do. A very few.
Yep. But enough to make it worth giving sharp objects and shaving creme
to all the others? You know it's just going to get used for fraternity
pranks.
} we were considering stealing something out of one (I forget what), but figured
we REALLY weren't allowed to do that.
Nonono, you switch contents from one gender to another... :}
} favoritest (love that English major!)
Ya mean, thet ain't a woid?
} >So, what's the bizarre thing you'd most like to try? French? Ethiopian?
} >Thai? Cambodian? Russian?
} Don't know, whatever's the least scary to look at, I guess . . .
None of it's really scary to >look< at. Thai is a lot like Chinese, only
spicier and with more peanuts and curries. Ethiopian is beans and rice
and meaty bits, and you eat with your fingers. Russian is good, burly
food made with lots of potatoes and beets. French tends to go in for
really rich sauces that require a huge vat of wine to go down properly.
} I'd say French, but well, certain things ARE scary to look at, once you know
what they are anyway (keep me away from those cervelles). Although hopefully I'd
be able to remember enough of it to well, know not to order the cervelles.
What's a cervelle? The French thing that frightened me was called
andouille. Nasty, deceptively sausage looking thing, but they use all the
bits of pig that weren't good enough for the sausages.
} Good! =) I'd hate to give up that addiction!
Which? What? Where?
} >} Melissa. I probably shouldn't mention her last name in it, huh?
} >Why on earth not?
} She'd sue?
And when the magistrate's done laughing, he'll probably order you to kick
her in the shins, too. :)
} Okay, so it's unlikely she'd find this, but well, I've had a few
} experiences with ripping on someone who wouldn't have any way of knowing
} about what I said, and then they turn up next to me or someone else tells
} them . . . kinda gun-shy I guess.
That's the other thing, is you aren't exactly ripping on her, you're
making her an arch-villainess, I mean, how cool's that? So when she
shows up and kvetches, you say, "I'm sorry, I thought you'd think it was
pretty rad, and you were the bane of my eexistence there for a few years,"
and then you get to talk about it, and stuff gets off everyone's chests,
and then you get to be friends.
} Okay, it's (bleeped out). If you ever meet her, DON'T tell her you know me.
Not even, "This is a message from Jennifer!!?!" as I hand her the
exploding mallard?
} >The ideal webpage, in my mind, doesn't have newfangled stuff that crashes
} >people's browsers. like mine. :)
(again, edited)
} Uh, it doesn't work.
Ah, yes. The joys of Mac PeterServer. Now I have to call someone in CA
and ask them to please hit the reset button on the friggin' headless
wonder machine. Somebody had this brilliant idea for running a
Macintosh without a monitor... It'll be back up by monday sometime.
-Remington
>Yep. But enough to make it worth giving sharp objects and shaving creme
>to all the others?
Oh, please, every guy I knew growing up never traveled without several sharp
objects, lighter (even if they didn't smoke- you never know when you're gonna
need instant fire), and sometimes explosive devices!
You know it's just going to get used for fraternity
>pranks.
And that's what makes it fun to watch when they come home that night =)
>
>} we were considering stealing
>} something out of one (I forget what), but figured we REALLY weren't allowed
>} to do that.
>
>Nonono, you switch contents from one gender to another... :}
DAMN! I SHOULDA DONE THAT!!!!!
>} favoritest (love that English major!)
>Ya mean, thet ain't a woid?
Is to me. Then again, I use any opportunity I can to slip the word "ain't" into
conversations with my mother . . . I had an odd experience one time while being
called by an army recruiter and she asked my major, then started flipping out
that her grammar wasn't all right. I hadn't the heart to tell her that I don't
understand grammar one iota (and my language grades sure reflected that!).
>} >So, what's the bizarre thing you'd most like to try? French? Ethiopian?
>} >Thai? Cambodian? Russian?
>} Don't know, whatever's the least scary to look at, I guess . . .
>
>None of it's really scary to >look< at. Thai is a lot like Chinese, only
>spicier and with more peanuts and curries. Ethiopian is beans and rice
>and meaty bits, and you eat with your fingers. Russian is good, burly
>food made with lots of potatoes and beets. French tends to go in for
>really rich sauces that require a huge vat of wine to go down properly.
Okay, Thai then.
>} I'd say
>} French, but well, certain things ARE scary to look at, once you know what
>} they are anyway (keep me away from those cervelles). Although hopefully I'd
>} be able to remember enough of it to well, know not to order the cervelles.
>What's a cervelle?
Brains. I read a book once in which some people had to come up with French foods
for the class, and one guy did cow stomachs, kidneys, brains, and was
disappointed that he couldn't get the head. Naturally, they had a TON of
customers . . . until they translated, that is.
The French thing that frightened me was called
>andouille. Nasty, deceptively sausage looking thing, but they use all the
>bits of pig that weren't good enough for the sausages.
Oh, yummy.
>} Good! =) I'd hate to give up that addiction!
>Which? What? Where?
To eggrolls. Sorry, that wasn't a particularly exciting addiction.
>} Okay, it's (deleted). If you ever meet her, DON'T tell her you know me.
>Not even, "This is a message from Jennifer!!?!" as I hand her the
>exploding mallard?
Ewwwwwww....
Well, in THAT case, then go right ahead, I'll make an exception!
>} >The ideal webpage, in my mind, doesn't have newfangled stuff that crashes
>} >people's browsers. like mine. :)
(deleted)
>} Uh, it doesn't work.
>
>Ah, yes. The joys of Mac PeterServer. Now I have to call someone in CA
>and ask them to please hit the reset button on the friggin' headless
>wonder machine. Somebody had this brilliant idea for running a
>Macintosh without a monitor...
Okay, that is BAD. Very BAD. And these are supposed to be the smart people?
Jennifer
Well, Remington sent me his web page. Not that I haven't seen it before actually (not that he knows that though), it's linked off ucd.life's web page and I've gone through about half the sites on there. Actually, I had his bookmarked for awhile in the summer I think, till I figured that I wasn't going to go back through all the funky-ass links like I'd intended (that's about all it is, btw) and deleted it. I've tried checking it recently and it is not working for some reason, which is what I said back to him and nothing else.
I told him on our date that I had two pages (one STILL not working!!!!) and work on another one. I know I shouldn't have done that, but well, I'm a blabber. That's all I've said, not that the two working ones are basically journal sites.
Here's the dilemma: Is this an invite to send him my page(s)? Is it rude if I don't? Because, well, this one's uh, well, I think you can see why I wouldn't want this one to go around to anyone I know; Spotfans, while an improvement, is kinda bad also for blabbing about guys in the past and probably future (more on this later), plus it's got a link in my old entries to this page; and my third page doesn't work, plus has a link to Spotfans.
Ugh!
I'm just worried that he might do what I do and do a search, and come up with this page. Not a good thing, I think.
The fun of meeting people on the Internet, I guess!
I could censor this page around a LOT, I suppose, but, well, that would take forever, and isn't really fair to do. I was going to attempt AGAIN to get my non-working page to work (it's a web site review page, but at least a good many of the sites are dead, I want to change it or maybe do something new), but I STILL cannot get on, get "Document contains no data" every attempt. The page server is not good with tech stuff, they don't even have a tech e-mail address anywhere on the page! I e-mailed the membership people (the only address I could find) last year and they said there was nothing they could do. I just e-mailed them again asking for a new password (maybe that's the problem?), we'll see.
Or maybe I can just get another free web page? There's still a few places I haven't got a page at … dunno what I'd put on it though, the traditional boring home page crap I guess? I find those to (usually) be pretty boring, they're all about like this:
Little bio of me
Pics of my friends
Bad poetry I wrote
Favorite links
Write me! Sign my guestbook!
Since I don't have pics of my friends, and don't care about guestbooks, that kinda shoots most of that out the window. And as for links, well, maybe some of 'em … couldn't link to Spotfans here though. And it would have to be a site that doesn't kick you off if nobody checks your page and you don't edit it for awhile. Something reasonably censored for public consumption. And I'd like to do something more original than just that kinda crap (albeit I don't know what). More like this, maybe? Well, we'll see.
My investigations of web sites led me to these: top contenders:
gurlpages: Shuts down if there are no hits or edits within 60 days. While the setup is nice, (especially if you're a girl!), is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of teenage bimbos on there? I mean, a LOT. 11 of space, popups
XOOM: 11 of space, popups. Well, at least these guys list an e-mail address . . . Doesn't say that they'll shut you down if no one looks, but they INSIST that you be on their mailing list or they'll delete your site. Kinda obnoxious, IMO. Couldn't find out anything else immediately w/out putting in e-mail. Must be in some kind of "community" like Geocities.
Angelfire: Pages are subject to removal, if there is no activity (hits or edits) on the page for 60 days. Again, the crowd seems kinda dingy. 11 of space, popups.
Prohosting: 10 mgs of space, popups, but they want you to go around promoting their site or something. Weird.
This site, however, was my favorite. If I can't get my Tripod site back under my control, I'm going to this place!
Internet Trash
I LOVE THIS! 10 MB, WHATEVER YOU WANT, WOO HOO!!!!
Pick your own address reference thing! Cool name! No ads! No frames!
"Everyone & anyone welcome! Offensive,tasteless, useless, trashy, crude, rude, adult, silly, stupid, meaningless,
obnoxious, extreme, political, waste of bandwidth homepages! Normal & ordinary homepages also welcome!"
Pick from a list on how to reference your home area:
internettrash.com
internetjunk.com
internetgarbage.com
internettoilet.com
nettrash.com
netjunk.com
netgarbage.com
nettoilet.com
All will reference your area the same way... just pick your favorite!
The rest offered VERY little space- shoot, if I'm getting a free site, I want a lot of space for it. Dang, people!
I then decided to look up some people's home pages (pretty much the ones on ucd.life plus a few) to see if anyone did anything interesting and different that would give me ideas. I found rants, (well, I do like that) links, restaurant reviews, stuffed toy autopsy (well, it sure is different!) The one most suited to me (well, besides rants!) though, I think, was one by one of last year's Aggie columnists, with his old columns on it. Now I like that idea- what if I did a collection of my own columns that never made it to the Aggie (grrr)? That would be different and interesting. I think I like that idea!
Well, interesting afternoon at Casa Castilian:
Was drawing in my room and could hear through the closed door that Kayda and Chelsea and Megan were all out in the living room together talking (about cheerleading), and I thought, "I should really go out there." So eventually I did, after paging Matt (yes, I managed to get the page done right. Voice mail pager is a helluva lot easier pager than the normal kind). Managed to get along relatively well with everyone, I hope anyway. Worked on my design project, good for me.
Matt eventually called and said he was having it pretty hectic, could he just drop by the dorm in 20 minutes. "Uh, okay . . ." I hang up and do Jeff Foxworthy's "Flight of the Bumblebee" method of cleaning up my pigsty of a room, then go down to pick him up. To my surprise he hugs me right off the bat. Hmm. Anyway, it's a short conversation, like five minutes before he has to leave, out in front of the dorm, basically the same stuff as on newsgroup (design major references, he asked if I was talking to Remington, I said yes and not much else there, a bit about cross-dressing), then he hugs me again and leaves. Hmm. Went back upstairs and had to answer the roommates' questions about the encounter.
Okay, back to what I said about Spotfans: My "missing" entry that was supposed to go up on the 2nd and didn't (I still don't know why it didn't) went up today, and when I checked the front page it said over my icon "NEW BOYFRIEND?!?!"
Ai yi yi. Not yet, folks.
I can kinda understand the reference though, since I was going on about asking Remington out on IRC, and I have quotes from an unidentified guy (Matt) on the entry. Put two and two together and it sounds like four to those not living in Jenniferland. But on the other hand, I wasn't planning to mention that on Spotfans. I did not want to count the chickens before they hatch the way I did with Kiwini. Now I feel almost obligated to explain things a bit.
Then again, it did go up on a Saturday. Maybe nobody read it?
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