Tori Amos from the choirgirl hotel

05.27.98

The cheap fluorescent stairwell light was flickering eratically as I ascended from the car pit tonight...SOS...SOS...SOS..."save our ship" in morse code...

Of course, that wasn't the actual pattern, there was no pattern...but imagine it, someone trapped in the apt. building needed help and flashed sos through the light subconsciously, or a deity trapped within the lightbulb itself...or, or or...might make an interesting story...

Perhaps I'll try writing a new story this summer. I should have a lot of time on my hands and this isn't the first idea that's popped into my head as of late.

Got my storage space squared away today. Have a rental truck lined up to move my shit there tomorrow. I have part of my stereo packed away even...ima moving man...Finally found a poster tube for 'don' the other day...looked all over the damn place and ended up at Kinkos...there was a cute gal working there when i walked in, but i got helped by someone else.

I have a big bucket of dead alkaline batteries to dispose of this summer. No where to get rid of them around here...none of the local recyclers take 'em...or maybe i just haven't looked hard enough. oh well whatever. I'm not gonna just chuck em....

I really need to call Wendy at the Chinese Kitchen. damn, I forgot to do that today.

I think I gave christa the wrong CD as i now have two discs two of 5.5.98 from Bruce and I should only have 1 disc two...
I wonder if she realized that yet, being busy moving and stuff...

I had to call all *over* the damn place to find a truck for tomorrow...i should have set that up a couple weeks ago. oh well, it's taken care of now so no worries.

Tomorrow should be, if all goes according to plan, my last day in Humboldt for a couple of months; last day in Arcata/Eureka county for june/july.
Which of course is how I make quite blunt the fact of my 'forced hiatus' from online journalizing. I may, if all goes well, still upload whatever entries I've made once a week or so...or maybe not at all. I'll see.

I have i think 3 email addresses I've either never used, or haven't used for months/years...in fact I think I've forgotten about one or two even...who knows...

it is now 9:55PM here. what time is it where you're at? Nedstat would peg the odds around something-or-'nother....their clock is six hours ahead of mine...

Dropped Greg and Steve and Steve my TV for use while I'm away...thing *barely* fit into my car...big tv, small car...i felt bad taking it at first, since liz was in the shower and it was 3:30PM yesterday...oprah was gonna be on in half an hour and i bet she wanted to watch on the big tv...sorry, had to be done. one less hassle = one one-bit- saner-vomacka.

Nothing like bare white walls to make a room feel unwelcome...

10:04PM

What ills do i fare as of late? What demons lurk under my skull right now? Not too many actually, and that's a wonderful feeling. Debt rides heavy in my thoughts, and the knowledge of just how bad it is sucks...credit cards enabled me many many things, but, like the idiot I am (just like Visa, MC, etc like) I got over my head...as I wrote earlier, I've learned the necessity of sacrifice in this last year...we can't always get what we want. It's so easy to carried away sometimes, and now I'm hurting for it...but I think, given some time, things will be OK, and I'm not upset about it like I once was.

I wonder what the army would be like...quite a drastic avenue to turn to for school money...but it wouldn't hurt to look into it...maybe it's possible to swing 10grand with minimal commitment to service...and of course, I've always been wary of having free reign...look where it got me a few months back. Of course, things are better now and I'm a stronger and wiser man now, but...

I got a zit just inside my ear canal...damn annoying it is. finally popped yeser'day...but i doubt you want to hear about that, do you?

I'm sleeping on the floor tomorrow night. yay me.

I realized earlier today that I accidentally boxed _The Wounded Land_ up with the books for storage...doh! I am *not* going to rip off the packing tape to get to it...guess i'm not reading 'bout Covenant this summer. current readin list: _Elric:Song of the Black Sword__ (Moorcock), _Death of a Salesman_ (Miller) (have had this drama for years but never actually read more than a page here and there), _Pylon_ and _The Hamlet_ and _As I Lay Dying_ (Faulkner), I've read _The Hamlet_ before...not doing a very good reading on it however, not reading it like one _should_ read faulkner, that being very carefully and with an eye on the whole picture...Anyway that one could be right after pylon, or not at all...who knows.

Oh yeah, the petrified forest? Wasn't there. Still a beautifull walk and a great drizzle accompanied it, making it all so much better actually...but no stoned wood. maybe it's only during winter, or the minus 1.6 ft tide wasn't enough, or greg's profesor lied, or whatever...still worth getting up early...long long day. went over to the Spank house and did some recording for them.

10:25 PM
This entry is being an act of labor. What do I say that holds meaning tonight? How odd I make it entertaining for you, not that it's a responsibility...but i admit I feel bad sometimes when I have nothing to say but wander about, and you getting stuck with it as a reader. I dunno. I keep blindly chuggin along cuz I get email from four ppl only more than once. (and those of you who know who you are, thanx :) I always appreciate it when you reach out :) ) I wonder how many people have clicked here, read a few entries, then glanced aside, said, 'naaahhh' not for me, and never come back.
So I never did that sitemap I was talking about. maybe someday...not over summer though.

For one thing, I'm happy not having an internet provide of my own...keeps me offline 24hours a day. I get my email, write these entries, do basic things that need to get done, and go back about my life. I'd end up an internet junky if I had unlimited hours on northcoast or tidepool or or or...

I'll probably write again tommorrow night...last night at the apt 'n' all...but for now, I'm done. g'night (or g'morning)