Apr. 2nd, 2001

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i guess i'm behind again, aren't i? well... i did stuff. and then i slept. and then i did nothing.

that was pretty much it. :)


c2 and kieth and i plotted to replace chris's confiscated-and-destroyed sword cane, and found an exact copy of it (except c2 got the black cane instead of the oak one. doofus.) and chris seemed to be very appreciative. this was on thursday, when black and white came (an hour earlier; both the game and the cane arrived while i was asleep and thus naked), and when chris got his laptop. happy boy.

we went to claim jumper some day or another, and the waiter ended up asking us how many bongs we would like.

went to baccano's (extremely fancy italian restaurant) and i wore my little black dress and we ate food that cost a lot. i had scallops that were practically as big as my fist. and there were cute girls at the table next to me being flirted with by the manager and given bottles of wine to test. it was very amusing.
and very yummy.

spend a lot of time watching chris play giants and black & white. it looked like he'd almost finished giants when we left for portland. he seemed to be enjoing the crushing. :) and i want a computer that will let me play black and white. spiffy game. :)

wandered around u district in the daylight for once... we had lunch in the thai-ger room and i wandered in all the little indian shops and would have been tempted to buy a coin scarf and jingly bracelet ($35) if i had spending money and the scarf material hadn't been rayon. the guy said that silk doesn't hold up very well.... i suspect he's thinking about a different weave of silk than i am. raw silk is strong stuff, i don't know about any other kinds.
we looked in the nifty gargoyles shop, which had all sorts of cool stuff. and then we had ice cream in the mix. they have 4 or so flavors of icecream, and all sorts of stuff that they can put in it. they take a scoop and chop it up and mix all the stuff in, hence the name. i had vanilla with junior mints and cookie dough and hershey's syrup. it was *good*. we stopped by there a night earlier and the place was packed. as we got inside, they announced that they'd run out of icecream, except for espresso and cheesecake, and were possibly going to close early.

then we went to metro. it's the type of store of which hot topic is a cheap knockoff. it was *fun*. i found a skirt that was all floofy around the bottom because there wasn't actually a hem - the fabric was sewn to the shorter lining. i've seen the effect before, and as soon as i have time ::koff::never::koff:: i wanna try making one. and i tried on a leatherwench type bodice - one of the really short ones. and it was pleather. and then i tried on a long pleather dress, lacing up the back, straps, practically a train in the back although that may just have been because it was made for someone who was 6' at least. i was talking about how dresses never fit right because they expect me to have 2" more between ribs and hips and between shoulders and breasts, at least. so it had creases across my stomach. and some random patron said as i was walking past, 'i think it looks good...' heehee. it was amusing. and not at all creepy, which it could have been.
there was a guy in metro who we'd seen all the way back in the gargoyle shop. he accused us of following him. :) he was neat, he had really good vampire fangs and a black trench coat. and he was black, and had the ends of his hair and goatee dyed red. it looked like it'd grown out. all in all a spiffy effect.

and then of course i left without buying anything. the dress was $135, or something to that effect.

erm, lessee, what else..... minnie's on crack. as is kieth. chris is always tired. it took me forever to get out of bed sunday morning, so we met ryan and liz for dinner instead of lunch. only they arrived 45 min late cause they got lost. it was pretty good though, the old spaghetti factory - 3 course meal for $8.

and my computer has memory! woohoo! now if only it had a hard drive....



note to self: once you've finished writing an entry, press 'post.'
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i had an indifferent day for the most part. and then i bought some chai. i'd been craving chai. so i set it down next to me and waited for it to cool down. it was still hot when i managed to knock it over with the keyboard cord. results? liberal application of 12oz of steaming chai to foot, bedding (every layer, including the mattress pad), mouse, new mouse pad, and really freakin' expensive cd player.
i'd just washed my bedding. i'd made my bed less than 24 hours ago, which is not an easy task - my bed is lofted, and i have to lift the mattress and shove it against the wall so it won't slide. and tucking things under a mattress that you're standing on is very difficult. on top of that, i didn't have enough money on my laundry card to wash and dry everything.
i soaked the saturated and sticky 3-week-old mouse pad in water, so it should be okay once it dries. the mouse will probably start acting up, though. it's just a cheapass thing, so i could probably get my dad to give me enough money to buy a new one.
i think i got most of the liquid out of the cd player. it mostly works, although there were a few scary moments. my dad won it at a computer show; it retails for $200 or so and there's no way i could afford to replace it.
after falling apart at people, amanda let me borrow her laundry card, and people were very sympathetic.
i just got back from fred meyer, where i went to buy retainer cleaner and listerine. i came back with lots of chocolate. note to self: don't go shopping when you're having a bad day. also i got a printer cartridge. it was exorbitantly expensive. there was one for $15 for ij200 printers - i have an ij300. dammit. and then i got home and opened up the printer to discover there was already a cartridge in there. figuring it was an old one that i'd forgotten to throw away, i printed a test page.... it was a new one. smack me if i try to buy another printer cartridge any time soon.


why do sucky things always happen when i'm pmsing? any strong negative emotion and i start crying, which i did 3 separate times over this whole mess. any other time and i would have just gotten pissed off, but no, i have to start crying. at least it made me feel better; crying usually does. and cristina said i'm beautiful when i'm crying. then she was worried that it was an awful thing to say, but it actually made me feel better that i wasn't just being snivelly.

and now i have lots of chocolate. yum. day has improved. time to read soc book and print comic strips.
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hey, sylvie! did you ever finish your duct tape clothing?
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aquaone: i'm a whiskey guy...
englishguywa: and yet you drink JD... how strange.

unique interests:
atlantia - the sca kingdom i'm a member of in virginia
center for talented youth - someone else has it as cty. summer camp that made it possible for me to be who i am now.
david lamotte - folk singer from north carolina. really good musician
fallen from grace - my sca householdish group of disreputable people
flaming liberalism - i'm on *fire*, baby!
florentine - fencing term, fighting with an off-hand weapon or parrying device. i've known people to fight 'chicken florentine' - ie a rubber chicken as a parrying device.
historical fencing - ....er, self explanatory.
kinky caer caledonians - their parrying device of choice is a riding crop. 'nuff said. (damn, was that link hard to find. update your directory pages, people.)
lewis and clark college - apparently i'm the only one from lc on livejournal.
olive bread - this, with a wedge of brie, made for many after-school-but-still-at-school dinners. yay, fresh fields. they carry oregon chai, too.
pwaowah - people who are obsessed with alan's hair. message board for the hormonally inclined great big sea fans.
university of glasgow - where i spent fall 2000.

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