Morning

Woke up approximately when Votania and Nephew did; realized that was what was waking me up, noted the time, and hit the soothing noises button on my alarm clock.

My dreams were rather weird, but of course I can't remember them now, as it's been too long awake. There was something something something, though...

Today I must bring a spoon to science class. The teacher tells us that the spoons will be destroyed in the course of class. From the glint in his eye, this has some vague relation to The Matrix.

Giving ralmathon extra work

I tried to use a computer. IE crashed on me: not just one crash, but a serial crash, a domino crash, that kept restarting and crashing. Now the computer is doing the same thing: restarting, crashing, restarting, crashing.

Then I jammed the stapler before noticing what the computer was doing.

Poor Neighbor.

Fun Google mirror

http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/

Kung Fu

Donated plasma again. Didn't pause to rest on my way out: mistake. Came close to blacking out when walking down street towards bus stop. Eyes started dimming, sounds started fading out. Wondered if I was going to die; Willed myself not to. Sat down at bus stop on wrong side of street. Finally managed to gather the strength to walk inside the closest door, the kung fu dojo. Waited for vision to clear. When it did, I appreciated the artistry and grace of the old woman and the kid practicing what I think they were calling "Crane And Tiger" until I regained my strength. Came home. Will be collapsing in short order, having washed my face, gotten myself what I need to drink, and changed into a nightgown.

Never going to ever just jump up again.

Amusingly, I was warned: when reading the cards, read the cards, woman!

Feeling far better.

O, the embarrassment!

votania actually got me condoms. Trojans. "Magnum" size.

*blush*

109 == Aiyeee!

Keeping up with the friends list was causing the screaming Lunatic some screaming manias. So, there was the snippy applied to the friends list.

Most of the people/communities snipped were ones that I rarely have much to say to, and don't usually get happy hyper delightful joy out of reading, though reading it certainly isn't eyebleeding pain. Reading /friends?skip=60 to catch up with everything since lunchtime is sometimes eyebleeding pain.

So, snippy snippy.

Revival

Dawn got to take a look at a particular tarot reading that I did, just the cards, without hearing my interpretation beforehand, without knowing what or who the reading was about.

Dawn reported to me later that Darkside, who was sitting across the table from her, started having his eyes bugging out partway through that reading.

Isn't it spooky when people start talking about your life as if they knew what was going on?

There was another half to that reading, but that half was for my eyes, and mine alone. I have it written down, the whole thing, so I can look back on it later. I'm thinking of writing up my own interpretations of each of the cards, as I'm becoming more proficient with them, far better at looking at cards, taking half a sideways glance at life, and rearranging everything to fit, coming up with insights that I didn't know I was coming up with.

I still think that my deck tossing me the three of swords (my deck is the Dragon Tarot) while I was donating plasma was delightfully funny, as the illustration depicts three swords piercing a heart, and blood dripping out.

I'm contemplating requesting Darkside to help me revive the Lunatic. Azure Lunatic, ex-nun vampire, clan Malkavian. I may never get a chance to play her again; I just want to have her character sheet to hand so that I may play her if I have the opportunity, without having to stop then to make her up again.

Creativity shall be released. I might want to get into gaming.

...Darkside's got gaming friends at school again now. He used to have A.K., but A.K. graduated and doesn't hang out at school anymore. Now he's got Dawn (he's had her as a friend for longer than he's had me, but she's only become closer recently), and ralmathon, and Bald Guy; there are some others creeping in there: Loren, Panther, and he's even started talking to the Annoying Atheist. (I have yet to collect his opinion on that guy. I must say, he's toned down a lot in early mornings at school versus his late-evening out of school self.)

I'm glad Darkside has friends. He needs friends. He needs friends he can talk gaming with.

Temperature

For whatever reason, my regular temperature these days seems to be at 99.1 F, which is an interesting change from my high school and just a year or so ago temperature of 97.6. There was a four pound weight difference in me from last week -- lower. I guess with summer in Arizona, I've got to be careful to remember to eat. Speaking of which, the nectarines that had been hanging around in the refrigerator were what I had been needing today. Sometimes refined sugar just revolts me.