Morning Arizona Rain

I was starting to feel glum last night, then a neighbor stopped over. Not Neighbor, some other guy. We chatted about this and that. It's always nice to get to know someone new. Marx came home. The new neighborfriend left. Glum came back in a big way. Yowled in my journal. Chatted with sithjawa, who is amazing with the comforting words that aren't "Comforting Words^TM". Went to sleep.

Woke up to the happy sound of drippy rain. Mmm, rain. Nice and comforting and comfortable. Snagged pizza and an apple for breakfast; will be cruising out the door to Do Stuff in a bit.

Doing Stuff

Yesterday I was worried that I'd lost something from my mnemonic system.

Allow me to explain my mnemonic system. It's effectively a very short tape recording system inside my head, where I can remember with reasonable accuracy various things that I save to it. It has to be very short, and numbers don't get remembered accurately, to the best of my experience. To store to it, I snap twice, say what I need to remember, and snap twice to save. I snap twice to recall the contents. I can store several items before it gets too full. I must re-save after recalling, generally.

The other day (Thursday? Friday?) I was walking down the hall with Darkside past the bookstore. On my way past, I snapped twice, said, "Bus pass", and snapped twice again.

Darkside snapped twice, said, "That was easy!", and snapped twice again.

Much to my surprise, I found that he'd saved "That was easy!" to my mnemonic system. Most other people's input probably would have been ignored. Evidently he has access to some of my mental functions that I thought were private. Odd.

Quizzy (topical)

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Happy, shaky

Gave plasma again today. Came home, took a nap, slept through part of the carpet-restretching (the carpet in the highest-traffic area had worn out at the place where it was tacked down, exposing sharp evil nails to step on), went to DeVry, got my bus pass for November, got my schedule confirmation printed out and handed in to the office (why, I ask you, does a technical whiz school require paper in the registration process?), then picked up Nephew from daycare.

After having finished his homework, he's now playing Gundam Wing shooting game until dinner is ready, then will go back to his game after he finishes dinner.

He'll be done with dinner quickly. Either that, or he'll fuss and whine about eating it at all, and may wind up in the corner for saying he'll eat it, then wandering off to play. If he's not going to eat it, fine, but if he says he'll eat it then doesn't, that's irresponsible and lying.

Got a glass of milk (yes, with the lactase so I won't regret it) so I am able to wait for dinner to come out of the oven. Mmm, fish.

Time-traveling...

20 years ago (1982), I...

...was just getting used to the concept of a baby sister, a "red, wrinkly, crying baby", as FatherSir so eloquently put it. He didn't want to give me any illusions about what was coming my way, so I wouldn't be disappointed. I blamed Grandma for everything, as she'd shown up when all the odd things were starting to happen.


15 years ago (1987), I...

...was in, what, the second grade? I was a fairy again for Halloween that year. It was a two-layer dress, light pink, with floaty filmy stuff over the solid pink fabric underneath. There was a wand, wings, a veil, and a fan that went with it. I'd been inspired a few years earlier by the Iron Fan Fairy when FatherSir took us to see the college's screening of a movie depicting part of Journey to the West, which I read in translation a few years later.

10 years ago (1992), I...

...was twelve, and was most likely in the seventh grade, struggling with socialization issues. I met Savil that year. She was cool. Galadriel and Gaia were still with the crowd at that point, though Gaia was drifting off some.


7 years ago (1995), I...

...was in the middle of a major depression triggered by having found real true friends as smart as I was, a lot of them, for the first time in my life, only to be removed from them with no real way of getting to see them any time soon. I still haven't seen any of them in person since then. I had just met That Idiot Shawn, and was getting to know him in drama class. I had just started dating the Lady E.


5 years ago (1997), I...

...was in the middle of another depression, most likely. It was the beginning of my senior year in high school. I was the Queen of the Library Monkeys. My fiancée and I had broken up over That Idiot Shawn, I'd done poorly in classes the year before, and failed Chemistry... but there was DC my new friend, my little sister was at the same school I was and was part of some of the same crowds, and I was starting to look pretty. Oh, and I kicked ass in art class.


1 year ago (2001), I...

...was stressing over school and work, madly in love with Darkside, worrying about childcare. Worrying about my weight. Playing Tetra Master, with myself as the card. Worrying about school. Going through some strange, huge changes. I'm changed from who I was then, but not as drastically as who I was then changed from 2000.

Yesterday, I...

...finished my two finals, did parent-teacher conferences, then did things at home. Contemplated drinking with the King of Elfland's daughter, but decided against it.


Today, I...

...Gave plasma, got stuff done at DeVry, took a nap.


Tomorrow, I...

...will be getting my teeth looked at, then will probably have some fun with the parent seminars at Nephew's school.

From last year's Halloween...

"Is Darkside in?" I asked his mom.

"Well, I'm not too sure about that," she said, "but there is something dead on my porch. I'll see if he's alive enough to talk to you."

I waited, and then I heard a voice from beyond the grave speak to me. "You...wanted.....to.... talk?"

Past...

Still, I wish Votania'd named him something other than ENKI. I can't diss Enki. No dissing the hacker god. No dissing the hacker god.