I haven't had painted fingernails in a long time. My toes, now, my toes have been red for so long that they look totally like they are not my feet (to me, at least) without polish, but my fingers, now, those have been bare for a long time. But they used to be painted all the time, for several years. I am having these odd moments when I see my fingers where they look alternately as though they belong to someone else, and then again as though they are completely mine.
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03:13:41 PM,Sunday 27 February 2005
The opera was probably all sold out, and Mari had to work. It was disappointing. But my roommates were both out, which meant I got the house to myself all day, and that was nice. I like that, sometimes, and I didn't have it on days when I usually do this week, and I felt all space invaded-y.
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01:08:26 AM,Sunday 27 February 2005
Today was slowly read Cicero and play with nasty-smelling chemicals day. I sprayed the pictures I'd printed out with some print-stay-spray stuff Chris said I had to use, andgave me a can of, while I took the polish off of my toes and repainted them. Then, for the first time in years, I painted my fingernails as I watched late night TV. I stated out with SNL, but it was boring, and I started flipping through chanels, and found Angel, so I watched Angel. Willow and Fred were totally flirting. And Fred seemed cooler than Kennedy.
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01:06:30 AM,Sunday 27 February 2005
I tried making rice pudding. I used too much sugar, and it mostly tastes like oatmeal.
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08:15:06 PM,Saturday 26 February 2005
I want a nice, good, addicting game on my computer with my CDs that go along. I want Civ, or the Sims. Or Kings' Quest, but I don't think I can actually play Kings Quest on this computer.
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06:47:04 PM,Saturday 26 February 2005
My evening routine of doing Pilates and watching reruns of sitcoms is blown by a friend of my roommates' getting snowed in and sleeping on our couch. I am sad. I think I will instead read Soul Music and listen to my iPod.
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11:33:33 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
Mari and I are going to see Aida this weekend.
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11:24:44 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
Someone told me yesterday that Penn has a section of the library for comic books. I found this totally bizarre. Then I remembered that people write academic papers about comic books, and if you're goign to do that, you'd better have them in your library. I'm thinking of going off in search of it and seeing if they have Hellblazer so I can read it and be even more snide about Constantine and Keanu Reeves than I am right now, considering my exposure to John Constantine was in one issue of Sandman and one of The Books of Magic.
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09:53:52 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
It's Everyone Talk to Their Sister Night. Jamie and I were on the phone for like forever, we broke cause she had to pee, and before she called me back, Molly's sister called.
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09:44:34 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
Harry Potter 6 will be printed on ancient forest friendly paper, at least in England. I think that's awesome.
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04:55:46 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
But yesterday I got a free song from iTunes with my Pepsi. And I have a cap for a free Pepsi, too, so maybe I will get two songs.
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04:53:51 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
I feel like I am having anger issues. I am used to my mornings in the house being just me, and yesterday MN was sick, so she didn't go to school. I was silently furious. And she was home when I got back from tea and Greek, and I'm not used to that, and I'm upset. And it feels dumb and mean, and that makes me even more upset.
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04:52:51 PM,Thursday 24 February 2005
I just started playing U2s new album on my iPod. I feel like a commercial.
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11:48:07 AM,Wednesday 23 February 2005
I seem to have accidentally taken Civ home.
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10:36:29 PM,Tuesday 22 February 2005
I love my new candles. They are very pretty. I did figure out how to spread hem about the room, and they put off enough light to light up the room.
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10:36:19 PM,Tuesday 22 February 2005
I felt stunned and stupid when I got off the bus--I wandered around blankly, trying to figure out how to get home, trying to figure out where I was (I found a number street, but the cross was something I didn't know, and so I only had a vague idea of where I was in relation to where I live, and while I can usually get home from downtown by quicklyy and easily finding a bus, I didn't know where Walnut St. was, and I had this vague idea that maybe I was supposed to take the subway). I thought I found a terminal for the subway, and then I thought s regional rail, which isn't what I was looking for (it's way farther to the University City Station than to the subway station, even though Spruce is nicer than 46th). And so I wandered around the Reading Terminal Market. I'm a bit bewildered by the Reading Terminal. As far as I can tell, all the trains run across the street. But the market is nice. I really enjoyed wandering around, looking at produce and breads and little gourmet chocolate shops and the spice shop and the place that only sold stuff that was made out of honey or beeswax. The spice shop sold bulk teas, and I nearly bought half a pound of vanilla almond tea, because Jamie stole my vanilla almond tea bags, and I pefer loose leaf anyway, but I didn't actually feel like carrying more stuff around. I did wind up buying samosas, and the nice woman told me how to get on the subway. The customer service people told me how to get on the bus that would take me home, and also how to buy Septa tokens (you buy a token for $1.30, and it takes the place of a $2 fare). And I took the subway, because, I don't konw, I feltl ike it, and I never had before. And then I walked down 46th St. and felt generally out of place and wished I'd taken the bus. I was exhausetd by the time I got back to my apartment. I sort of curled up on the couch and ate my samosas and watched the end of Molly's DVD of The L-Word. And then I worked on some Cicero and part of a Homeric Hymn to Dionysus ( a short one) and watched Garden State. I still feel all out of it. Moe and I cooked. I am trying to figure out where to put all the candles I got at Ikea--I don't actually have the surface area to put them around, but I do want them to be all around my room. They are pretty candles.
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10:22:06 PM,Tuesday 22 February 2005
I started The Last Unicorn on the bus home today. I fell asleep intermittantly throughout. I think the book is wonderful. Sometimes, there is just something about a piece of wonderful prose (at least in fantasy novels) that I actually can't sit and read it straight. I sit there and wish I could read it straight, but I can't. I feel asleep intermittantly as I read The Two Towers, and when I read The King of Elfland's Daughter immediately on the heals of The Lord of the Rings I couldn't sit through more than a chapter. It was turkey, and hot July, and hot as hell, and I don't fall asleep easily when it's hot, so I didn't sleep between chapters for that one. Schmendrick had just turned her into a person when the skyscrapers came into view and I became intrigued with watching Philadelphia approach.
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08:44:47 PM,Tuesday 22 February 2005
I have this theory that so long as I live in the city, I don't have to buy matches, I can just take them from restaurants. Considering I use matches rarely, and then only to light candles, it's a good theory. I took four boxes of matches from this restaurant we almost ate at after our Latin exam this past week, but they had $10 appetizers, so we went next door.
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12:07:12 PM,Saturday 19 February 2005
If this had happened say a day or two earlier, I would wonder if it had some effect on the Indian Plate.
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12:37:38 AM,Saturday 19 February 2005
Like three weeks ago, sometime around noon on Friday, while I wasn't at my computer, Katherine IMed me from Africa. So, now I try to be at my computer around noon on Fridays, in the off chance that there might be a Katherine to talk to.There is, in my spam folder (I tend to open up my spam folder to make sure nothing got misrouted) a message, with an attachment called "Re: Virus Sample." How stupid would you have to be to open that?
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05:27:39 PM,Friday 18 February 2005