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June 22nd 2002 - Yay Pridefest! Today was fun, and really really hot. I however am the well prepared person that brings over a liter of water with him. So needless to say, Kim, Liz, Michelle, Jenny, and Toya were probably really happy that I did. Because it was hot! Did I mention that? It was around 100 degrees with the heat indexes. I'm really glad that I was able to get someone to work at the pool for me today because otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to see Pridefest at all. I actually even bought some stuff! Since I still live at home and my dad doesn't know I'm gay, plus my mom and brother think I'm going to hell, I can't exactly put all kinds of stickers or rainbow anything on my car. But hopefully when I move out, I'll be able to since I bought some today! I also bought one of those pride necklaces. You know, the one that everyone and their mama has? That's okay though, because it's my first pride necklace and I like it. I also decided to buy a Human Rights Campaign t-shirt. Throw in lots of free information from all the booths and I got a lot of stuff! Oh yeah, I also bought a bamboo plant. I figured that their sales pitch was awesome. "No soil, no sunlight.." There was a couple of other things, but anyhow. Basically it means as long as you keep the plant with water, you can keep it in a CAVE and it won't DIE! Well, I hope it won't die. I am kind of disappointed because I don't get to go to Pridefest tomorrow since I have to work. Why? Because Eric told me that Judy Tenuda was going to be there! She's so funny and crazy. I remember when she was on Space Ghost Coast to Coast and she said the funniest thing. It was something like "Friends are just enemies who don't have the guts to kill you." Plus she has the whole accordian thing going for her! Anyhow, the other think about Pridefest is that it makes me kind of angry at the world. More so in fact. It really makes it in your face that people really don't like gay people. But since I don't feel like talking about that in this rant, I'll save it for later. On the homefront news,.. we now have a new dog. It's almost been a year since our last dog died (on Friday the 13th - the same day our air conditioner died) and I guess my mom decided she could handle a new one. My mom has always wanted a beagle for as long as she's been alive. My grandma's cousin, I believe, raises champion beagles for hunting or something and they gave my mom a beagle puppy. It's sort of sad because the puppy is blind in one eye, which is why they gave her to my mom because she wouldn't be a good hunting dog. She evidently got a claw in her eye right around after being born and now it's just gray and kind of bigger than her other eye and she can't see out of it. She's the cutest puppy (aren't all puppies cute?!) and her name is Bell (full name: Belladonna). I kind of think it's really depressing to watch Bell because I can tell she's incredibly sad and misses her mom and siblings. All she does is cry and whine and it's just so damned sad! I mean really, how would you feel if after you were born, some other people decided that you were cute and they were going to take you away from your family forever? I understand that she's a dog and people keep dogs as pets, but I can't listen to her sad cries and 'not' feel sorry for her! Well, I'm out of things to ramble about, sooo.. - chris
"10% Crowd, 100% Proud!" -- June 18th 2002 - Homophobia: Not a Phobia
"The findings suggest that social conditions and attitudes, not psychological factors, create homophobia, the researchers said. In other words, homophobia is closer to racism than it is to a phobia."
-- June 16th 2002 - I actually hadn't planned on writing a rant, but I can't for any reason think of an alternative for me to be doing. First off, I finally met Eric's girlfriend just this past monday at Shakespeare in the Park where a group of people did A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was awesome and great and funny. I didn't exactly get to talk to Catherine that much and she didn't say much in return, but I don't blame her because I'd certainly be quiet if I was surrounded by four people I didn't know. She seemed really nice though. Hopefully I'll get to see her again, maybe with less people, and we can chat it up about computers and stuff. .. I'm really sick of the commercials for the Lil Bow Wow movie coming out. I seriously doubt it's going to be any good. I'm definitely not fond of his music because it sounds retarded at best. What is he, like 12 or something? Talkin about getting with these girls and shit. He hasn't even hit puberty yet for Christ sake! He might as well make a song called "I got a crush on my babysitter." Either way, I thought of a way that might make him less annoying. Granted he'll still be annoying, but just less so. When I get it finished I'll make sure to post a link. Speaking of music, if you're thinking of creating a band but can't think up a name, how about Ambidextrous Amazon? See now, a regular amazon removes one breast so they can use the bow and arrow better. An Ambidextrous Amazon would remove 'both' breasts so they could use a bow and arrow with either arm! Eric thought up some more band names including "add two biscuits for 49 cents". Liz really liked that one actually. Since there are such odd band names out there already, it's pretty easy to play the game. Heck, right now I came up with "Iced tea makes me insane." Okay, enough with band names. Today was an interesting day at work. There's this one lifeguard that I talked to today for a little bit. Since he reads Maxim I can probably guestimate that he's straight, but you never know, because Maxim actually is a funny magazine. So far though, I don't know much about him. He did however say that two of his favorite books are 1984 and Brave New World. I've heard of Brave New World before. My friend Rose had to read it in her highschool english class. I never had to because I never got good enough scores on my writing assessments so I was always stuck in the normal english classes where we read stuff like "Rumble Fish" and "To Sir With Love." I actually haven't read a lot of books that people supposedly had to read in highschool. After looking up exactly what 1984 was about, I have to think that this guy maybe does have interesting thoughts running through his head. That seems rare at my job since everyone was completely blown away from watching me read my brother's Harry Potter books at work. It's like they've never read for fun, and they cringed when I mentioned the books were over 200 pages. At least on a nostalgic note, after checking out the summary of 1984, it reminded me completely of something I had to read in highschool for a Socratic Seminar. I actually had to call Rachel and ask her if she knew what it was called because I couldn't remember at all. I just remembered that it had something to do with noises that caused people to forget their thoughts and ballet dancers. Not much to go on, but I did it! Gotta love the internet. This piece in fact was called Harrison Bergeron, a short story among many in a book called Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It's kind of disappointing since I thought it was an actual book instead of a short story and thought it would be great to read, but it's still good anyhow. Lastly, work day ended on a bad note. Evidently at the beginning of work my brother had a game going to guess the name of a family reunion. His friend who is also a lifeguard was raising money for something called Relay for Life and she needed to raise about 100 dollars. The game between the staff was to help raise money for her. They raised a little more than half of the money too! For reasons beyond my knowledge, the money was placed in a ziplock bag and set on a table next to the cash register for the whole day. I wasn't really on my mind as it wasn't my money and not my responsibility. When we were closing up, I just took our drawer and went to count it down and help train the new girl on how to do it as well. I didn't even 'think' to get the other money too. Since so far everyone has guessed what happened, congratulations! Yep, it was stolen by some punk kids, most likely the last ones to leave the pool because I had seen them hanging out by the door (really close to the money) minutes before it was taken. They're even regulars! And there's nothing we can even do about it. We can't go accusing these kids because we don't have proof, but I'm almost positive that they did it. Even if it wasn't them, it had to have been some other person who took it. So everyone was pretty upset about it needless to say. It's sad that the lesson we had to take with us after work was "You just can't trust people." I don't care if I get fired or not, but I'm definitely not going to be nice to these kids when they come back. Thankfully they didn't steal the other cashier's purse which was sitting around the same vicinity. I hope that whoever stole the money gets what's coming to them in the form of something negative. - chris "I suggest we only get the dog after the cat has died." -- June 13th 2002- Eric here. Ah, i hate it when im stupid. Why am i stupid? For a stupid reason. I'm a big fan of The Who, great band, one of the greatest bands. And they recently came out with a usual "ultimate collection" cd, of all their great hits, its two cd's and has alot great songs on them. But i also have a greatest hits cd, PLUS a 4 cd box set, which is the greatest box set out there. But i bought it anyway! WHY!? Probably because it came with a sticker and an extra bonus CD that "contained rare and unreleased songs"! What are those songs? songs that are on the cds, just slightly different versions, im very hurt. Because now, even though it was 15 bucks, im like "i could have gotten another cd, why did i get a cd with a bunch of songs i have on other cds, when i could have gotten a completely NEW cd that has all new songs i havnt heard!?" ah, im stupid. But not really, i got it because of the sticker and they are really good songs, great songs, and i was interested in the bonus disc. And 15 bucks isnt a huge amount, but still. Kinda dissapointed. BUT! I am not dissapointed in the other cd i got, The White Stripes' White Blood Cells. I havnt gotten all they way through it yet but its awesome! I like them. Very very cool, and its just two people! But they sound like a huge band. Im kind of bored, i dont know what to do. Ive been running around all day, i bought a bit more than i should have, even though ive probably only spend 25 bucks. I got a cd (the who) and a video game (super mario world, that was only 5) and i got a cool new GI joe comic. Very cool. And now i want ice cream. A big gigantic ice cream. I havnt had anything to eat all day you know. Well somewhat. I had a bowl of cereal this morning. But nobody is home, Catherine is out of town, Jessie is at work, Chris is at work. And ya know what bugs me most about the Who CD i got, it was either that or the new Wilco cd. Im not a fan of wilco, i say that because i havnt ever heard any of their stuff, but ive heard tidbits of the new one, and alot of good stuff about it, so i figured i would get it. But then i got the Who Cd, WHY!? Granted i make a good amount of money and i have enough to get both, and thats why i got the who cd, i figured i would just get the wilco one later, which i guess i will. Im just like that. I dont buy a whole lot of stuff but when i buy something useless i feel bad. ah well, guess thats the rules, but here there are no rules, but the only rule is is that there ARE NO rules!! But lots of leprechauns. Lots. -- June 11th 2002- MANATEE GAS!! Hey!! I saw a midsummer's nights Cream! The greatest hits of the classic rock band Cream put in the costumes of merry old england! How did that one song go? "in the white room, with black curtains, theres a bunny" and then crazy psychadelic guitar work. But I also saw a midsummers nights dream and it was great! And not just cause i was with my girlfriend and my friends, but because my girlfriend turned into a monster hampster because of the lunar eclipse! WOW! I didnt think she would, but she proved me wrong again! And i just cant type today, ive had about 50 errors in this paragraph alone. But anyway, the shakespeare in the park performance of a midsummer's night's dream was great, alot of fun, and incredibly funny. Im going to go see it again with my friend Jessie. I don think she will turn into a monster though. Or a hamster. But maybe a halibut. Hey www.geocities.com/chrisericus/indexmain.html fans, tell me, how do YOU think that i can convince my friends that they and i should join together and become "Geritol Jones and the Banana Crunch Bunch?" Just inquiring. But last night was alot of fun, and thankfully it didnt rain, though today we are gathering up two of every animal, except for the nasty ones. OH fuck its Dan Palmer!! That is one of the nasty animals, Im going to try and hide behind my terminal. YAY!! The subterfuge has worked! Is subterfuge lying and cheating to get what you want, or is it something else? Something....wicket. i mean wicked. Or wicket. I may or may not know what subterfuge is but by god i know its furry and about four feet tall. I was going to stop by Chris' house and talk to him and see what he thought about last night and what he thought about Catherine but he wasnt home, and he isnt at work because the pool is closed because its raining. Avoiding me!? Perhaps. Is he in Beliz plotting the assasination of a hermit crab? Perhaps. Is he part of the judging panels of Maxim's hottest women of 2002?!?!?! Probably not. Though he would probably pick Angelina Jolie. I would pick this woman at the librarian, she IS a librarian, not because she is hot though, not in the attractive sense, but because i swear THIS WOMAN IS THE DEVIL!! She is just always very mean looking, and scary, and mean looking. Right now she is perched atop a stack of books like a buzzard, scanning the grounds for carrion to befoul. And she is such a strange specimen, her torso is rather large, she has a big belly and broad shoulders and big ol old woman boobs, but her legs are like twigs! Its like this big devil buzzard ball on stilts. And she looks like a turtle. Speaking of turtles, Catherine has a turtle, he lives in their basement, and she was outside with him and Andrew and they were kinda letting him roam around and play and Andrew kept dumping water on him, i think he thought he needed to be wet. But I called her about the play and she was outside with him, and the second time i called they had come inside because it started raining, and Andrew got the phone and started telling me about Tippy (thats the turtle's name, cute name. It aint Geritol Jones and the Banana Crunch Bunch but still cute) and its cute to hear a little kid say "tippy!" and he said that he got Tippy all wet because he dumped water on him, and i told him that i got all wet the day before (because of my grandparents anniversary party at my aunts house, who have a pool and kids who will pull you into the pool, fully dressed) and he asked me how i got all wet and i told him that a turtle dumped a bucket of water on my head, and the next thing i heard was him sounding all excited telling Catherine that a turtle dumped water on my head, it was really cute. Awww there's another little one here, a tiny little girl, aw she so cute. But anyway, Andrew also made me a picture! Its cool. He's a good painter. MAN THAT CHAIR IS SQEAKIN!!! Palmer, in a wooden chair. Chris will know what im talkin about. But for the rest of you, you dont! And you must thank whatever higher power you may wish for that luck. I really dont know what else to write about, though im sure ill think of something so i might just keep this thing open and write more later, but for right now, if any of you were wondering just WHAT me and Catherine talk about, here is a snippet of a conversation between us! we were getting some soda at the play and she laughed about something goofy a little kid asked his mother and i said
" I once asked my mom if she named me Eric because i like air. yea, i was 16 when i asked her that."
Catherine gives a strange look
"nah, i was really like 4 or 5 i think. why did you name Andrew Andrew?"
"i just like the name. Actually I like Drew, but i want him to know what his name is so i still call him Andrew."
"yea, Drew is a good name. Hey! OR you could call him Ann!!"
and then she laughed and slapped me and took my wallet! Ah good times. Why did she take my wallet? because my wallet is actually a battery and i am actually a robot. FUELED BY LEATHER! Thats why im wearing nothing but leather, leather underwear, leather pants, a leather shirt, a leather bra..oh wait...no, im not wearing a leather bra..I dont need a bra. But you know, i might need a leather one. I wonder if that guy ever wrote Chris back and told him what kind of content we should add to the website. I wonder if he was talking about this kind of content.
"where the only rule is that there are no rules....but lots of leprechauns!!" -- June 8th 2002 - It's a damn shame when I have to find out about my best friend's diseases through the website! Eric never even 'told' me he had vitiligo!! And I thought we were friends! HA! Ah well, I'll get over it. I guess having a few white friends is okay. So yeah, anyway. You know what the sucky thing about my brother and I getting along well is? That I feel bad when I tell other people his business! Er.. and he finds out that is. It's okay to say on the website because a) no one 'reads' our rants as they are just for us so as when we're 50 yrs old we can look back on our lives because we won't be able to remember them, and b) .. um, actually there was just the a) so nevermind. Anyhow, so my brother was first going out with Girl A and she was really really nice and I liked her a whole lot. Then they broke up because of long distance relationship problems among other things. Then my brother started going out with Girl B, you remember.. the girl who was way younger than him? ;] Either way, I really liked her as well but my brother broke up with her for reasons that I'm not quite sure of. It might have been a long distance thing again. Well, eventually my brother went 'back' out with Girl A and everything was okay except for the distance thing and then they decided it wasn't working out so they should cool things down a little bit. My brother really liked Girl A so much he wouldn't mind marrying her, so was happy that he might be able to still go out with Girl A, but was still pissed off that Girl A didn't know what she wanted in a relationship and therefore was just stringing my brother along. So when my brother came back in town for this summer, him and Girl A went on a date and at the end of it she told him that she found this new guy who lives in Florida and that she was going to go live with him for the summer. This practically tore my brother's heart out and a tractor trailer did some U-Turns on it. Girl A then had the audacity to tell my brother that she wasn't sure they could ever be the same or even friends again. THEN a couple of weeks later Girl A mails a birthday card to my brother two months late, which he got yesterday and it was a gift certificate to Bread Co. She's just WIERD!! Oh yeah, so anyway. Girl B works at the pool with my brother and I and she knew about my brother being sad but he didn't tell her why. She asked 'me' if my brother and Girl A were still together and I basically told her everything I just said with the inclusion that my brother is giving up on women for a long while. We then both promised each other that we wouldn't tell my brother that a) she asked about Girl A and b) that I told her all that stuff. Well, Girl B decides (probably) that she either wants to try and get back with my brother or that she's just concerned so she goes to my brother TONIGHT and starts asking all about Girl A out of the blue. My brother isn't a moron and instantly came to me and was talking about how Girl B was asking him about Girl A and how "weird" that was and if I knew anything about it. He then preceeded to give me "the look" which means he knows I'm guilty of something so I might as well give in. I have to say that of the people who know me, my brother knows me pretty well, and I am INCAPABLE of lying to him. So I tell him that yes, I did in fact tell Girl B about him and Girl A and he was kind of disappointed in me but swears he wasn't. I just got the feeling he was. He said he was more angry that Girl B would go behind his back and grill me about Girl A when she could have just gone to him in the first place. He continued to say he wasn't angry at me, but I could totally tell he was sad since he said all he wanted to do tonight was get drunk. He did invite me to come along, but I'm not going because I'd feel weird and especially because I really doubt he would want me to go. My brother never told me that I 'couldn't' tell anyone about Girl A, but I'm sure I should have just known that it's an unwritten rule to 'not' go blab things to an ex-girlfriend about other ex-girlfriends. Either way, I'm a clod and should be shot. Other than that I've had a great day! (not really) Our cash register was short for the umpteenth time and it's pissing me off. I'm not saying I don't or can't make mistakes concerning the money, but I'm almost positive I'm not! When I was at the ice rink my drawer was perfect 95% of the time, and the other 5% I was off by a couple of quarters. Now we're talking about 5 dollars short, 20 dollars short, 14 dollars short, etc. It sucks because we have three different people working the register throughout the day so I can't exactly say who's f-ing up, but I still want to say it's not me. A lot of good it does me though because either way, if we keep coming up short, something bad is going to happen. And concerning hanging out with my brother, I'd love to do that, but I just don't think I can. Maybe if I was hanging out with my brother, just us two, then I could. Otherwise I don't know how to act around his friends. It's not like I'm mister sociable 'now'. I can have conversations with my friends till the cows come home, but with strangers I just run out of things to say and then I get labeled "anti-social" or "quiet" or something stupid. I'm also not exactly "fun" by a lot of people's standards. I enjoy just staying in and chatting or doing other things. I dislike bars because they're expensive and dumb, and I don't dance so clubbing is out not to mention that clubs are like bars [which are still expensive and dumb], and there really isn't that much else to do around here. If my brother had possibly gotten me accustumed to hanging out with his friends then I'd probably be okay with it. The trouble is, my brother 'never' asked me to go hang out with his friends. Hell, even during the holidays, him and my cousin would go out all the time and I'd never get invited. I was stuck having retarded holidays by myself and it was very boring. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why I'm not exactly the most family oriented person on the planet. Okay, well I'm done bitching now. I'm gonna go on my self-loathing kick for a while. - chris "You know.. that song.. the one that goes.. 'somethingsomethingsomething because you're so ug-ly!' Know what I'm talking about??" -- June 8th 2002- Its Eric here! And Chris thinks HIS diseases are bad!? I have vitiligo!!! I'm going to start looking like a white person!! "ow...small type hurts my eyes" -- June 7th 2002 - Wow, Eric had some funny things to say. This is Chris btw. I had kind of lost my memory after that whole zombie-brought-back-from-the-dead thing considering the fast food choice murder Eric decided to pull (he's so persuasive!). Me? I'm great. Actually pretty good for having those two diseases which really aren't all that bad, they just kind of suck. I'm trying my hardest not to pop my jaw, but I'm so used to it, it's driving me crazy to stop! That'd be funny if I really was driven crazy from that, but then again, I also have to stop biting my nails. Geez, if stopping habits made people crazy.. what a more interesting world this would be! Smokers beware! Work is, well, odd.. and disgusting.. and odd. Today I had two very full trash bags leak all over me because of the holes brought upon them from the very bad containers they were in. Thankfully no one puked on the deck or pooped on the walls or floor, because that's just raunchy. I seriously want to make signs that say "We are not your momma, take your shit with you (literally and figuratively)." I also saw two people I used to go to school with but have never talked to. It's weird when you see people like that because you know you recognize each other, but really, you mean nothing at all because why would you speak in the first place? It's not an entirely uncommon thing to have happen, but I still don't like it necessarily. Hm.. I have to agree with Eric that the Hamtaro show on Toonami is actually kind of cute, even if it is kind of stupid. I'm really more happy that they brought back Sailor Moon which comes on right before Hamtaro. I know Sailor Moon's supposed to be a girl show, but damn if it's not just a good show! Funny too! Maybe it's an anime thing, who knows. The only other complaint I have is that I hate Hotmail. It's my main email provider and I used to have no problems at all. Now however it's the slowest thing in the world! I've tested it for all kinds of things and it's not my internet connection, it really is just Hotmail. They're dumb! Soo, now I have to find a new email provider. I guess I could just use my yahoo one, but they're not exactly the best either. Grr.. Oh, and my brother has completely hooked me on Harry Potter. Before I had only just seen the movie, and thought it was really good, but now my brother got me to read the books. I finished the first two in less than a day, and I just finished the third one in about the same time. I'm bummed because my brother lent his fourth book to one of his friends and she hasn't given it back to him, and also there's a fifth book which two people have told me is either only in Mexico, or is only in England. I don't really know which. I can't wait to see if Catherine changes into a monster or a hamster on the day of the solar eclipse. Either would be fine with me since they both end in "ster". - chris "You read two books in one day??! I could never do that!" -- June 7th 2002-Hey its Eric again, with more fun! And stereotypes!! Not really. Last night i went and saw Undercover Brother with Catherine. Okay, last night i drug Catherine to see Undercover Brother. And i drugged her! She's alot of fun anyway, but man when you drug her up and get her all hopped up on PCP she is a RIOT!! The way she picked up that car and threw it through the mall, damn, i just couldnt stop laughing. Much like how i was while watching Undercover Brother! Its a really stupid movie, but its pretty funny. I love Conspiracy Brother, who is played by the always hilarious Dave Chapelle. Gotta love him. But the entire movie is pretty funny. I've taken to calling Catherine White She-Devil too. If you see the movie you'll understand that, cause its funny. AND i spun my car around alot and flipped it and made it roll a few times, and never once did i spill my orange soda. Quite the feat. Or feet, since i now have two of them. Before i just had one foot, so i could only say "my foot hurts" and everybody would know which foot i was talking about, but all my life i longed to use plurals, and now i finally can! And somehow i have a cut on my foot, or foots, im not sure where it came from, maybe from my adventuring around the other day, that was fun. I went to all kinds of places, and found new things, which is always a beautiful occasion when you can discover new things at any age. What should YOU discover!? Well, i think, personally, you should go to www.thestrokes.com and see the video for Hard to explain! Or see it on the tv, but they probably wont show it because its an incredibly good song and MTV just likes to show crap. But i love that video! And usually videos just suck ass and its a bunch of stupid people around doing nothing or it has no point at all. And maybe this one doesnt either but its just cool! Much like the strokes. AND you should go to www.grantleephillips.com and hear the great new song he has on his website, Buckaroo. If you listnened to me a few months ago you should have gone and listened to Hugos Theme/Sundays Best, and now he has a new song up there, Buckaroo. Great song too. Ah music, its so good. Did i talk about bad music last time? probably, like Five For Fighting and the guy who has a really high voice. Yea probably. I hate them. Umm, and who else. eh it doesnt really matter.
For those of you who have many many bumper stickers on your car, i ask you one question, and thats why? And then i ask you alot of follow up questions. But i love it when people have bumper stickers that contradict the message they are trying to get across with said bumpersticker. Like the car that had a thousand "say no to violence!" and "stop violence!" stickers, but then right in the middle of the back of the car they have "America fights back!!" And today i saw one that said "Execution is NOT a solution!" But it said it like this "EXECUTION is NOT the SOLUTION" with the words "is" and "the" in extremely small print, so from even a few feet away the bumper sticker reads "Execution NOT Solution" And that just says to me "killing people is the best way, why try and have any other solution?" Which i agree with. The other day Chris and i were going to get something to eat, and he wanted to go to burger king, i wanted to go to mcdonalds, so i killed him. I brought him back to life of course, but now he's changed....he doesnt move around that much, he doesnt talk, and i dont think he is bathing because he is starting to smell. But he goes through those spells all the time, so im not worried. You know what i AM worried about though!? Today is my grandparents 50th anniversary. The family is having a big party for them tomorrow, and im bringing Catherine to it, so she is going to meet my family. So potentially, i have less than 24 hours of having a girlfriend left. Its not that my family is crazy, its not that they are the Manson family or anything (though they do try their best) its just that sometimes i think the manson family was a bit less...crazy. Hopefully my aunt Cindy wont try and convince Catherine that Andrew is the reincarnation of my dead uncle Terry, trying to make his way back into the family, but im not ruling out that she might try that. Cindy, by the way, beleives that Terry (her brother in law) comes to her in dreams and tells her to do things. Such as destroy the microwave that her sister, and his widow, Chris, was going to give to her new boyfriend. Or like the time that she told people that Terry came to her in a dream last fall and gave her a list of the people who were spreading the anthrax through the mail. Also she said that Chris got pregnant and had an abortion, and that that aborted child was the reicarnation of Terry, trying to get back to the family. Hey, yea its all possible, i dont really rule anything out, which is why im not ruling out that i should have good reason for keeping the car running when we go. The rest of the family is a bit saner though. But just a bit.
And also, come monday, Catherine will get to meet Chris and Rachel when we go and see A mid-summer's night's dream, in forest park. That should be fun, and im not worried about that encounter. But also, there is a solar eclipse and Chris believes, or just thinks it would be cool, which i concur, that Catherine might become a monster with big wings, a tail and one big fang (because she lost the other one in a battle.) That would be awesome! Or if she turned into a hamster, like in the cartoon Hamtaro. That would be so cute!! But i mean, she is beautiful and very cute and sweet and nice and alot of fun, but wouldnt all relationships be even better if one of the persons became a giant monster, OR cuddly little hamster every time there was a solar eclipse? You know there would be. But what if two people go together who both became monsters, or hamsters, or a mix of the two. What if she becomes a monster hamster? WHAT IF she becomes a monster that only eats hampsters!? I couldnt go for that. Hampsters are too cute. Im going to go to hampster dance.com right now! WHAT THE FUCK HAVE THEY DONE TO MY HAMPSTERS!?!?!?!!? They have completely changed it all around! It doesnt have the cute music or the hampsters, they've sold out!!! The hampsters have gone all commercialized on us and left me here in the dust! God is there NOTHING i can believe in now!?!?!? I'm wiping away a tear, a giant, hampster shaped tear. I wonder if Catherine became a hampster if she would eat monsters....that would restore my faith, in the hampster.
"WHAT THE FUCK HAVE THEY DONE TO MY HAMPSTERS!?!?!?!" -- June 6th 2002- WOW! Reading Chris rants i got the urge to bring some FUN back to this website!! Hold on a minute.....HAHAHAHAHA!!! whoo, that was some fun. -- June 4th 2002 additional - I wish my mom would stop bringing up that all the people I used to know in church are getting married all of a sudden. There's seriously around 8 or 9 people I went to church with who are getting married and they're getting their Bachelors degrees. I just know my mom doesn't count her lucky stars that she doesn't have my life. I'd 'love' to get married some day mom, but the rest of the world including you won't let me! My parents or grandparents must have pissed God off something fierce for him to wreak his retribution on me. Or if you believe in karma, I was a complete and total f-k head in my previous life. - chris -- June 4th 2002 - Well, life is good, and then again, it's bad. So far, I've worked four days at the pool and I like it. The lifeguards and cashiers are really friendly and it's just a nice atmosphere even if it is around 100 degrees and f-ing humid outside. The down part to the job is the bodily fluid cleanup that the cashiers have to do since the lifeguards have to be protected from all of that. My first official day I had to pick up a pair of underwear that was filled with poop from the guys shower/change section. It was the grossest thing in the world even if I was wearing latex gloves. My brother told me today that he made the other cashier, who I really like and think is funny, wear the contamination compliance suit today because some kid puked on the pool deck. It's basically a plastic suit that keeps your body not in contact with bodily fluids. And since it's still 100 degrees, wearing a plastic suit is really really hot! She wasn't having fun wearing it, but my brother promised her he'd buy her a six pack of beer for doing it. Sounds like my job is going to be really disgusting aside to being really easy. Today though, wasn't exactly a good day. I went to my normal quack doctor yesterday and he told me all the stuff he normally does and tries to prescribe me all kinds of medicine for fun because I think he gets a bonus or something every prescription he chucks out. So really it was stupid going to him other than the fact he's going to start giving me allergy shots. My wonderful nurse whom I love to see wasn't there and I think she may have quit and that made me sad. I loved Camilla! She was awesome and she even tried to find me a job at a couple of places. She was just a great lady, but anyhow. So the new nurse didn't know what the hell she was doing, didn't know how to take blood pressure 'or' pulse, and pretty much lied on my sheet and wrote down random numbers that "sounded good" after looking at my past visits. Since I think this doctor's office is a joke anyway, (though they are damned friendly!), I just said I was fine and went on my merry way. Today I went to the otolaryngologist which is a ear/nose/throat doctor. I figure that since my ear is all cracked out he'd be able to tell me something more specific than my current doctor. Well, he did, and as happy as I am that he ruled out my ears as being problems, I wasn't happy with the diagnosis he gave me. My life progressivly continues to suck day after day evidently. This is now 'two' diseases I've been diagnosed with in less than a month, and both of them there are no clear cut "cause" and therefore no effective solution. The first, when I went to the dermatologist to check out this odd birthmark that my mom swears I never had when I was born actually 'was' a birthmark. It was just a time released delay birthmark, but I don't remember what it was called. The dermatologist however noted that I had something called livedo on my hands and feet. It's this lacy-purple-colored-veiny-blood-vessels and they appear when I get even the slightest bit cold. I always figured it was because I wasn't tan or something. Either way, they don't know what causes it and it's a life-long thing. Now back to today, the doctor diagnosed me with TMJ, which is a f-ked up jaw disease (temporomandibular joint disease) and nothing cures it and they don't know how people get it. The real messed up thing is that getting a jaw implant or replacement is even WORSE than just living with it at all. I now have to stop chewing gum completely, and a couple of other suggestions that are pretty much common knowledge, but it still sucks having someone tell you these things. It also wasn't great that the doctor I went to is (I'm guessing) a children's doctor so the room they led me into was FRIGHTENINGLY SCARY!!! It was pink had (no lie) wall to wall pigs. Pig EVERYTHING. If it was a pig, or if it had a pig on it, it was in this room on countless shelves. I wanted to curl up into a ball and shake because it was just too much pig stuff. There was even a big pink bright neon sign in the shape of a pig! Neon sign as in neon gas light sign, not just really brightly colored markers or something. So, I'm looking ahead into the future and figuring that by the time I'm 50 I'm going to be some decrepid old fart stuck in a chair that has to wash myself with a rag on a stick. Hell, my life is going so peachy I think I'll go down to my local shady alley and attempt to contract Hepetitus or something. Oh well. The really cool thing about Monday though was that Liz told me Bill actually wrote me an email all about the website! I was totally excited, but it sucks because I either a) deleted it because it wasn't labelled strikingly enough for me to tell it from all the junk mail I get, or b) it never even got to me. Thus ends yet another brilliantly shining couple of days for me, in which tomorrow I will start filling out stuff for my new college because they called and said I got accepted, yay me. - chris "Gee, I sure hope the previous telescope owner didn't have pink eye." -- June 1st 2002 - I just 'had' to open my big mouth and say "well, there's always tomorrow." I really believe that someone put up fliers or something that say "Do you now or have you ever known Chris? Well, give him a call!" Because yesterday I got 'another' call from people who I haven't spoken to in forever. These people would be from high school, one of them being Drea who's the other girl who owes me 60 bucks but that I figure I'm not expecting to get it back. They called and said they wanted me to come hang out with them. I inveritably didn't want to. So, after I got the message, I decided that I would leave my house because they're the type of people to possibly and unexpectedly show up. Eric was here when I called Rachel to tell her all about the continuing freakness of my week and she suggested that I go over to her apartment. I said sure and Eric said he'd come along too since he's never seen Rachel's new apartment yet. What I didn't know was that Rachel's apartment temperature would rival that of mount vesuvious when not dormant. This apartment was HOT. That's because Rachel is okay with the heat and refuses to use the air conditioner. So we decide to go get some ice cream, then go to Forest Park to see some fountain. I wasn't exactly having a great time because my nose was running 'like' a fountain because my allergies were kicking into high gear with the hot and extremely humid weather we've been having. Really though, I'm not liking this whole "get in touch with Chris" week and I can't wait for it to end. Ah well, now off to my first day of work at the pool, weee, I can hardly contain my joy. - chris "'What's it like, being gay?'
'What's it like, having a period? Bout the same, less bleeding.'"
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