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4:41 PM + I hope you all have a good weekend. Maybe next week won't be as hectic as this week has been. I haven't been able to read any journals or blogs, not to mention maintain my own. I am going to post a quick little cute story though before I leave work today and then go home and enjoy my weekend.

Be safe, well and smiley, friends!

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11:50 AM + 1. What was the first thing you ever cooked? Aside from toast? Probably Cream of Wheat. I'm not really sure. I remember learning how to make perfect grilled cheese sandwiches in high school (I was known as the NO-COOK cooker; I hated it). Nowadays, however, I'm fantastic.

2. What's your signature dish? I make fantastic stir fry and yummy desserts.

3. Ever had a cooking disaster? (tasted like crap, didn't work, etc.) Describe. I do recall actually crying once when I made something horrible, but it was so disastrous, I've blocked it out. However, refer to the above grilled cheese experiment. At home, we used blocks of cheddar cheese and I loaded slices of it on the bread. The pan was soaked; the two pathetic pieces of bread were just swimming in this pool of cheddar cheese. After it cooled, my brother ate it--sogginess and all.

4. If skill and money were no object, what would make for your dream meal? Will I never get full? I'd make my great corn on the cob rolled in feta cheese and cayenne pepper with lime; salad salad salad (I love salad); Grecca Pasta from Aladdin's Natural Eatery; and I'm sure something else that's tantalizing.

5. What are you doing this weekend? Tonight, I'm going to a friend's house for a party (a friend of Matt's that has become mine over time). Matt and his fiancee will be there. Jon and I, I think, will watch a lot of movies. I'd like to get my hair cut and perhaps treat myself to a pair of shoes.

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9:17 AM + Boy, do I have a funny story to share with you. It's not comical-funny, but it's ironic.

In my office, I'm one of the few that knows HTML, but of this few, I'm probably the one who knows it second to the best, who is the supervisor of office production, and so has few time to mess around with it.

About one month ago, I was assigned to design a web page based on a client's recently published brochure advertising a math class of some sort. Without my knowledge, however, they gave the job to somebody else after my supervisor apparently said that I would have no time to do work outside editorial work (she claimed I would be very busy). We all know how far from the truth that is. After all, I complain just about daily about the lack of work in my job.

Nobody told me I wasn't doing the page anymore, but then again, nobody was giving me the information I wold need to make the page. Finally, at a status report meeting in which we discuss all the jobs, the big boss asked how far along the designer and the coder were in the page. Only he didn't use my name in there at all, but somebody else's, who doesn't know code by hand--only through templates. (Which she can't make.)

Now I like this woman very much, but she called me into her office almost every day for help which gave me a bit of a chuckle; her too since she had gotten in a fight with the big boss over me when she insisted I know more and should have some control (Go!).

Well, yesterday I was busy the entire day when the designer went to my supervisor and said "Listen. She knows how to do this; we need it done. Can she do it?" My supervisor said yes and now it's finished.

Isn't that funny to you too, somehow?

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Tuesday, February 12, 2002

4:57 PM + Jon and I are having a mental health day tomorrow, which means I'm calling in sick. I'll see (hehe) you on Thursday. Have a great day with lots of smiles!

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4:52 PM + I've posted a new entry. Have a great night, guys. I'm going to eat sushi and then see a weird movie at the film house. The movie is called "Erotikon." (Don't ask me; I go for surprises!)

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Monday, February 11, 2002

1:32 PM + I posted a quick new entry. It's about Matt. I'm not sure if I should simply email him and say, "Are we trying to be friends, or do prefer we not?" or ignore it. I need some closure though. I just want to know. I want to know if he invited me just to make his fiancee less nervous about me (I don't know how this works, but I'm sure if he ignores me enough, she'll see he has no interest for me--which he did do, by the way), or if he hasn't written back because he's busy; didn't get the email; is nervous about being friends? I don't know. I don't know!! It seems so stupid to be hung up about it, but I thought about it: by the time I was 13, I had been to 13 different schools. I never had a moment to make a good friend and was always nervous to have them. After five years, the longest I had ever known anybody, I really enjoyed having him as my friend. Then to have him suddenly ignore me and live only ten minutes away? It hurts, you know? Grrr... I have to do this work.

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9:31 AM + I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update. Here's my belated Friday Five:

1. What's the most romantic thing you've ever done for someone else? I actually can't really remember. Jon isn't much of a romantic and makes me feel foolish when I try...it takes a lot of confidence to not be swayed or insulted. I manage, however, to be romantic by leaving notes. I've done this for just about all my boyfriends. Little slips of paper that say "I love you" or some other comment on them--in his wallet, car seat, toiletry bag. That kind of thing. Not so swell, huh?

2. [pardon the cosmo question] What are your erogenous zones? I think the outer edge of my ears, my fingers and my shoulders.

3. How old were you the first time you had sex? Care to expound? Not my best moment. I was 16 (barely or almost, one of the two). Buick Skylark. Front seat. He said, "Do you want to?" I said, "I don't know." And he went for it. Hurt like a son of a bitch; he had "tricks," as well, that he thought would make it easier for me next time. Yeah. I didn't appreciate that either.

4. What's the most unusual place you've ever had sex? A picnic bench at a lake in Vermont.

5. Do you have plans for Valentine's Day or is it just another Thursday? I don't! We know we're going to take "mental health day" then (aka: call in sick), but I really don't know what to do.

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