A Day in the Life...

4/18/03 As sad as it is... I must say that this is the last entry of "A Day in the Life." But luckily for you, my avid readers, I'll be journaling even MORE (I made about seven entries on the first day and had to delete a few) on a new site: The Heart of Fools Speaks. Check it out and let your heart be gladdened by the good tidings. I can now use snazzy little jumpy thingies that look vaguely like a Tomagotchi to describe my emotion at the moment of my post, not to mention what I'm listening to... Observe in awe and admiration... You, too, can make a journal on the site. And you should!

4/4/03 I am so frigging bored and lonely. I've checked my email and all the usual discussion boards about eight times each in the past half hour in the desperate hope that someone, anyone, has left me a message. But no. No, you have forsaken me. I think perhaps I'll go have a drink and feel sorry for myself some more.
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half an hour later...
I'm back. Does anyone at all know just how fucking (sorry, Mom) sick of Free Cell I am?? Why can't I stop playing it? Oh, I forgot to mention above that I tried to make a birthday present for someone today and it was turning out really, really cool, like better than I'd thought it would, and then I screwed it up. That pretty much pissed me off. What a shocker, eh? *wry grin* <- I'm not in the mood for any other type. Yeah. Stuff... Maybe I can fix it, though. We'll see. Well, I'll see. You probably won't. Unless you're Ryan. In which case you will.

3/8/03 Hello... Dunno why, but I haven't been much interested in updating the site lately. As if you couldn't tell. *grin* I'm having fun doing illustrations for the upcoming magazine at work. Squirrels, plants, chicken coops, whatnot. All sorts of stuff. And my co-workers have managed to get me sucked back into playing Magic. I've built two decks in the past week. (one green and white, one all blue). On a random note, tomorrow is my first day teaching Sunday School. Wish me luck! I've got the first graders.

1/28/03 Work is slow. Life is slow. But I had a fun time on Sunday over at a coworker's house. See pictures here.

1/15/03 Aaaaaahh... I have my apartment back. As much as I love spending time with my dear sweet sister, it's comforting to have the quiet back. Anyway... I added a couple pics to my artwork page. Check out "A Girl and Her Longsword" and "Elven Wizard". The actual pictures are about a year old, but we just got a new scanner (never got around to updating the drivers for our old one) and I had to try it out. So... yup. That's about it.

1/10/03 Well, I've changed my resolution. Because, see, I realized why I haven't been able to make any progress on the story. And that reason is: It is a stupid story. The characters are dumb, the plot is dumb and no one will like it. So. That figured out, I've abandoned the project for the time. Not like I'm throwing it all away or anything; just shoving it into the closet. :) So, yeah, I'm starting a new book project. One that I actually care about. I'm doing a set of children's books with a theme. One book per Unitarian Universalist principle. And then stick them in a box set and sell them to religious ed programs at UU churches. With a niche market like that, I should be able to do fairly well.
And on unrelated issues, I GOT A SKATEBOARD YESTERDAY! Woo hoo! It's so awesome. But at the moment, it kicks my ass. I'll put a picture up here so you can see its awesomeness.

1/4/03 Vacation felt much shorter than it should've. I actually had to work today (Saturday!!) too. On a better note, I took a rather suicidal gamble in a D&D game today (in game, not rl...) and lived through it. So far. So that's cool. Just need to pump some more xp into my bard and she'll be better. Think I'll add a level of rogue. For those of you that could care less about Dungeons and Dragons, sorry. That was the highlight of my day. But anyway, happy New Year and stuff. My resolution this year is to finally finish the children's book I've been working on.

12/20/02 Ahhh... winter break... No more work till the third of January... Just added a family tree thingy to the site, and then noticed that I put Tracy and Matt in the wrong spot. She's Lenora's daughter, too, but I didn't link them together. Damn. Well, anyway, all the links work. And that's always nice. I just painted our living room windows today. Snowflakes on half and the other half says "Happy Holidays" and "Shalom". The "Shalom" part is written in Hebrew, though, so I'm doubting an passers-by will be able to read it. Oh well. Looks nice. I think I'm going to go wrap presents now.

11/24/02 I'm bored. I just got off the phone with my funny little sister, who's decided to major in Scandinavian Studies just so she'll have a degree to make our parents happy. And that was the major with the lowest credit requirement. *lol, rolls eyes* Oh well. And I think I'm going to have to let SUUP go. For those of you that don't know, SUUP is my baby pet project for Unitarian Universalist young adults in my church. But we'll replace it with something. It just isn't working out. In the past three weeks, we've canceled one for lack of interest and the other two were just me and an adult. No "young" prefix. I really tried to get it going. Maybe we'll keep it as a once-a-month thing. I dunno.

11/13/02 Happy half-birthday to me! I'm now 20 1/2. Anyway, I had an interesting lunch today. A guy from work gave my name to a man interested in doing a Far Side-esque comic. He has the ideas, and is looking for someone to draw them. That's where I come in. Anyway, we discussed the idea over pita bread and skordalia at Mikey's, and he gave me a list of the captions/concepts he'd come up with. Now I'm going to draw up about five of them so he can see if my style is compatible with his vision. This could be pretty cool!

10/25/02 Yup... I'm glad to hear that people are visiting the site- I'm updating stuff for a reason! Woohoo! So why doesn't anyone sign the guest book? Silly people. Anyway, I need to do some housecleaning today. Dishes, laundry, pay bills, vacuum... all sorts of fun. I'm getting really excited about our first SUUP this weekend (that's Sunday Unitarian Universalist Potluck, btw). I brought home some minestrone couscous mix from work today to use at the potluck. Now I just have to figure out something to read for the meditations during the opening and closing circles... should be fun. Wish me luck!

10/23/02 So last night, I had a meeting about the future of young adult activities at my church. I am, of course, still all pumped about my experience at the Fall con, and I'm really super-optomistic. I think I'm becoming one of those over-optimistic church people. Which kind of weirds me out, as I've always despised those people. But anyway, I just started a Yahoo group to contact other Moscow area UU young adults. We'll see how it works. And I'm pretty sure next year's Fall con will be here. Yea!

10/22/02 I just had the most awesome weekend. I went to Portland OR for the fall conference of Unitarian Universalist young adults. It kicked ass. As one attendee said, "I got more hugs in the past 48 hours than I've gotten in the past three years. I think that affects a person." Before this weekend, I'd only met one or two other UU's that were my age. And then I spent three days with forty of them. We bonded instantly. There's something so freeing, so loving, about being immersed in a group of open-minded people all going through the same things I am at the same time I am and being able to talk about it. That and cuddle puddles. Those are pretty cool, too. *grin* Anyway, I'm sick today and I hope I didn't infect everyone else at Fall Con... *feeling guilty* Oh well. I didn't know I was getting sick till this morning. So... yeah. I'm going to go put up some pics from the con. *group hug for everybody*

10/16/02 Alrighty. This is the inaugural post of the new and improved "A Day in the Life" page since the evil computer gods devoured the original one. Hah. I laugh in the face of Those Who Consume Files. Not only that, but this is the first time that I've ever updated this site since April. Yeah. I'm really digging the avocado picture. I *did* like the little boy one with the robot, too, though. So, anyway, I'm adjusting to this new "no school" and "married" thing fairly well. I really love my job and I'm excited about the illustration thing, so all in all, good stuff.

For entries newer than these, check out:
The Heart of Fools Speaks.
It's newer and better. Or something. I just like it because I don't have to wait for a program to load to use it... enjoy!