IT'S STILL ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, this, from my phone uploads:

In illustrating the 68-95-99.7 rule in statistics, my notes came out looking like an elderly gentleman in a pith helmet.

don't try to cheat the future

I've been working all week, and I'm tired, and I still somehow feel like I haven't worked enough. And then, when I came home at night, I'd remember how there was something nasty in the cabinetry.

It sounded as though a bird was trapped in my pantry, but that didn't make sense. It seemed to be knocking to get out, which was a little bit terrifying. So rather than find out what in the world could be fluttering and kicking with such strength, I just taped the door shut. True story. I'll post a picture so you believe me. Anyway, days passed, the thing was still alive and kicking (and punching). Xander and I (BC still MIA) huddled in terror and curiousity. At some point, I imagined it a hulking exoskeleton-ous crablike monster, as featured in the Buffy episode Bad Eggs, and sort of like in Aliens, also. The idea of opening the cabinet terrified me because this!

could happen to me or Xander!

Speaking of Xander, he's driving me crazy! I had no idea how much BC had to put up with, but that cat wants to play ALL THE TIME. And now he's taken to sprinting out out my front door whenever I open it.

In the end, I put some diatomaceous earth in a crack of the door, and after a prolonged and mighty struggle, I think whatever's in there is dead. But I'm going to wait till I get back to town on Monday to actually check and see. Expect an autopsy report then, if the acid blood doesn't kill me.

I'm so exhausted. I like my sleep, and that's one thing I haven't gotten this week. I can't wait for my 1.5 hour (direct!) plane ride tomorrow. Naps! Then Saturday: exoskeletons! (will become clear later)

emails

I've written 85 emails since 10AM today. 63 of them for work. Which I am now leaving. (to go to Other Work).

Battle Cat has located his proper domain for doing battle: under the deck of the sports court in my condo buildings. That's where he lives now. With centipedes and possums, which I assume double as both roommates and meals.

Xander likes being an only cat again. But things can't last this way.

I was locked out of Blogger for a few days and couldn't fix the seemingly unavoidable grammer and spelling mistakes that I sometimes notice if I bother to read my own updates. Gosh, the only thing that happened to me though is that I watched 5 minutes of a show called "Growing Up Tiger" on Animal Planet, and one shot of a tiger cub getting a bath has sustained me through a somewhat trying week. I'm not sure why I was so anxious to update the last week. Probably just because I couldn't.

Last night my cords for the Super Nintendo came, but I couldn't get it to work. So I worked on my iTunes library for a while and tried not to cry about it. But today I might take it to Gamefellas, a shop right by my house that I always wondered about, and it turns out they specialize in classic video game consoles.

And lastly, Thursday is my first attempt at a role-playing game, and I have barely sketched out my character! I love doing this kind of thing (hence my participation in several imaginary comic books throughout my life), but I haven't had time and I want to do it right. But I'm running out of time. So, if you'd like to be a dear, just post some random traits/background my character might have, just to give me some ideas to start with. I'm thinking I'll try to work Russian into it because another player there speaks some Russian, too, plus there's a Siberian corporation in the game's universe. I can't be magic, but otherwise, the sky's the limit.

I saw Spider-Man 3 last week, a movie dripping with big fat man-tears. I probably wouldn't have thought much about it, except I saw it with someone who's been accused of being emotionless. You hear phrases like "emotionally unavailable," but they don't really sink in until you experience them. Anyway, maybe I'm contracting a slight lack of empathy myself because I totally agreed with a friend who said, regarding MJ's mopiness in the movie "Get over it! You're dating a superhero--you're following him. He's not going to relocate for your crappy acting career!" Of course, it was more subtle than that in the movie, but really MJ, you're going to have to toughen up if you want to keep dating Spiderman. Spiderman and all his friends will probably also have to stop welling up at the drop of a hat.

Anyway, with a real-life person lacking a wide range of emotion, it helps to re-define emotions to include such things as nausea, headache, and dizziness. True, these may sound more like "symptoms" than "emotions," but whatever it takes to get my friend to be more emotional.

A big rope of ants discovered something under my bookcase! I have no idea what they could be doing under there. I'm surprised they can even fit, or that they made it all the way to the third story of my building. I'm constantly covered with phantom ant bites now. I don't think they're really the biting kind, though. I'm just being very emotional. Itching is also an emotion.

Hi! Remember me? I blog sometimes.

While I would rather travel all the way to Virginia to share all the YouTube videos with everyone, as I did last month, perhaps it's more efficient just to post them here.

Okay, maybe it's because the first time I saw this it was 4am, but I can't stop laughing after 2:14 of the Intermission in the Third Dimension:




Special thanks to Dr. Hoss.

But tonight I am going to the Alamo to see the "controversial" documentary about The Smiths, for $1, which makes it awesome already. Unless it's not awesome, like the Small Faces documentary.

Um... other news about my life. I didn't realize that picture from Taos was up here! Yep, me and Willie went skiing in Taos, for super cheap! And it was so much fun! We had a personal guide: Cabel, skiier extraordinaire (but also patient with those of us terrified of the bunny slopes at first). And I won big at poker, and Leigh got me addicted to Sex and the City. I'm almost caught up. Hmph. Twitterpated. So, that was New Mexico.

Before that was Michigan, where I got to see Katya! Hurray! But I lost my camera. Sad! But I visited the school and it was amazing and I liked lots of people there! Hurray! But I decided not to go. Sad! But I got my Super Nintendo! Hurray! But it's missing the cord. Sad! But the cords are cheap on Ebay! Hurray!

Now I've been in Austin three weekends in a row, and I feel like I'm getting so much stuff done, it's amazing! I have three jobs now, but at the same time I'm finally getting to all the home improvement projects I've had half-done, or half-conceived for the past few months. Its also helps that I'm only sleeping six hours a night lately for some reason. Last weekend I went to a goat farm out in the country and won a game of pool! But not at the goat farm that would be weird! Also, Saturday, I had a Pepsi and a Miller Lite (but not together that would be weird). Both come in a blue can, and neither were as good as I'd remembered.

And I asked someone: "Are the Cowboys and the Spurs the same team?" and they couldn't answer me. Apparently, this question is funny, even though cowboys own and use spurs.

Hi from new mexico

"we have a lot in common... like babies. you know, two babies next to each other are like: hey, i used to live in a lady, too! weird!"

MOLTAR! get out here and heat up my brain.

There she is, Bob! Brains.

Fracking Windows Vista won't let me upload a picture of my brain to complete that quote appropriately. But anyway, the MRI was normal.

In switching over my hard drive, I find this rather timely MS Paint rendering of the Easter Story:

Liam

In getting the pictures for this post, I found out the animated boy for the Yahoo Beta is named Liam.

I am writing to say I'm glad the new loading picture of him is this:

Because before that it was this:

And he is just fuggling the sh!t out of that thing!

I was up all night with my new computer! So pretty! But mostly, I was obsessively transferring information on a 256Mb jump drive (how frustrating that my 2 gig jump drive decides to stop working now), and then organizing the information with excrutiating detail.

Today I'm tired, but somehow have found meaningless phrases soothing and amusing. And I don't mean meaningless in a "Time heals all wounds" or some other tired palliatives I don't feel like thinking of examples of. I mean meaningless like: "Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I catch a glimpse of the brainfuggler, just fuggling the sh!t out of everything!"

You may or may not have noticed I stopped updating. There are all kinds of reasons for this. But maybe they will all be overcome by my new computer.

I got a new computer partly because I will be matriculating this Fall into a graduate school, as yet undecided which.

The only link I can find with my Brainfuggler reference (though the line above is not an exact quote) is here. NeelyComics seems to have removed itself from YouTube, or maybe it's because I'm not signed in. Anyway, the creator of the Washington, Washington video, and also Wizard People Dear Reader has several other cartoons now, and some of them are really growing on me (though I have to say, nothing can ever top Washington, Washington; these others are more like Wizard People Dear Reader, which I think of as needing a different mindset), and they are apparently at SuperDeluxe.com. Thank you, SXSW film shorts, and Cartoon Network! Another favorite is the Professor Brothers--Office Hours.