diane

nov. 7: i:scintilla party at cowboy monkey. I think it's been far too long since I dressed in black, painted on eyeliner (literally -- I use a paintbrush and black eyeshadow that I wet down) and danced for hours. I'm really looking forward to it, regardless of who may be there or if it's gonna be awkward. don't care. wanna dance.

if you're curious, here's their youtube.

Today's weather: 58 with intermintant showers. Ooh, and when it's not showering, it's overcast and grey. It's like nature is going out of her way to show me the error of my ways; yesterday I didn't leave the house and it was a beautiful, sunny day. Today I had to leave (big weed identification test today) and it's the sort of day that begs to be spent inside with a blanket, a cup of hot chocolate and a good book. ::sign:: Ooh well. I just have to get through this exam and a lecture, then I get to go home.

rhett's passed out, I'm slightly tipsy (hellllloooooooo 100 proof rootbeer schnapps) and there is but one thought on my mind: I wish I had curry right now. : (

happy birthday to me.
this week has sucked balls.
more later.

(if I weren't so tired I'd try to make it a haiku)

I bought a pair of 10g rainbow dichro from ebay, pretty happy with the results considering the size and price.

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just got back from my human reproduction test. it went ... okay. it really depends on how harshly he grades things -- I focused waaaaaay too much on understanding specific things and he wanted more generic things ... which sounds easier, but to me it's not. I'd rather have an organ to diagram or a feedback loop to describe than random vocabulary word definitions (esp. since he doesn't give you the word and ask for the definition, he gives you the definition and asks for the word. which makes it much harder, at least for me). I think I got at least a B, maybe an A. and considering I totally forgot about the male reproductive system (rather, I didn't think it was going to be on this exam) and learned everything I know about it in the hour before the test, I'm okay with that.
I'm very crunchy right now -- I don't normally pop a lot of joints but everything's been popping in the last few hours -- back, neck, fingers, ankles (those are normal for me). I think it's because I sat in essentially the same position for almost 10 hours (started studying at my desk around 11 PM, didn't leave it until around 9 AM for my shower). I want to go take a nap since I'm tired and it's perfect napping weather -- perfect temp, slight breeze through the open window, quiet neighborhood since all the kids are in school, the students are in class and the parents are at work. and for the first time in weeks there doesn't seem to be any heavy construction going on! but I've got another class at 1:00 and I'm afraid that if I go to sleep I won't wake up by then. and then hektor and mimi are going in for their annuals -- they'll enjoy that (noooooooo). which means I won't get home until 5:30 ... but then, ooh then I will sleep. sweet, delicious sleep.
I'm off to find food. my tummy demands tribute!

apparently I just sent out a huge amount of spam. again. so if you got a weird email from me, I'm really sorry. I just deleted all my contacts from my email inbox and I'm taking the computer in for a diagnostic/virus scan as well as talking to the people at the computer center about how to stop the spamming.
I hate people (who make spam).

there are so many things I keep meaning to update with.
here's just a smattering:
+ I keep having weird dreams (okay, I guess dreams are odd by definition). I usually don't remember my dreams, but I've been remembering them recently and honestly, I don't like it. I'm used to waking up and being slightly grumpy about having to get out of bed, now I wake up and I'm missing someone, or confused, or upset about something that didn't really happen. last night I had a dream about masha visiting, and someone (don't know who) kept saying that everything would be alright now that she's back ... even though I knew she had come to town for just a few days. I also dreamed that kinner had rescued a baby that she didn't want to give back to the parents and we had to get across town to her parents (who had moved here from montana?) but we had to be careful or else the parents of the baby would find us and take it back.
+ I was born and raised in urbana, and I really didn't think there was anything here that could scare or upset me. I was wrong. as happyfrogg suggested and disconnector confirmed, that's the giant wasp I saw take a cicada out and eat its face. the fuckers are huge and loud and disturbing as all hell, esp. because they make nests in the ground. you know, where you can't see them and can step on them. ::shudder::
+ I was depressed and reading my weed science book and made the mistake of putting a box of oreos next to me. after eating about two per page, I realized that I'd eaten ~2/3 of the box. rhett's response? "I would berate you but I don't think you'd understand my point unless I made it in oinks." remind me why I love this man? ; P
+ today I'm seeing jen (friend from a stretched jewelry forum) for lunch, then I'm going to a top soil seminar in the afternoon (it's only an hour, will help with a presentation I'm doing later in the year and the title is: "TOP SOIL: what is it, and who cares?" which amuses me), then I'm going over to rhett's cousin's place to help them sew surcoats for a fighting event on saturday and then I go to work at 7:30. I'm hoping to get the second bedroom (the study) cleaned up a bit before lunch, I think that should be doable.

bah. I'll try to get back to the today I ... (for all you avid readers out there) but I can't think of anything interesting that I learned today. um, CO2 concentrations can be depleted under the crop canopy? yeah, didn't think it was that interesting. : )

I'm sitting outside hoho (honor's house) watching a freaking huge hornet (? Maybe it's a wasp) tear the hell out of a cicada. Creepy.
And it took me several tries to convince the iPod that I wanted to type "hell" and not "he'll" or "hello" like it kept insisting.