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today

listening to: in my head, i'm listening to wolfsheim: once in a lifetime. in reality, i'm listening to my own typing, to rolley-chair squeaks, to the paper shredder, and to other people coughing.

craving: i just had a cup of coffee. but i need another one already. but the coffeemaker is so far away...

last night: we ended up being too tired to go to electricity, so we stayed home and fucked with ingrid. poor ingrid. it turns out it's not a mechanical problem with the drive, but rather an invalid peof. my filesystem is all corrupted now. *sniffle* it looks like i'm going to have to zero all the data and start over with a completely clean reinstall of everything, which means i lose all my documents and applications. i'm happy i don't have to go buy another three hundred dollar drive, but this is still not exactly a joyous occasion.

estimated hours of sleep: approximately four, four and a half

so far today: woke up at six thirty. that just wasn't happening. re-set the alarm [well, not really an alarm. spencer's laptop playing a cd] to go off at seven. had major issues trying to connect so i could e-mail my boss. missed the 7:38, but caught the 7:44.

current plans for later today: work until spencer and/or i are ready to go. i doubt i'm going out tonight, although something like the korova milk bar - laid back & low key - is a possibility. i'd like to get ingrid working again as soon as possible, but i don't know how soon that's going to be.

what else: *ahem*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPENCER

yep. spencer's 22 today. rar.

today

listening to: spencer sleeping

craving: coffee. mmmmm.

last night: spencer and i went to alchemy, where i hadn't been in a really long time... c.j. was there - he had literally just gotten off the plane. i didn't even know he was coming back to the states anytime soon. the music was good, too. alchemy plays pretty much exlcusively goth, rather than the usual mix of goth, industrial, ebm, synthpop, etc. i like all those, but it was good to hear some of the stuff i don't hear played so much.

estimated hours of sleep: four to five

so far today: woke up. got dressed. and i'm about to go to work.

current plans for later today: work until whenever. i might go to electricity tonight, depending on how tired i am and such and whatnot.

what else: you know you're not getting enough sleep when you start factoring in falling asleep on the train as part of your standard sleep time.

and did i mention that GreyWouldBeTheColor is really cool?


incidentally, i just wanted to mention that no, i'm not getting rid of my journal. when i said a couple of days ago that i was getting rid of 'this section', i meant only the 'later today' bit, because my plans seem to have a rather remarkable impermanence. thanks to all of you who e-mailed me and asked me to keep the journal online. i'm actually planning on expanding it a bit.

today

listening to: deine lakaien: dark star [& spencer's version of the same]


craving: actually, i could still go for a cannoli. but at this point i'm just really hungry.

last night: rar... spencer and i went out for some crazy clubbing. we started at downtime, where the batcave was open because of the holiday weekend. we danced for a solid three hours, which is more than i've danced in a while. around one thirty or two we headed over to mi7, which was also open last night because of the holiday. we stayed there until four, when we were so tired from dancing and such that we actually fell asleep in the corner. it was good, though. i didn't get bored, just tired. a good time was had by all.

so far today: i'm having some issues with ingrid, hence the lack of update yetserday. either the drive is failing or my system software is fucked. so we're going to try re-installing os 9 first to see if that will help, and if not then i'm going to have to get a new drive. sigh. i lost a bunch of the photos i was going to put up today, unfortunately. they're all corrupted.

later today: the plan as of now is that spencer's going to finish his bath and i'm going to take a shower and we're going to go to work. we actually have today off because of memorial day, but as i don't have a working machine here at the moment and spencer lives at the office anyway we figure we might as well just go in. i actually like the office when no one else is there.

what else: updated 5:34 pm: spencer and i are at the office. and i finally got my cannoli. mmmmmmmm. heh.

oh yeah. i went to look at that apartment yesterday. and i'm going to take it, whee! it's not great, but it's really cheap. so i'm willing to put up with it for the time being. it's only $550 a month, including utilities. and it's a block from the subway i take to work. it's still quite a commute [it's in brooklyn, near where i am now], but that's ok. i don't plan on staying there long.

incidentally, GreyWouldBeTheColor is really cool.

today

listening to: warcraft noises. skogar, baby. skogar.

craving: a cannoli

last night: don't get me started.

so far today: i just had a veggie sub. and spencer and i are working on some formatting for this.

later today: i think i might get rid of this section. because i'm noticing that nothing ever turns out the way i expect it to.

what else: argh.

today

listening to: empty office noises. mmmmmm.


craving: sleep. just a few more hours. or, alternatively, enough caffeine to get me through this day without falling asleep at my workstation.

last night: went to elysium with spencer... i was planning on going to lbv, but my plans sort of got changed. elysium was okay... the first dj's set was entirely too much metal, and the dancefloor was taken over by these scruffy hard rock brooklyn kids. delchi's set was better, but we had to leave relatively early because of work today.

so far today: dragged myself out of bed at seven, came to work. i've been futzing around since then.

later today: i get out of work at two today, woohoo! spencer and i are going shopping on st mark's place, then heading home to work on site stuff. we're staying in tonight; there's not that much to do on fridays right now anyway.

what else: new desktop photo. whee!

today

listening to: smack's beep-beeping; other office-type people making office-type noises.

craving: free time, privacy, sleep, a better salary, a new apartment, and perhaps most importantly: a bagel.

last night: got home eight-thirtyish and futzed around. i have all these really cool new desktop snapshots and photos and stuff but still the ftp angst persists. and now i'm even having scp angst. where will it end? spencer came home elevenish. we watched about half of the princess bride, i think, before we fell asleep.

so far today: i wore my big-ass boots to work today because i'm not sure if i'm going home before i go out tonight. i was wondering if my boss would notice. she didn't. yay. now i am consuming office coffee. whee.

later today: i'm probably going to end up going home after work so that i can have some time/privacy/space to get dressed for lbv, which i'm going to finally get to this week, i think. i need to give krystal back her purse which i accidentally took home last time, and i want to go to mother as much as possible before it closes next month [insert moment of silence in honor of mother]. then i'll come home and savour my two hours of sleep before coming back to manhattan yet again for work tomorrow.

what else: i'm working on something that should be pretty cool. and that's all i'm going to say about it right now. but i'll try and have it ready in the next few days, that is if file-transfer angst goes away.

i'm looking at a studio this weekend that, if i can get it, i'll actually be able to afford. woohoo. the commute's not much better than what i have now, but the rent is really cheap. i could afford to live there by myself, even, although of course the rent would be cheaper still if krystal were sharing with me. krystal and i are currently looking for something in manhattan, but the prospects are rather depressing.

yay for my dad today, who's going to be showing his sculpture at an art festival thing in massachusetts. he was a boatbuilder for a very long time, as were most male members of my family [my dad's the eighth generation to build boats], but he stopped about a year or two ago and he's been sculpting since. his stuff is royally cool, too. i'm making a site for him when i get some photos, so be sure to check it out.

today

listening to: you know the sound a windex bottle makes when used? that squeegy kind of noise? that's what i'm hearing.

craving:oh baby, don't let me commence.

last night: got home around eight. i tried to upload some new photos, but much ftp angst ensued. it's to do with the fact that i'm at a different ip. i'll get new photos up eventually, though, even if i have to resort to bringing them to work on a floppy. [eww. floppy.]

so far today: this morning, i actually didn't fall asleep on the train. that's got to be a first for me. damn. my life is interesting, no?

later today: work. home. stuff. sleep.

what else: i need to move back to manhattan. or at least closer to manhattan. i can't go out nearly as much as i used to because of the commute and the fact that i have to get up so early for work. it's driving me insane. i'm going out tomorrow night, however, and if that means i have to survive on two hours [how many?] of sleep, then so be it.

last night, the basement level of my office building flooded. i work on the basement level. this means that this morning i waded to my workstation through half an inch of sludge and soggy carpet. yum. i'm still not quite sure why the basement flooded. but i'm sure it will all become clear eventually.

today

listening to: the soothing hum of sleeping machines and the silence of an office as-yet unoccupied, except by myself. i love getting here early.

craving: more coffee. but i'm in the basement and the coffee maker is so far away...

last night: i got home around seven thirty... rather early for me. i didn't really do anything... stayed up until twelve or so talking to people, then collapsed and enjoyed my six hours of sleep. i really have to start going to sleep earlier when i have to get up for work.

so far today: got dressed. barely caught my train... not that it matters. there's one every six minutes. i just really like the 7:38. and now i'm eating a bagel.

later today: i need a nap.

what else: watching the half-and-half swirl around in a cup of coffee is like the highlight of my morning.

later: ok. my pet peeve for the week is this: people who bitch about netscape because they can't code well enough for their sites to work in it. the problem here isn't the browser, darlings, it's your code. ie is better at figuring out what you were trying to do than netscape is. if, however, you didn't fuck up in the first place, there wouldn't be this problem, now would there? like it or not, netscape is a very widely used browswer, and it's also a very good browser. and any halfway decent web designer can write for netscape. and yes, there are differences and incompatibilities between the browsers. of course it's a pain in the ass, but it's something designers have to work around. saying 'this site does not work in netscape because netscape sucks' on your front page says less about netscape than it does about your design abilities.

today

listening to: office noise

craving: lunch would be good. spencer and i are going to go get some around 12:45, i think.

last night: spencer and i just lazed around at home. we played warcraft, i figured out how to use my new cell phone, we did a mini photo shoot [the results of which i will upload later], and then watched the phantom menace till we fell asleep around midnight.

so far today: the usual. woke up at six thirtyish, fell asleep on the train to work, and i've been working since i got here. since my new office is below ground, my cell phone doesn't work while i'm here. dammit. ah well.

later today: hm. i don't know yet. we'll find out, i suppose.

what else: penguins rock.

today

listening to: the sound effects from 'warcraft', which spencer is playing next to me.

craving: i think i'm all set, actually.

last night: i was in massachusetts yesterday, visiting my family and adam. adam and i wandered around beverly yesterday... it was all nostalgic. we went to the atomic cafe, to jerry's comics, etc. it was cool. then yesterday evening i had dinner with my grandmother. this morning i drove into cambridge to see my brother - who, incidentally, bought me a cell phone - and we went to see my grandfather, who's in the hospital right now but is going home tomorrow. my flight back to new york was at noon.

so far today: i got home around two, and spencer and i went to the new york aquarium, which is just endlessly cool. i saw fuckin penguins. and sharks. they rocked. then we got some food at the original nathan's of coney island [right next to astroland], did some errands, and now we're chillin.

later today: i think we're going to play warcraft for a while, and i'm going to play with my new phone, and at some point we're probably going to watch the movies we bought.

what else: i had this weird dream the other night involving a bunch of people i went to high school with. we were wandering around a funeral home, or something, and there were rows upon rows of glass-topped coffins. and everyone was looking at all the corpses, which for some reason were all dressed in renn-faire type clothes. and then some people started taking the corpses out of the coffins and pointing out bruises from strangulation, and cutting off limbs, and other rather gruesome things. it was odd. i don't usually have dreams like that.

coney island today was cool. and i'm glad to be back in nyc; i missed it and i missed spencer. it was good to see adam and everyone, though.