survey I'm not sending it in email, but here you go.
1. What is your name? Jen, jenjen, JennRotten, jenstomper, moonstomper
2. What color pants are you wearing right now? blue jeans
3. What are you listening to right now? Dinotopia on TV
4. What are the last four digits of your phone number? 7766
5. What was the last thing you ate? Palak Paneer, microwaved.
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Heather blue
7. Where do you/did you plan to go on your honeymoon? I hope i never go on one, but I'd go to Ireland
8. How is the weather right now? pretty damn nice
9. Last person you spoke to on the phone? some stupid telemarketer
10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? their eyes
11. Do you like the person that sent you this? She's a doll
12. How are you today? Glad I'm not at work
13. What's your favorite drink? diet coke
14. Your favorite alcoholic drink? beer or gin and tonic, though mexican martinis are gaining ground
15. How do you eat an Oreo? take them apart, scrape off the frosting, then eat the rest
16. Favorite sport to watch? Hockey
17. What's the next CD you're going to get? I'm not sure
18. Hair color? naturally dark brown, i couldn't explain the current color
19. What color are your eyes? light blue/grey
20. Do you wear contacts? nope, 20/20 vision
21. Siblings and their ages? none
22. Favorite food? grilled cheese
23. Last movie you watched? Dinotopia
24. Favorite day of the year? any day in the fall
25. Are you too shy to ask someone out? sometimes
26. Do you like scary or happy movies better? scary
27. Summer or winter? winter
28. Hugs or Kisses? Kisses
29. Relationships or one night stands? depends on the guy
30. Chocolate or vanilla? Ice cream? Vanilla, since chocolate ice cream doesn't taste like chocolate.
31. Do you want your friends to write back? yes
32. Who is least likely to respond? since i'm not sending it out, noone
33. Who is most likely to respond? again, noone
34. In three words sum up everything you've learned about life. suck it up.
11.9.2002
happy belated halloween
I got dressed up in costume for the first time in years, plus wore a skirt for the first time in years (except ugly skirts for interviews, which I've since stopped bothering with. They can hire me in pants). Leslie and I had fun trying to bleach her hair and this is what we looked like on the night of Fred's party (beautiful photos taken by Suzi). I didn't actually get dressed up on Halloween proper, this was the weekend before.
10.23.2002
nanowrimo...oh no
So I did it again, I signed up for National Novel Writing Month. What this means is that I'll be trying to write 50,000 words during the month of November. I didn't manage it last year. I need to stock up on food this weekend, and I will need everyone's encouragement. This will involve lots of cigarettes and beer, donations are always welcome. Why I am doing this to myself, I don't know.
10.21.2002
hi
I haven't posted in months. I was having a rough time for a while. I know I've mentioned that switching to helpdesk was hard, but it was really just killing me. I went to see Elvis Costello a couple weeks ago with Dock and Elizabeth and had a really good time. It's so nice going to shows and not watching people kill each other like they did in Boston. I got to talk philosophy with Elizabeth for a bit too, and that was really nice. Since then, the last couple of weeks at work have been tolerable, I'm not getting so stressed I can't function. It turns out that even people who didn't know me too well were pretty sure I was about to meltdown and quit.
There's weird stuff in my guestbook, I normally nuke it, but I think it's kind of funny that someone's trying to sell car parts from my guestbook. Ha.
I'm in the process of gathering together stuff for my halloween costume. I haven't dressed up in years, but Leslie talked me into it. Now I'm all excited. I get to wear wings! Pictures later, I'm sure.
8.25.2002
long time no post
I turned 27 exactly a week ago, and I think that has a lot to do with my reluctance to post. I was really okay with being 26, but I'm not so sure about 27. On the other hand, it's kind of fun because I'm still getting carded when I buy alcohol, and the surprise on the faces of the checkout clerks when they see my actual date of birth is amusing.
I had a good birthday, nice and mellow. Alix treated me to lunch at Saccone's (good pizza, hard to find in Austin) and she likes eggplant too, so we had eggplant, onions, and mushrooms on our half. The kids had cheese on theirs. We hung out for a while at her place and her daughter entertained me by having me read stories. It actually made me realize that I kind of miss reading to the kids I used to babysit for. Alix has really cool kids. I had made some punk CDs for a friend and was listening to one in the car when we went to lunch to see if it had any flaws, and apparently the kids liked it, so I burned copies of the CDs for them too.
My folks got me a DVD player, a super cool digital rendering of what the stars looked like at the exact time of my birth, and a huge bag of gourmet food that was all inspired by the bottle of olive oil they bought me in Italy. It also included dried mushrooms from Italy, pasta, bread spreads, cookies, biscotti, tortellini, sundried tomatoes and balsamic vinegar. I need to put together a feast.
Since then, I've mostly been trying not to have a meltdown at work. I've been feeling excessively stressed out, I've been the only person in education helpdesk every evening, sometimes starting as early as 7pm and I really just can't do it by myself, especially since I'm new at this. I constantly feel like I'm doing a cruddy job, and then I get good feedback and I just don't know what to make of that. Either it means I'm not doing a crappy job, or it means they just haven't been listening when I was. I feel very lucky that I wasn't scheduled to work yesterday, 10.2 just came out and apparently it was crazy busy, I don't think I could've handled that. I have tomorrow off too, and Mondays are always nuts. I hope Tuesday is better.
I spent yesterday running errands (Toys R Us doesn't have big tubs of generic Legos, dammit) so I now have a million blank CDs and enough cables to get my DVD player and the VCR and the Gamecube all hooked up at once. I got a nice little box at Radio Hack that lets me switch between all of them by just pushing buttons. I'm in geek heaven. The only thing that could make it better is a remote to control it, but I guess I'll have that when I eventually get a receiver. Other than that, I shaved, bleached, and dyed a friend's hair, drank beer, and sat on my ass. Which is a pretty successful weekend, as far as I'm concerned. I have managed to avoid cleaning my apartment much, or doing training for work from home.
