Help with more inside please, mods? I thought I did it. Sorry.

1. Got up early for the second time today. Dang jet-lag. Also: since I'm now twenty degrees of latitude further south, it's like I've gone BACK...IN...TIME since the sun is now coming up an hour later than it was in Latvia. LOL round planet!

2. Sort of tempted to blow through the house doing all my laundry and unpacking, but sort of not tempted to do it...bah. At least most of my clothes are clean.

3. Missing an old friend today, and he's 400 miles away, and I'm not about to travel 400 miles on short notice, soooo yeah, just gonna have to deal with that one. Awww. I'll e-mail him later.

1. Finishing off a nice bottle of chardonnay.

2. Playing piano and enjoying it.

3. Trying not to freak out at not knowing how many or how few people are going to turn up to my little house gathering this evening.

1. Prompted by chrismear, I'mgoing to pick up a bottle of chardonnay that I craved last night but didn't want to melt on the way over & back from the grocery.

2. rainbaby: 98* yesterday, pushing 100* today. But at least we don't have the smoke. :/ And it is excellent siesta conditions.

3.Doing my best to take a vacation from lack of $ and work freakage.

1. had tasty migas from tacodeli
2. enjoying my "giant ice tea" and sitting outside at my coffee emporium
3. wish everyday was as tranquil as this saturday morning

1. Stuck at work, but at least the A/C is on since it's like 500 degrees outside.

2. Had a great lunch with the partner at our local southern-cooking place before I came in, though.

3. Am craving lime sherbet for some reason.

1. I think I slipped a disk. Pretty much the worst pain in my life and I'm consigned to the sofa. So very bored.

2. You ever watch 30 hours of TV in a row? The headaches are bad but the worst thing is the realization that even scrubs loses its magic after 8 consecutive episodes.

3. Yeah. That's my status. Thank god for my iPhone. At least I can surf the Internet. And thank god doctor who starts in an hour.

1. Worked my ass off at work hauling wheelbarrows of debris up a hill for six hours. Was wonderfully exhausted and finally going to bed at around 1AM was amazing.
2. Mowed the lawn with the push mower because today is just so damn Summery that I couldn't imagine having used the ride-on mower.
3. Iced Tea is probably the single best drink to have after mowing the lawn.

1. I had a very successful shopping trip today to buy shoes. I have very broad feet and normally wear Reeboks, but I got two lovely pairs today, one pair for the various weddings I'm attending later this month and other dress-up occasions. The other pair is smarter but will be great for interviews and, hopefully, a new job. They were both far too expensive, but when you have broad, but short, feet, choice is limited. So when I found not one but TWO pairs of proper, not old lady, shoes, I had to get them while I could.

2. While I was in Ilford shopping I went along to a 'Meet your Muslim Neighbour' festival that was being held in the Town Hall. It was free (including some lovely halal food) and very interesting. The children's choir was lovely. Everyone was given a goodie bag with a packet of Halal Haribo sweets, and some literature which I haven't looked at yet. I ate the sweets on the bus home. They tasted like normal Haribo, i.e. of nothing, but still left a horrid coating over my teeth.

3. A tenderloin of pork is marinating in the fridge, in olive oil, parsley, thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper and the zest and juice of a lemon. I cut slits in the tenderloin and stuffed them with slices of garlic. I'll have it with some roasted veggies, followed by coffee ice cream. I don't often buy ice cream, but this coffee is my favourite flavour, and I just about have room for the carton in my tiny freezer.

Oh, and 1.1 (shopping extra). I managed to get a replacement tankard for the one I cracked earlier this week. It's not the same, it will never be the same as my old one, but for 99p I'm not complaining.

1. I played kickball and Ultimate Frisbee this morning.

2. We just got home and I'm going to try to find a good movie on cable and pick up the house a bit.

3. I'm tired.

1. Stressed
2. Worried
3. Really hoping this isn't depression coming on

I. I took the monsters to monster jail this morning (aka the doggy kennel). Now the apartment is awkwardly empty.

II. I fly to San Francisco tomorrow! California here I come!

III. Still unemployed...oh well, I will worry about that next week.

1. Wedding this afternoon. Outside in Central Park, so it should be lovely. If only it wasn't so damned hot!

2. Need to buy a strapless bra that fits my new boobs. Sometime in the next hour.

3. Shouldn't be sitting on the computer while I should be buying abovementioned, then getting ready. Wedding in 2.5 hours.

1. Oh gawd is it fracking fracking hot.
2. I lost my second phone in a week, never did that before and now I've done it twice in seven days.
3. Saw Over The Rhine last night, going to see James McMurtry (for free) tonight.

1. hot
2. saw the ocean
3. parental visit going decently

1. Hot
2. Sunburned and poison ivy exposure this morning
3. Fighting inertia and lack of desire to be outside. I want to go to two different awesome events.

1. Just getting up after the first night of L.A. Pride celebrations. Two more nights of utter chaos to go!

2. Think I'm gonna run errands on my bike today. Can't bear the thought of L.A. traffic on a day like this.

3. Combining both of the above, I'm going to a welcome party this evening for a whole raft of hotties arriving from San Francisco on the AIDS Ride. Going to buy some roses to hand out.

1. Researching NYC public high schools for possible transfer. There are many, many openings in many, many schools (several pages worth), and a lot of information available for most of them, which is good, but a bit overwhelming. I think I need a break, but I'm feeling encouraged. The change would do me good, I think (less of a commute, less administrative bs, more programs for the students, better supplies). There are several lovely-sounding schools rated "well-developed" on my list to apply to already, and a few no-ways (I'm sorry, but if your school's in the basement of a building with "no natural light," it's a deal breaker; I do not want to work in a dungeon--poor kids.)

2. Last week of teaching next week! My juniors are presenting their final projects, and my seniors will be watching Apocalypse Now, having finished reading Heart of Darkness. Easy week (we hope), though hot; there's no air conditioning in my building, and it's supposed to be in the 90s. I'm not officially done until June 26th, though. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait.

3. Bottle Rockets tonight! With Jon and Hugh Janus! Only drawback is having to go out in this heat. It's so nice and cool in here. Perhaps I'll take a nap before I shower. I was up early to watch the French Open Women's Final, even though Serena wasn't in it.

1. I am feeling very frustrated and annoyed because I'm making plans and strategizing for HOW TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE PERMANENTLY and it seems like all my folks want to do is constantly piss on every single thing I'm trying to do.

2. This weather is not helping my mood any. Ugh.

3. I'm not looking forward to this all-staff meeting on Monday, even if I don't have to go, I have to be all pleasant and chipper because my boss' boss is coming down for the first time since I've cleaned up the office and I'll have to listen to her be all happy. (Which, while I'm like 'yay praise' it'd be nicer if it was like 'yay here's more money for you.')

elizard: you have a ton of life changes going on. Those things are bound to make you stressed and worried.

pips: good luck. Any school would be lucky to have you.

and [snigger] gaspode has boobies. Heh. Heheheheh.

1. Went to Adventure Island, a water park in Tampa today. Perfect day for it, and we got there early enough to ride all the stuff we wanted to without having to wait in too many long lines.
2. Came home exhausted, but still managed to go out with Dad for a short trip to "Parrothead", a street festival in "historical downtown". SO SO SO HOT! So hot.
3. Really should shower. Really too lazy.

1. Woke up an hour ago. Slept a loooooooong time after last night's graveyard shift, but yay, only 4 more and I'm done with it.

2. Hoping the tea I'm having will help my headache.

3. Thinking about buying pizza for my crew tonight since I will be leaving them.

1. Finally got the three hibiscus plants and tomato plant transplanted into their proper pots. Also planted some jalapeno and cilantro. Glad that's finally over with. I was feeling guilty as we'd bought the hibiscus and tomato plants some 3, 4? weeks ago.

2. Gave the dog a bath and took her for a nice long walk in the sun and wind to dry her off. She's happily snoozing now. Frankly, for being 93 degrees out, it doesn't feel too bad. Probably because I've been mostly in the shade or covered in hose water all afternoon.

3. Going to see a buddy's new band (warning: MySpace page) tonight for the first time. I'm pretty stoked about it as I really like what I've heard of them so far and they got a pretty positive review a few weeks back in the local alt-weekly.

1. A coworker with issues came down on me unexpectedly and unnecessarily, causing me to actually complain to management. Then I found a corner alone to cry, after being really, really mad. He did apologize. And I'm proud that I did stand up to him - no one goes to work to be abused like that.

2. I'm on my second and a 1/2 margarita. Jose Cuervo in strawberry. Yummm.

3. Too hot. I'm so glad I have air conditioning. Thinking about going to a local lake tomorrow.

1. Burned myself out yesterday starting sketches. Now i need suggestions, like it's an improv exercise. Just spit things out.
"Shape of an eagle!"
"Barrister!"

2.Must still make at least a few gigs of space so i can try to scan the lot of crappy sketchy doodles.
It's seems ridiculous that my first laptop was 8mgs. It means someone could spit out a simple word processor like a calculator for people who want to hide and write.

3. Surprised at how much i got done even though i got moving so late. Fukkin muggy outside, solar flaps down. Heat shields up.

1. My wild bohemian stoner artist auntie in NYC (who hung around in 1950s Greenwich Village with Pollack and De Kooning and the like; who I lived with in Spain as a teenager; who started smoking up with jazz musicians in the 40s; who went to Antioch and then eventually to India where she lived with Baba Ram Dass for a while; who lived for years in the Chelsea Hotel) had a stroke. She's doing well and getting better but she can't really be living alone anymore. Therefore I may well be up in the city in about 10 days when she gets out of the hospital, renting a van and moving her down here. My life would appear to be suddenly changing drastically yet again since possibly she will soon be living with me.

2. My best friend's long distance internet Australian love affair did not work out and she just called me in tears from Cairns. She's coming home. I'm sad for her and guiltily glad for me.

3. It is hot as hell here too and so I spent most of the day at the air conditioned mall with my mother, combing through clearance racks at Belks. I got some great stuff and then, get this, since this is the BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL:

4. When I stopped for beer and cigarettes on my way home I GOT CARDED. Yes. Yes, I did. I totally got carded by a guy who had to be 15 years younger than me if he was a day and he wasn't even kidding. I plan to float on this for some time.

omg, mgl. Auntie and S? Wow.

Float away.

1. Went to the Vineyard
2. With LT
3. Was lovely

0. thanks to everyone for their well wishes for me and my family. it's appreciated.

1. I switched to the reuseable shopping bags (the kind grocery stores sell with the flat bottom that fit on the bag tray for the cashier). I'm trying to use them everywhere.

2. It's hotter than sin, and far less fun, right now.

3. I thought clinton's speech today was quite good.

1. Unexpectedly, I had a whole Saturday to myself for the first time since February.

2. I got a new haircut! Long layers. It's nice.

3. Crosbie and I left for a very long walk while it was still daytime. At first there were swallows swooping around, then they went in and bats came out, then there were just shapes of cedars against the sky. We got back just a little after dark. He's flaked out on the sofa with his paws sticking straight out, dozing and snuffling.

1. went road biking with a friend through the polders, the lakes, along the dikes, saw the windmills, the medieval and 17th century castles and summer residences, the fortresses from the 1930s
2. had coffee at a stop in a touristic town (Breukelen, or Brooklyn as you'd pronounce it) among the German pensioner tourists
3. lovely weather; sunny, windy. And a german beer when I got home.
Heaven!

1. I am not as sore as I thought I would be. I did some hard physical digging and hauling yesterday and at the end of the day, I could not hold a coffee cup, due to wrist hurting and not working well. Could not write. But this morning it's not that bad.

2. Still kicking myself for going to Sex and the City Friday night. I can't tell you how bad it is, at least not as well as all the reviewers. I still feel unclean.

3. Starting to work in earest on a house concert I promised to have for my friend's band. It is bad timing, with graduation, etc. but this is when they are coming over from HI. I have a couple radio contacts, so trying to get some publicity about it. I have never put on a house concert and don't know the first thing about it.

3.1 I am amazed how hot it is on the East Coast. Here it is cold and rainy still, like March or something. Weird. . .I wish I could send some of it East to you.

1. New roomie went on a cleaning spree yesterday and I got swept up in it, too. (No pun intended.) Now that my pantry goods are put away, I really need to buckle down on putting the stuff in my room away. She has offered to help me get over my hoarder instincts and start throwing things away. I am scared.

2. Totally late for the AnimeNEXT meeting and it's so bloody hot that I wonder if I need to go at all. It's not like anyone from my department's going to be there and I work with everyone online most of the time anyway. Besides, the other people I need to talk to who aren't in my department aren't going to be there either. Yeah, I think I'm staying home.

3. Not going to go into the office today either, because I really do need to unpack, and I can do that much easier with my roommate out in New Jersey. So, why don't I get to it, eh?