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Feb 17, 2005

Apparently long-term lack of blogs led to readership dropoff. Sitemeter graphs starting to look like Nixon-era public opinion study. Aside from random visits from Czechoslovakia and Deutschland, blog not getting any love even on Valentine's day.

Perhaps should reinstate sentence subjects. Or perhaps not.

Wish I had lots of exciting things to report. Not really; just doing homework.

Drew's picture on facebook looks creepy, drunk. Keep expecting it to rotate, lose focus, fade into dream sequence with cheesy retro-60's kaleidoscope effects.

Am going back to Land of 1000 Overpriced Restaurants for weekend. Anyone else...? No...? Didn't think so. Alpharetta too boring even for pigeons. Unfortunate, as games of kick-the-pigeon would liven up Alpharetta nightlife tenfold. Will have to make time to kick some Athenian pigeons before departure.

Watched Mr. 3000 last night. Raised important philosophical and social questions, i.e. how badly marginalized does a group have to be, and for how long, to make a baby blue velour track suit and do-rag look cool?

Vastly prefer Roommate Chike's taste in movies (City of God, Man on Fire) to that of Roommate Chase (King Arthur, 2 Fast 2 Furious). However, as am addicted to GTA: San Andreas, have no grounds to bitch about others' gauche tendencies.

Hope next GTA game includes pigeon-kicking.

-N
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Feb 16, 2005

Am getting new roommate, supposedly by Friday. Empty room v. messy, but as mess was caused by roommates, am going to let roommates clean it up. Roommates have gotten Playstation 2, have done little else since. Hopefully when new roommate is standing impatiently on doorstep, current roommates will vacate ass-shaped grooves in couch cushions they currently occupy and move some of their shit out of empty room.

Actually, have little reason to complain about current roommates. Aside from sudden mysterious trips to Europe and smoking in living room, have had no problems with current roommates. Esp. have no room to complain since haven't even told them smoking in living room bothers me. Not entirely sure what to do about sudden mysterious trips to Europe.

Speaking of which, mom, sister, mom's husband taking sudden mysterious trip to Europe next week. Was not invited or even notified until sister let slip, assuming I already knew about it. Am f.ing pissed. Want to go to Europe. Unlikely to do so, even w/ extensive scholarships.

Have journalism portfolio to turn in tomorrow. All articles nicely saved online via self-e-mailing, but totally inaccessible due to lack of internet in room and "security" features on apartment office computers. Fortunately only one article requires serious editing. Will do that one with paperwork on hand, the rest tomorrow.

Suddenly noticing that bulk of new subject-less posts taken up by homework-related bitching. Unfortunately, major issue in life right now is homework. This is marked improvement over...well...over entire life since turning 5 or so.

Bought cat new, fancy litter box. New litter box looks like little silver kitty spaceship, has flap over opening to control smell of dusty shit. Unfortunately, stupid litter box designers have flap resting against lower edge of opening, thus is anatomically impossible for cat to enter f.ing box except by shoving so hard that flap pops inward. Once cat has done so, becomes trapped inside.

Design brilliant for ensnaring rogue house cats; totally useless for, say, crapping in. Had to fish cat out of litter box three times. Pulled goddamn flap off.

-N
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Feb 14, 2005

Got financial aid check in mail. Bastards shorted me $1000. Would go to their office and rectify this, but am too busy being a week behind on all homework assignments. In meantime, cashed check. Will subsist until more convenient date.

Have presentation to give on article at 12:30 tomorrow. Have not read article. Have to go to library to read article because it doesn't exist outside of course reserves. Can't even find author on google.

Which is insane. Can find SELF on google. Am not even proper published author.

Went to v. nice v-day dinner at dining hall. CK won contest by totally unethical means but individually cooked steak, soup, and service were incredibly good. Bananas foster and jazz combo also top-notch. Well, OK, jazz combo a little bit off. Still, great mood. Felt like celebrity, people taking pictures and groveling all over place. CK looked v. nice.

Probably won't get laid tonight. Somewhat bummed. Didn't get laid on birthday either.

Also got v. few birthday greetings via facebook. Q: What in name of hell is facebook good for?

Also, what in name of hell is GALILEO good for? Cannot find full-text article to save own life. F.ing GALILEO. F.ing Comparative Lit.

Noticed minor clarity issue four graphs up. Service at dinner was not, in fact, cooked - individually or otherwise. Cooking waitress would have raised even more difficult ethical dilemmas than CK stealing number of sweethearts in jar.

Must be off. Have to get to library early tomorrow, and hoping to catch some CSI on Spike.

-N
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