Tori Amos – Winter
*Read a friend’s blog* Ah sickening religious optimism in the morning, just what I need to spoil my morning %) Gah It’s monday, I dont like mondays…
Spent the weekend reading mostly… we rented MST3K:Pod People and Mangolia on saturday night, had fish, cheese, and too much beer %) And there was a thunderstorm outside! Yay! It was a fun night, didn’t get sick from drinking this time ;)
Sunday I felt alright considering all I drank the night before (my body *still* aches… hehe). We had planned to go to the Linux Picnic, but we felt sorta bad so I didnt think we were gonna go. Our friend Nita ended up calling us around 4 asking if we were coming, we decided to *shrugs*… got there finally around 7, and turns out hardly anyone showed up, so it was sucky and lame %( I’m not sure what I expected, heh… Bar night on friday was much more sucessful, of course I wont be 21 for another 34 days %s
So I realized something rather startling the other day.. We have these really geeky, computer friends in real life, they are pretty cool, but seem to have a strange view on women… Why strange? Well I wouldn’t say they are women haters or anything, they love women.. just dont appreciate intelligence in women enough I think… and that really bothers me. I think what really did it tho was this:
http://michael.toren.net/markers.jpg
It’s a map of where a bunch of us live.. everyone gathered the coordinates and gave them to MCT to put on the map. Of course Myk (Time) was working so I wandered to the website and got the coordinates, and so I am the *only* woman on the map! MCT didnt say him and his gf… bj didnt have him and his girlfriend, etc… Only because I gave the coordinates instead of Myk, I get on there… and then of course there is the topic of the room currently “A good woman is like a piano. When she’s not upright, she’s grand.” … which again bothers me A LOT. I think it’s mostly because if I met these people online one day or something instead of meeting them in real life as “Myk’s Girlfriend” I could be their friend… as it is I am stuck in this inferior ‘woman’ stereotype, and it’s unfair… I feel uncomfortable with the women when they talk about soap operas and babysitting, and I feel uncomfortable with the guys ’cause I feel like I shouldnt be there because I’m a woman.. and they STILL sometimes treat me like a freaking idiot *sigh* I hate having to prove myself to these people over and over again, it’s really unfair… then again it IS encouragement to suceed in everything I attempt and not let them see me as a stupid woman…
Well one thing that was good about the picnic is I was telling a friend of mine about the situation with my father and stuff, and mentioned that my sister might have to give away my chinchillas Merlynn and Dweezle. Myk overheard this and was like “ack, do you want to go get them? I dont want her having to just give them away to some person she doesnt know” … I was a bit surprised by this, since I *know* Myk is allergic, and our apartment doesnt really have a place for them. But he said if her getting rid of them is an option then we HAD to go get them, even if they have to live at his mother’s for a few months until we get a house. I was really happy about this %) I miss them so much %(
Oh! I finished the 4th Wheel of Time book this weekend… I will type up the review noew %)
Book Four: The Shadow Rising, By Robert Jordan, 1006 pages
This book takes place about a year after the first. Rand and the others are forced into deciding what path each of them is to follow… inevitably splitting them up again. This book really focuses on showing how each character has changed since leaving home, for better or worse, and also give us a much better picture of some of their enemies, the 9 remaining Forsaken. It also aroused a great number of new suspicions and mysteries that I am very interested in being explored in the next books…
Well I’m gonna go noew… besides that php tutorial that I’m dying to get back to I still need to take a shower this morning after I clean the kitchen… *wanders off*
Monday, Aug 26th, 2002 at 20:33
That picture of Merlynn is adorable! How long do chinchillas live? Isn’t Dweezle really old now?