I'm trying to keep busy this weekend, hopefully I'm heading out for the night. I was supposed to be getting married tomorrow. I'm doing better than I thought would be. In the next few days I need to try and just get rid of the dress and everything else, and hopefully after awhile, October 16 will just be like any other day.

Sassy, here's some getting-through~ma, and, well, you need to do this, too: [link]

Made out with the gay boy whose house the party was at (he was dressed as Prince)

Teppy, why for to make out with the gay boy?

Breaking news: Mallory is crawling. Just started. And he's heading towards the power cord for the modem, so we could lose Intern

Because there just aren't enough angry, passionately indifferent people in the world.

Hello. Have you met me? WHATever!

Morning, all. I am full of gronk after catching teh red eye from Sacramento to Houston. Two hours before boarding for the final leg to Baton Rouge. Can I stay awake enough to hear my boarding call? This'll be a fun game, I'm sure.

Sassy, I hope today is as pleasant and unremarkable as you desire.

Mmm, chocolate martinis. Mmm, boys dressed like Prince.

I seem to have gotten out o fthe habit of coffee. I think this is gonna negatively impact my awake to sleep ratio and downgrade my productivity.

Why am I awake? Why am I doing homework?

-t, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you, dh, and your stuff.

Suzi, I don't know why you're awake, but you're doing homework, because you are awake and have so much everything to do, but homework won't wake up the other people in your house. Being awake when everyone else is still sleeping is the seekrit bonus of waking up early.

Because you are just that dedicated to lifelond learning and increasing the sum of knowledge in the world?

I just figured out that your name might refer to Iron Maiden last night on the way to the airport, btw. Why that suddenly popped into my head I don't know.

-t. that is where it comes from all right! Just saw them live a couple of months ago!

Yes, homework is something I can do without waking the rest of the house and it is something I am behind on. BUT writing a paper about the Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe at 5am is just wrong.

Thanks, Cindy. Henry went by the house on Saturday - there is an eviction notice on the door, but all our stuff is there and intact and not moldy, as fasr as he could tell. Our neighbor on the other side of the wall was there watching TV - with all the drywall gone from the bottom 4 ft of the first floor, we're gonna have few secrets from each other - he's pretty mad about the fact that we are not allowed to continue our lease and seems to be living there. Which might be a good sign.

5 am seems like the perfect time to search for intelligent life in the universe. Large portions of intelligent life should be asleep at 5am, and therefore easier to find than at other times when it is probably moving around. The early bird spots the alien.

I hope your paper makes more sense than I do, MG.

I hope your paper makes more sense than I do

It is not looking good at the moment. I'm afraid I may still have chocolate martini's in my system. Four hours sleep does not seem enough.

I'm just down to one more PowerPoint slide to do to accompany the paper. I'm out of ideas. I need to find pretty space pictures, I think.

-t is funny.

Do you have an assigned number of PowerPoint slides, MG?

This is cool. [link] Not sure it's $50 worth of cool, but it's cool.

We've been babyproofing today. When Legion was a kitten, he liked to chew through the wires for the burglar alarm at around 4 am. We stopped this by putting almond oil on the wires. Somehow I don't think that will work for the baby (reason #18, Why Babies Are More Trouble Than Cats), so we're taping, hiding, blocking all the cords. No more loose baby in the computer room.

I had to order cabinet locks, as the cabinet handles in this house are atypical for Greece (Germanophile landlord), and they haven't arrived yet. I've covered all the outlets that are in the open (yay 220v power), and stair gate installation is next.

I think it's time for boarding school.