guestbook 9:51 p.m. trains are fun. i took only one vertigo pill today. and i did not have vertigo. 2007-08-14 8:16 p.m. mittens is the absolute best. when i yelled at him about his brother on saturday night, he knew i wasn't mad at him. and i feel so bad for him because he stuck between the two of us, you know. he said that if i wanted, we could move. i told him that's not what i wanted. i told him i just wanted his brother to stop being an asshole about something that wouldn't really even affect him. then i let mittens know how pissed i was about the dining room but had never said anything. i told him i felt like i never should have moved in and that i feel like a visitor in my house. it was good to get all of that off my chest. 2007-08-13 1:09 p.m. i'm going to get my hair done tomorrow. i've been getting it done red, and i think i'm going to go to an even lighter red, almost strawberry blond. eventually, i'm hoping to be blond. can you believe it, me, blond? i think i'll like it. 2007-08-11 12:35 p.m. so i took the train to work the entire week. it's been awesome. i feel so calm and relaxed after my rides. i don't think i'll ever drive into town again. plus, this way my car will last forever. other than the 25 mile round trip i take to revere every week to get my nails done, 3-6 miles round trip i drive a day to the train station and the weekly 10 mile round trip to the shaw's (which is usually included with the trip to revere, so sometimes i don't even have that, i'm driving not more than 65 miles a week. that means a tank of gas will last mean nearly 5 weeks. before, a tank was lasting me only about 10 days. so i need to buy my commuter rail ticket before work starts again on the september 4. we get out the 17th, so there really hasn't been a reason for me to get one this month. the pass is $150 each month, but without it, i would end up paying $350. and it's much easier than having two different tickets to carry around. i just hope i don't lose it. 2007-08-11 1:50 p.m. even though the money sucks, and sometimes i have to deal with assholes, i think i might stay at my job forever. 2007-08-08 9:25 p.m. i'd like a nice pizza right now. last time i wished for a certain kind of feel, i got it. it was for some fried chicken this weekend. and it happened on saturday. 2007-08-05 9:19 p.m. ack! my mom is dating someone. gross! how that ills me. she also gave me a guilt trip about not hearing from me. she complained because tammy and my sister aren't keeping in touch. according to my mom, who's heard it from my sister, tammy isn't making enough effort. whatever, i know my sister and i wouldn't believe a word that bat-shit insane broad said. tammy and i don't talk every day or every week or every month, but we still have a relationship, and it's not like i think she's cheating on my family with another family. (okay, so maybe i feel like she's cheating on me with other kids, but that's neither here nor there.) what a fucking pain in the ass this all is. my mom and my sister are so fucked up and insane. my mom told me how calm i sound. i told her it was because of the anti-vertigo drug. next time, i will tell her i'm high on grass. 2007-08-05 9:07 p.m. doesn't the whole justified album sound just like michael jackson during off the wall. 2007-08-05 9:01 p.m. these pills i'm taking for the vertigo are pretty good. 2007-08-05 8:56 p.m. nobody wants to go with me to the joseph cornell exhibt. i mean, really, nobody wants to go. i've called three people and all of them are really evasive about it. wtf? 2007-08-05 8:17 p.m. i still think "fell in love with a girl" by the white stripes is the best song of all time ever. 2007-08-05 5:37 p.m. i didn't get to ride my bike all last week because i was just so tired. i finally got to ride today. it was wonderful. i only rode 12 miles, but it was great to be back out there again. can anyone (hi colleen) recommend some podcasts maybe? 2007-08-05 8:42 p.m. i spoke to the psychiatrist. i said to her, "i don't think i ever told you i stopped taking the pill. i didn't really think it was important." she told me, "yeah, that's pretty important." she's got kind of an attitude, which is why i like her. i've been working on having an attitude more. you see, i don't like to be rude to people, because i don't like it when people are like that to me. but as i've had to experience it more, and as i've increased my attitude, i've gotten stronger and able to deal with it more. i'm learning it from a woman named romanie at work. she's my attitude hero. i told her how i'm learning so much from her and that i've still got more to learn. she's seems impressed to hear that and she's been really supportive. she and i are the same age and we get along well. i like her and if she were to leave the job, i'd like to keep in touch with her. that might mean seeing her kids, but i could deal with that. oh my god. i'm freaking out because at some point before this year is over, i will have turned 30. i told my psychiatrist last time i saw her, "nobody else thinks it's important, but i think it's important. and so i've started to tell people, i know it's not important to you, it's important to me and i just keep waiting for other people to validate me feelings, but i don't need people to validate it how i feel, it's important to me!" and i could see she was so proud of me for saying and feeling all that. 2007-08-03 3:45 p.m. oh, so listen to how i got this 3 year old kid in trouble at the hospital. i was sitting there. and everytime he would look over at me, i would stick my tongue out at him. no big deal, right? he starts laughing every time i do it, but i only did it when his mom wasn't looking, so she didn't know what was going on. then he stuck his tongue out at her. she didn't like that and told him that was not acceptable and to never do it again. yes!!!! mittens said i should have given him the finger. i thought about doing it, but was afraid someone would see me. 2007-08-03 3:25 p.m. all of the magazines say brad pitt and angelina jolie have split. i do not think that is more exciting than the lindey lohand drama. 2007-08-03 2:47 p.m. yay. i don't have meniere disorder, but when i first told the doctor what was going on and told her i looked it up on the internet and it said meniere disorder, she said that's initially what she thought. but she did a bunch of neurological testing and checked my ears. she sent me to the hospital for a ct scan and blood work. it scared the shit out of me that she wanted me to go immediately for a ct scan to make sure i "don't have any tumors or anything," but she doesn't think that's what it is and just wants to rule it out. it's kind of a long story of what she thinks it is. you see, i've been on lamictal, a mood stabilizer for a few years now. that's nothing new or anything, but during the last 6 months, we've increased the dose by about 100mg. also during the last 6 months, i've stopped taking the pill. it turns out that the pill counteracts a portion of the lamictal. i stopped taking the pill at the end of april and started having these crazy things happen at the end of may, so the doctor thinks the amount of lamictal i have in my system is too much and is what could be causing the dizziness. that's why she ordered the blood work. so she's given me an antihistamine called antivert (as in anti-vertigo) that i have to take 3 time/day. i have a follow-up appointment on wednesday at 4:45. she was so nice to squeeze me in like that. she seemed so very concerned. it was nice to have someone listening to me. it was actually the nurse practioner who saw me until my doctor came and gave a second opinion (which is awesome!), and when she came in the room i nearly started crying and told her how debilitating this has become over the last two weeks and what would i do if i couldn't do my job that i love so much anymore. she was so concerned and really listened to everything i was saying. and she is really making sure it isn't something serious. that means so much to me. i've called the psychiatrist to double check with her and let her know what exactly is going on. now, i'm just waiting for her call. imagine if that's not it, though. imagine if i just have perpetual motion sickness. how embarrassing would that be? 2007-08-03 8:35 a.m. home from work again today. i have a dr. appointment at 10. i'm kind of hoping the dizziness and vertigo will occur so she can actually see it. more than anything, i hope she can give me something to treat the vertigo so i can go on about my business. this just isn't working for me. i can't wait to go back to work on monday so i can take the T. i really enjoy it. 2007-08-03 8:33 p.m. did you know i'm in love with wyatt? i love the way he looks. i love how he listens to people and absorbs what they say. i love it that he's looking for something. 2007-08-02 8:22 p.m. have you ever been watching a movie and just really wanted to be where they are in the movie? that's how i feel about the monument valley montage in easyrider. and i don't just want to go to monument valley (though i am really dying to go there!), i want to be there with with wyatt and billy and the hippy. i get so giddy and excited. i've never felt so excited! but i'm going to save up for us to go to the desert next year. we've been trying to plan some sort of long vacation, but we hadn't fully decided where to go. maybe we can fly to oklahoma, get a car and drive out to california and see monument valley and the grand canon. i really want to go. 2007-08-02 3:02 p.m. it's fucking hot here. but not as hot as in oklahoma. oh, wait, yes it is. 2007-08-02 2:52 p.m. i just got $225 worth of stuff for $85 at the torrid.com half price clearance sale. shipping was only $11. i'm awesome!!! gingham is very popular presently. i have a dress, a shirt, a pair of capris and now a hoodie. also, everyone keeps telling me how awesome i look. did you know i've now lost 25 lbs? i do feel better. also, i think i have meniere disease. i've had constant pain in my right ear since i had that infection back in 2002. i really believe this is what i have. i'm going to the doctor tomorrow. hopefully she will be able to identify what the problem is and help me. 2007-08-02 12:05 p.m. so i'm home again because of the dizziness. it was so bad today that i vomitted. and i still feel bad. anyway, i'm going to the doctor tomorrow at 10. my boss is comp. timing me for the days off. 2007-08-02 7:54 p.m. until i started freaking out yesterday, i hadn't really known how much things from my childhood still hurt me. 2007-07-30 10:38 a.m. did i mention that if i ever got married, i would be using origami flowers all over the place and in my hair and stuff. i love origami. it is my new hobby. maybe while i'm out, i'll get more origami paper. 2007-07-29 10:28 a.m. there's a joseph cornell exhibt at the peabody-essex!!! don't hate. anyone want to go? and an origami exhibit. and, after 5 years of an artless existance, i am inspired. 2007-07-29 10:38 p.m. i've just gotten most of my old extensions. the only really important one i missing is backisclose so that i just have to click the back button to close a tab. 2007-07-28 12:59 p.m. it's all rain and thunder right now. how wonderful it is. 2007-07-28 12:55 p.m. mittens brother does not stop with going to the bathroom. seriously. and when he goes in there, it's sometimes for nearly an hour. it's frustrating because you might be waiting for up to 45 minutes to piss. and you have to get in there as soon as he comes out because he will rush in again. he was just in there for about 35 minutes half an hour ago. he's back in there again. i need to get in the shower so i can get my nails done. i'll probably be late from waiting for him. 2007-07-28 9:19 p.m. i should grade these quizzes. but meh, i'm so lazy. plus, tavares is about to close this ball game. swoon... also, i started my period while wearing white pants today. yes! 2007-07-26 9:12 p.m. man, my life if boring. i get up, bath, go to work, do the same shit there everyday, i drive home, i ride my bike, i smoke some grass and then i take the benadryl and go to bed. then, mittens gets in bed and gives me a kiss. i don't think i would change my life anyway. 2007-07-26 8:07 p.m. lindsey lohand. that girl is fucked up. 2007-07-24 9:05 p.m. speaking of post-feminist pop culture, i accidentally bought the song "buttons," by the pussycat dolls. it's not a bad song. 2007-07-23 9:01 p.m. i'm not really bothered by people calling me a bitch. i think it was sort of growing up in a post-feminist pop culture where women were embracing the things they'd grown up hearing were awful about women. i worry that it's because i'm white trash. you know how white trash women are. 2007-07-23 8:57 p.m. if you are using internet exploring, you are a damn fool. you should be using mozilla or firefox or seamonkey with the ad-block extension. i just had to look at a website with internet exploring and there were so many fucking ads flashing and floating around that i had a hard time finding the actual content. 2007-07-23 8:46 p.m. did i mention i've lost 20 lbs since may. it's awesome. i'd like to lose 10 more before i visit my dad at the end of next month. i'll look so good. 2007-07-23 8:39 p.m. i'd give anything, ANYTHING to find out what's going to happen to britney spear in the future. i'm dying to know. i was out riding my bike. a car stopped. i looked to see why it stopped. there was a duck and her babies crossing the street. i stopped also. i made quacking noises and clapped and called, "yay." it was the happiest thing i've maybe ever seen. 2007-07-23 1:24 p.m. 2008-07-04 7:03 p.m. i saw some sort of animal run across the street. it was like a beaver with a hairy tail. what was that? 2007-07-22 7:01 p.m. one of my students told me the other day that i look more than a few years older than the last time i saw him. it was only a year and a half ago that i had him in class. 2007-07-22 6:18 p.m. it's been kind of a lonely weekend for me. mittens has been with the guys recording, leaving early both yesterday and today and coming home late both nights. but he's so nice to me, you know. last night, he made sure we had a nice dinner out together instead of just smoking grass and watching tv. having him away has made the days so leisurely. like today. i did not have to get up and go wherever he wanted. i got to sleep on the couch a bit, watch some tv, ride the bike, get the groceries, eat a meal and now i'm upstairs, smoking some grass. and it's only 6:20. i will spend the rest of the evening reading and watching alton brown. 2007-07-22 1:55 p.m. i fell asleep at about 11 last night and woke up at about 7:00 with mittens. he took a shower and i lay in the bed. after he got out of the shower, i used to bathroom. while i was in the bathroom, breaux came to the house. when i came out of the bathroom, i bumped into breaux as i walked into the clubhouse. mittens and breaux left a few minutes later and i went to watch tv on the couch. i got down there at about 7:45. i was asleep by 8 and slept until nearly 12:30. how tired i must have been. 2007-07-21 8:39 p.m. i was sick when i went to work on monday. a sore throat and sinus issues. but by wednesday, i felt fine. i thought i was over it. then i woke up this morning all chest congested. i am still sick. 2007-07-20 9:36 p.m. i reallllly want to go to yosemite park. 2007-07-19 9:13 p.m. i had always loved that song, "fever for the flavor," but had never listened to the words. that song is fresh! 2007-07-19 8:07 p.m. mittens gave me a compliment. at least, he did his best to give me a compliment. he said to me, "is that prescription stronger?" i told him it's actually a weaker prescription. he said to me, "maybe those glasses make your eyes look bigger or more blue or something." then he mumbled, "but i like it." it was endearing and i thanked him. 2007-07-19 4:47 p.m. so i'm trying to find a book to read after i finish "finn." i'm thinking of some sort of modern classic. but i can't think of what. maybe hemmingway. what's a good hemmingway book for me to read? please recommend something for me. it doesn't have to be hemmingway, but i'd like it to be some post world war ii classic. i've also thought about don quixote. i get so intimidated by it. 2007-07-19 9:21 p.m. i lied to a kid today and told him i jewish because he gave me the nazi salute. 2008-07-04 9:20 p.m. i wish other people were as miserable as i always am. 2007-07-18 6:51 p.m. oh how i love the roll of thunder. this book "finn" i'm reading isn't an easy read. books often overwhelm me. 2007-07-15 6:49 p.m. fyi new email address jodiemartin at catlover.com 2007-07-15 6:23 p.m. doing the laundry = xlamex 2007-07-15 1:28 a.m. we went swimming today. it was a wonderful time. i can't wait to go back. what's more fun than paddling around in the water? other than riding my bike. we had such a wonderful day. we ate hamburgers and sausage and some chicken. and some sort of delicious macaroni salad made with sweet relish. we threw a tennis ball back and forth in the pool. mittens won $7 for catching one ball in each hand at the same time. i need more days like today. 2007-07-15 9:17 a.m. i want this, but it doesn't work with my phone. the next phone i get, i will make sure it does work with. 2007-07-14 10:00 p.m. i've gotten dizzy and seen double every day this week. it so terrible at about 10:30 in the morning. 2007-07-13 9:56 p.m. a couple of nights ago, i dropped some grass on the bedroom floor. and i was too stoned to find it. i must have stepped on it this morning, because when i got to work, i felt something in my shoe. i took my shoe off and the grass was stuck to the bottom of my foot. i threw it in the trashcan. at my job. as a teacher in a jail. i rock. 2007-07-13 9:52 p.m. i couldn't send email in my sweet seamonkey. but i did some research and now it is fixed. it turns out you have to have it set to port 465 with the ssl connection. i was afraid i would have to use another mail program. 2007-07-13 7:45 p.m. i finished "huckleberry finn" last night. i was very unhappy with the ending. i mean, it was like one of those old movies that just end so suddenly with the woman riding off the marry the man. (there was some movie, i think it was "she done him wrong," that i fell asleepy during in my women in film class. i was only asleepy for about 5 minutes and when i woke up, mae west was about to marry off to some guy i'd never even seen in the movie.) so yeah, it had a sudden ending and i was left feeling unfulfilled and like i'd wasted my time. i'm really sad because the book was so fucking good until the last two pages. THE LAST TWO PAGES. i would still recommend reading it to anyone, but i would always tell them to skip the last to pages and tell them what happens to huck and jim. also, even those he's been doing awful, julian tavares still makes me swoon with his bizarre behavior. 2007-07-13 8:50 p.m. i'm not much of a reader. but i heard about this book, "finn" on the npr. it is the story of what happens to huckleberry finn's father. so i read "tom sawyer" and i'm about 30 pages from finished with "huckleberry finn." "huckleberry finn" is the best book i've ever read. i'm sorry it will soon be over. 2007-07-10 8:27 p.m. work wasn't so bad today. other than being so tired that i saw double. that happens to me often on mondays. booo! 2007-07-09 8:04 p.m. on split ends, there was a self-hating black woman this week. 2007-07-09 6:47 p.m. does a cat know that when you kiss him it means you love him? i'm reading huckleberry finn. it's the best book i've ever read. how conflicted huck is. you should read it. what will i read after i've read the new book about huck's father, called just "finn." the old roommate was supposed to come by to get his stuff today. a few boxes and a desk. he came by last weekend. we told him we'd thrown most of it away. we decided to go swimming so as not to see him today. do you know if he came by? 2007-07-08 8:50 p.m. so some time back, maybe a year or so ago, something happened to my copy of mozilla. it involved some plug-in that i don't remember, but after i removed the plug in the problem was worse. i don't even remember what the problem was. so i ended up switching over to firefox. it was okay, but not as great as mozilla. then, a few weeks ago, an update to firefox was put out. how i hated it. so i looked on the mozilla.org website to see if i could get an older version of firefox. i couldn't really track one down and i didn't want to mess up the okay browser i was using. then, i found a thing for mozilla seamonkey that said "...code derived from the application formerly known as 'mozilla application suite.'" i thought, "hello, what's this?" and downloaded it. it's AWESOME!!! it's exactly what my old mozilla was but without whatever that problem was. also, it imported all of my settings from mozilla. i haven't been able to get all of the extentions i had for firefox, but i'm okay with that. i'm just happy to have my good browser back. also, mittens' mom called me to tell me that she and her boyfriend think i'm "fabulous," and a really great person. that made me feel good. they also said what a great time they had hanging out with us last weekend. that also made me feel good, 'cause i had a great time with them. 2007-07-08 6:39 p.m. we went swimming today. how fun it was! while we were in the pool, a duck and her five ducklings walked by. then walked toward a bush and stopped for a moment. then, they got in the pool with us. mittens took pictures. i swam around some more. we got out and watched them for a while. it was so cute watching the babies trying to do the stuff their mother does. finally, as we were getting ready to go, they hopped out of the water. by the time we came back from the store, they were gone. how cute it is to see ducks swimming in a pool. i'm back to work tomorrow. meh. i didn't get to sleep until nearly 5 am last night (this morning?) and was up at 10:30 today. that was not enough sleepy. it's actually a good thing, as it means i'll be in bed on time tonight. 2007-07-08 5:48 p.m. i can't help it about rod stewart. i'd imagine this is how women used to feel about tom jones. also, i'd never understood about women and patrick swayze. like, i thought he was a good looking man, but not really swoon-worthy. then, i watched "dirty dancing" a while back. he's hawt in it. i was shocked at my reaction. i'm going to swoon over rod stewart for a while. 2007-07-07 5:38 p.m. rod stewart still makes me swoon. 2007-07-07 8:10 p.m. i got new glasses. i'm so ready to go back to work. raoul just brought me a mouse!!! 2007-07-05 12:11 p.m. my thumb hurts. 2007-06-29 11:51 a.m. woot! i got a huge bonus. this is awesome!!! i'm going to get new glasses today. first, i will take a shower, then i will go to the target to have my eyes checked. then, i will put in an order for new frames. yes! and maybe i will get them today. probably not, but still, it would be nice. a couple of days ago, the kid who lives next door, gabriel, was out in the back yard. the back yard is all dirt while they are planting new grass. gabriel was lying on a body board type thing pretending to swim in the dirt. it was really strange. he's kind of a strange kid anyway. i'm waiting for him to say to mittens, "you're fat!" but not in a mean way, just the way kids do when they want to tell you something. but not to be mean. 2007-06-29 11:35 a.m. i ended up going out last night and riding nine miles. i'm getting ready to go ride another 15. but first i have to call my job to find out why there is a deposit of nearly $4500 in my checking account. and also to find out where my new insurance card is. if it's supposed to be there, i'm going to get new glasses! woot!!! 2007-06-29 7:16 p.m. i'm taking the day off of riding my bike. because i just need a day off. i don't really want to take it off, and i'm thinking about taking a quick 9 mile ride or something. maybe that's what i'll do. a quick little ride. nah, i'd rather do a 15 or 18 mile ride tomorrow. that will be better. 2007-06-28 6:22 p.m. so mittens' brother is kind of mad at me for moving a bookshelf out of the living room. first of all, it was empty. second, it wasn't really a book shelf, it was a crate. so he told mittens that he's feeling like he doesn't have any space in the house. and i felt bad when mittens told me that. except that i realized that mittens' brother has the entire dining room filled with records and boxes and other stuff. so now, i don't feel bad at all. especially since i have all the stuff i'd like to have access to set up IN THE BASEMENT. seriously, all of the art supplies are down here. the sewing machine in down here and i'm sitting down here typing on the computer. all of my books are in boxes down here. so i don't really feel that bad. i kind of feel bad that my bike is sitting out upstairs, but then i realize that if mittens' brother would deal with that dining room, i could store it in there, out of the way. and i've been hoping he would clean that dining room out anyway, but i haven't said anything. even though he keeps buying more records and putting them in there. never mind that mittens has to keep a bunch of boxes of cds in the hallway because while we have shelves to store them on, we don't have the space in our two rooms. so yeah, christian and i have two bedrooms between us, while jeff has the master bedroom AND the dining room. hell yeah i'm going to make space he doesn't even use into my own. especially since i'm the only one who sits down there. and they'll have to forgive me, but i'm not going to live in a house and keep it looking like it's still lived in by three bachelors. this is my home and i'd like it to be nice. AND, i'm the one who does all the serious cleaning including the following: wiping counters sweeping mopping cleaning shower (more than once a month) vacuuming dusting cleaning the wood floors i mean, i must feel something other than "not feeling bad" at all if i felt the need to write all of this out. but you see, this is my permenant home for a while. and i'd like to live somewhere nice and clean and organized. in fact, i've thought about putting doors on the dining room so i wouldn't have to look at it. we already have a table and chairs in the kitchen, i just feel like the dining room could be utilized for something other than boxes upon boxes upon boxes of records. plus, we've all talked about how much we would like to have a dish washer. but we don't have room for one unless we can move the table and chairs into the dining room. 2007-06-26 12:47 p.m. i'm done with the court. i was more than happy to go through the mediation and got back half the money. which is what i had originally requested from the guy anyway. so that's all squared away. and it sucks that i'm out $500, but whatever. at least i got $500 back, right? The good thing is that i'll now have money to pay bills! i have only a small check--$100 if i'm lucky--coming on 7/6 and then i probably won't get paid again until july 27th. it's going to be a hard month, but i've covered the rent for mittens and me and he will give me $500 on 7/4 and then $300 on 7/18. so overall, i should be fine. as long as my car doesn't die or we don't have a million extra things come up. that's when it gets so scary. 2007-06-26 7:54 p.m. i should have been an administrative assistant. i love putting together binders and copies and stuff. i love preparing presentations as long as i don't have to use powerpoint. if i have to use graphs and stuff, i love it. i'm the best because i'm so anal and uptight about formatting and i like things to look stylish. however, i am currently preparing a binder for all of the stuff for my small-claims court thing tomorrow. it will not be stylish. it will just be thorough and inclusive. 2007-06-25 10:39 a.m. i'm going to ride my bike in a few minutes. can someone please explain to me what is wrong with cisco adler's testicles? i've never seen any like that. 2007-06-25 10:03 a.m. i'm going to call the physical therapy place in just a few minutes. the pain has only gotten worse and woke me up last night. boo for pain in my knees. the doctor also says i have fluid in my right knee. that's gross. it's been like this for years and years. once i get this patellofemoral pain syndrome all squared away, i will deal with the fluid. it's gross. 2007-06-25 9:40 p.m. so i'm putting an ad on craigslist.com for tutoring jobs. i'd like to get two or three people each week at $50/session. if i could get two, i'd have an extra few hundred bucks a month. even if i can get only one person, i'd be happy. so, keep you fingers crossed for me. i'm really fucking awesome at my job and i'd like to keep it, but i can only keep it if i'm making extra money on the side. i don't want to be a waitress. really. 2007-06-24 6:50 p.m. did you know i'm completely hooked on www.tmz.com. and i read star, in touch, us weekly and life & style. i can tell you just about everything that's going on. everything's been so xlamex since paris hinton went to jail and lindsey lohand went to jail. also, britney spear keeps showing her ass and is driving around without car tags. i think only people in oklahoma call them tags. we have tag agencies on every corner and you go there to get your license plates, renew your stickers, get a driver's license (after you've passed the test at the dmv) and there's usually a notary public and stuff. they are all privately owned and trying to make a profit, so they're usually pretty customer service based. it's only since i've lived in maryland and massachusetts that i've understood people complaining about having to go to a dmv or rmv or registry or whatever. it's the evidence i've ever seen for privatization of any sort of government agency. yes, i do think about those sort of things. 2007-06-24 6:48 p.m. so now both of my knees are sore. but at least i rode 15.22 miles today. i could have easily gone another 3. tomorrow i think i will. 2007-06-24 6:46 p.m. mittens and i just had the following conversation: mittens: what are you watching? me: i'm listening to michael feldman. mittens: turn that down. i can't here these guys [on the tv]. me: i can't hear michael feldman over the tv. he didn't have an answer for that. radiownd. 2007-06-24 10:28 a.m. i watched superman returns. that is a good movie. i don't usually like action movies, but i liked superman returns. it so funny that you know it's superman and that everything is going to be saved, but you still get anticipation and nervousness about what will happen. especially with that plane at the beginning. you should watch that movie. now i'm watching batman begins. it's pretty good, but the start is slow. i still can't wait to finish it. i'd like to see the fantastic four movies. and the spiderman movies. and i'm dying for another superman movie. 2007-06-24 10:38 p.m. mintens made a wonderful dinner from a recipe he got from a girl he works with. scallops with sauce of garlic, shallots and scallions-three of my favorites. i'd also gotten some stuffed scallops from the store and we had those with it. it was delicious. he's an amazing cook and has thus far only made one meal that just didn't work in the four and a half years we've been together. that meal was steak tips marinated in all sorts of good stuff that just didn't go together at all. there've been nights when i've ruined two meals, but in four and a half years, he's ruined only one. he's my hero, in case you didn't know. i'm still so flushed from the wine. ohh... 2007-06-23 7:28 p.m. i rode 15 miles on my bike. it was awesome. and i only had to yell at one person. i'm up from 12 miles/hour, to 12.5 miles/hour. i really love the route i've been taking. here's what sucks, though. my knee isn't getting any better. i've been icing it and taking the advil, but nothing is working. so after tuesday, if i'm not feeling better, i'm supposed to start going to the physical therapy place. i'll probably call them on monday unless some sort of miracle happens tomorrow. it's been such beautiful weather there. it didn't get any warmer than about 72F today. we had a few really hot days where it got into the 90s a few weeks ago, but nothing too warm since. in fact, it's been almost cool here. i hope it will stay this way. 2007-06-23 8:17 p.m. i have the worst taste in music on earth. 2007-06-22 1:35 a.m. i really need to go to bed. i've got to leave here by 10 to get to work by 11 tomorrow. i'm going to do the guys' nails. 2007-06-22 5:04 p.m. there's thunder! how wonderful it sounds. the wind is blowing and it's getting darker and darker outside. what is better than a storm rolling in? 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