ugggghhhh.

my back hurts. so bad. right now. for no apparent reason! it's making me sad.

i have taken three ibuprofen tablets, no no avail. i have tried laying down, yoga, stretching, sitting properly... nothing. (and i tried to drink some shitty red wine, but it tasted so awful that i threw it out after a few sips. it was actually a lot like data near the beginning of star trek: generations when he first gets the emotion chip and tries some new drink guinan offers him, and he's all, "i HATE this! it's TERRIBLE!" and guinan asks if he'd like some more, and he says, "please!"--i remember this only because i happen to be watching it right now, of course.) anyway, it sucks, because i was going to go hang out at the street fair and generally enjoy the lovely sunny day looking for coffee-scented candles, but now i really don't feel like leaving the house. i should do laundry, too, but i'm not sure that will happen.

so i am eating far too much chocolate. mmm, chocolate.

let's see. i haven't written in a few days. what is up?

i had a job interview on thursday afternoon, after finding out that my current job will definitely be continuing, so i don't care too much whether or not i get the new job. if i do, it'd be cool; it pays better and might be more valuable to me, but if i don't, it's no great loss. i don't think i did that well in the interview, though. ah well.

i registered for fall quarter friday morning--two 400-level psych classes and beginning newswriting, yay. i may drop one of the psych classes in favor of an internship, should such an opportunity arise. anyway, that was 6am, and i went back to bed and slept until 10:30, leaving me not enough time to skim the book i needed to read for my 11:30 history section, so i skipped it. heh, bad me.

in the afternoon, i did grocery shopping, went canoeing with chris through the arboretum, and saw about a boy, which was very funny. i got to bed kinda late...

this morning, i went to work and did very little. as i was about to leave, my back started hurting. and here we are again. the steet fair is today, and i wanted to go. bleh.

now listening: captain picard and his family in the nexus with the weird christmas music

quick entry.

i'm having breakfast. more basic 4. yum.

things are upcoming and i'm excited! but this morning i have been looking at my past and all that.

kith rocked my socks. i have "running faggot" stuck in my head.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BASEMENT??! GET OUT GET OUT GETOUT!!

ok.

things upcoming:

i'd like to go see sweet science at the theater off jackson on may 25. jason is love on june 1. i tried to order tickets this morning, but the website did something wonky, so i don't know if it went through. waiting to hear from their people.

and june 7, i am flying to california, much thanks to kevin. woo hoo! that will be a blast and a half. i'm really excited.

yeah, i've got nothin', really. nothing at all.

listening: fugazi - nightshop

i just got home from seeing kids in the hall at the paramount.

and may i just say.

I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD.

yep, haven't been *here* in awhile...

not that there is really a lot to tell. i've been busy, but, you know, that's life for me these days.

i realized that i made an error in my poem in the last entry. it should be usda, not fda. duh.

saturday was christine's birthday. happy 20th, chris! we had fun. she made gazpacho while i was at work, and later that afternoon, we discovered canoeing. it was an amazingly beautiful day. we went over to the WAC and rented a canoe for an hour for $3 (with student i.d.!) and ambled around lake washington. simply lovely. i was scared shitless at first, because i didn't have a clue what i was doing and there were waves from bigger boats and i thought we'd fall in for sure and that lake is probably pretty grimy! i quickly stopped freaking out and really got into it. we are definitely going to do it again sometime, provided this ASS-weather that magically appeared yesterday moves right along and makes way for the real spring.

in the evening, lindsay and graylan came by, and a group of us ordered pizza and sad a picnic by the water at the end of brooklyn. mm. lindsay left, and the mercer christians came over for a crepe orgy and a rousing game of balderdash. (this time, i sucked at it.) chris seemed pretty happy with the day.

sunday, my mom said they were all, indeed, coming up here that afternoon--my whole immediate family, including sua, his wife, and daughter, who were driving up from portland--and that we could just go to whole foods (which is known to me as food pr0n) and buy yummy picnic foods and meet up at gasworks. this was fine with me, but i still didn't want to study all morning, and instead went to trader joe's and safeway and bought stuff to make a dessert feast. i made nopudge brownies and wrote "happy mother's day" in green icing that melted in the trapped heat of the civic, makeshift bulculne dulces (layered dessert of meringue, chocolate, whipped cream, and strawberries; i bought little meringue "cookies" from tj's and a can of whipped light cream), and bought some sorbets--my all-time favorite double rainbow chocolate and the intriguing italian blackberry cabernet, which turned out to be deliiiiicious. oh, and some crazy tulips. you gotta buy your mom flowers on mother's day, unless she hates flowers or you're not seeing her or you're broke or something.

we spent maybe a little too long at whole foods, but it was all good, because we got much yumminess for everyone. we spent the remainder of the afternoon and early evening at my local gasworks park, where it was 80 degrees and very sunny. quite lovely, but tiring. they left around 6:30, and chris came over for our weekly six feet under action. only two more episodes this season, and then i will be unable to follow! sniff. stupid digicable being worthless and expensive. i.. do.. not.. need.. tv!! 6fu is really the only thing i watch. sigh.

ok, and sometimes blind date and its ilk, because it's funny. and mike should be on that show. heehehaha.

yeah yeah, and the daily show. still not even gonna get basic cable for that. but damn. jon stewart is love.

yesterday was a day. class, work, simpsons with chris and jesse, being lazy most of the evening. the usual. anyway, i have a psych test this afternoon and work in about 40 minutes, not to mention i should do this after my test like sign up for an interview at the gateway center and do some work in the psych lab before KIDS IN THE HALL TONIGHT!!! WOOOOO!!! heh. :D

listening: jason webley - old man time ain't no friend of mine