mm, saturday morning. i slept in until, oh, 8:30. at least. that was my goal. sleeping in 'til 8, oh yeah.

and don't even think i'm being facetious here. yesterday i woke up at 6:30 for, oh, no good reason, and was unable to return to sleepyland until 8ish and only slept until 9. so 8:30 is pretty fucking grand, if you ask me. my body is stupid.

yesterday was a good damn day. after my battle with morning insomnia, i dragged myself out of the house at noon to meet chris at the metro cinemas and watch secretary. holy wow, that was a crazy movie. very good. maggie gyllenhaal is skinnier than i thought, though. (becky: you should definitely see this if it comes to olympia. you will probably like it.)

i went home, made myself some lunch, and got an email from christine saying she was on for the gossip out in redmond that night, and that her and jesse were stopping by the harem around 3, and i should join them if i felt so inclined. i did, but i didn't leave until abour 3. they weren't there yet, anyway, but i saw jana, reid, lauren, and tiffany, the latter two of whom are new haremites actually living in the harem. after christine and jesse did show up and we all gushed over each other and the old harem and awwww, it's so weird!, we went with jana to the mongolian grill on the ave and ate until we could not eat no mo'. i only had two little bowls, too, and i was so full. $7 for one meal is insane! heh. i must pay $7 for eating in the restaurant AND taking home leftovers, dammit! i am a cheapskate student! the trouble with all-you-can-eat places is that i don't typically feel the need to eat all that much, and i don't get leftovers. oh well.

at one point, christine remarked that i was eating more vegetarian than they were (meaning her and jesse, the recovering vegetarians), and i said my thing was now to not eat meat unless i *really* wanted it, which isn't often, cos i don't actually care too much for meat in most cases. it's all right, but it's just kind of there. basically, if the vegetarian option is just as good, i will probably choose it. or seafood. i like me some seafood.

we spent a rather long time at the restaurant, just hanging out. my friends are cool for such things. jana had a hair appointment at 6 and jesse had to be to the paradox at 6:30, so i just went home and waited. i was very tired, so i made myself a small pot of coffee (only yielded a cup and a half) and relaxed. christine came over, and i said we should leave at 8 instead of 7 since she probably wouldn't like the first band and i needed to relax, and she was amenable. then chris showed up, and we sat around listening to a steve martin record until 8.

driving to redmond was an adventure. the old fire house is a cool venue, though crawling with high schoolers. i think it's good when a place can literally crawl with high schoolers (seriously, they were on all fours and drooling and everything, maybe they have early alcohol problems...sorry, just have to mock my own misuse of "literally") and still be cool. we got inside just in time to do some people watching before the gossip went on. they played a short set, felt like mostly new songs, although they did do "swing low" and "ain't it the truth," of which i am especially fond. i am going to be excited for their new record when i know its release date. we decided to leave after their set, though, because people were hot and tired (sorry, jesse, i'm sure the blood brothers were really cool, though!) and we are just oh so old.

on the drive back, we decided to go way out west to ballard and see golden gardens and its many bonfires at night. we arrived an hour before the park closes, which was good timing. there were so many people in the fire pit, but not many in the darker parts. we sat on a log, watched the water, and talked about mormonism for awhile before taking the long and winding road back to the u-district.

today i must go to the farmer's market and buy veggies to bring to lindsay's bbq, then go to lindsay's bbq, then go to josie's party. uf, so much partying. mike mocked me for being a college party girl. this is hardly the norm! although there will be a harem thing next weekend, too, i don't know that you'd call it a party...

and now, i will shower.

listening: nirvana - on a plain (unplugged)

gosh, i've been busy. i've felt like writing, i guess, but not enough to really sit down and do so.

i took my stupid stats test monday morning. i passed with 142/200 points. that brought my grade down to a 3.4 in the class, but that's still pretty fucking good. definitely good enough for being a pre-req for my lab course.

after the test, my mom picked me up. we had lunch at agua verde, which she liked (of course), and drove back to olympia. i had a boring couple of days in olympia, though my mom and i did some shopping (i got two new skirts--a black fancy one for upcoming wedding attendance and a faux-suede long red one that is comfy and pretty) and i saw becky just before i went home.

my doctor's appointment went well enough; i have a new prescription for nasal spray goodness to fill since i am not fond of being stuffy and sneezy. the bump on my neck is some sort of benign cyst, like a really bad pimple, and while it won't go away, it won't cause me further grief in the event that i do nothing. i would still like to get it removed, though. the nurse informed me that i've lost something like 15-20lb since the year before, and my doctor told me a zillion times how much he wanted to go back to the halcyon days of those first two years of college. he spent all his college years at UW, too, so he ought to know. yayexciting.

i have the civic up here now. my apartment manager gave me a parking spot for free through october because when mom called to arrange for a spot (she decided i needed one, not me) and told him dad had just died, so she wanted me to be able to come home more often--not *exactly* the case, but anyway--and then asked the price for a few weeks of parking, the manager indicated it would be taken care of. he knows who i am, though i don't know why. anyway, i just went into the office today, said, "hi," and he said, "hi, emily. parking?" i am glad i didn't have to explain things; i would've felt bad. but free parking, that's pretty good.

it is good to learn to drive around this city. i am slowly getting less scared of it, even going places i don't know well. today chris and i tried to get to the guitar center on westlake and made a wrong turn and went to the edge of fremont/queen anne and took some detours back to downtown to get to the store. chris just needed some nylon guitar strings for his cheap mexican guitar. i think it was worth it. then we drove to the arboretum, which is always nice. it was cool to see the lake from the park-end rather than the canoe-end, although i love the canoes.

later we drank coffee, which i think i have finally learned how to make well, and sat around for ages and ages. then we decided to go see swimming at the varsity, which stars lauren ambrose of six feet under. the movie was pretty damn good. we also made plans to see secretary tomorrow, which looks funny as hell as well as being interesting. maggie gyllenhall is cute, just like her brother, only she's endearing and he's crazy.

stuff is going to start getting crazy as fuck soon enough. sunday is my last day without plans for um.. a long time! tomorrow is the cheap showing of the aforementioned movie, as well as perhaps seeing a punkrock show out in redmond in the evening. saturday i need to go to the farmer's market and buy veggies to bring to lindsay's bbq, which is that afternoon, followed by a housewarming party at josie's. WHEW. i'm gonna be partied out. school starts monday, friday kevin arrives, then more school... sometime the internship will begin anew, the following weekend is my cousin sean's wedding and maybe going back to olympia for my brother's first concert with the olympia symphony. that would be good of me to go to if i can get back to seattle in a timely manner afterwards.

more later, perhaps. stuff is good and crazy.

listening: aimee mann - the moth