and i’m sitting here at the eastside panera, in a big comfy chair, and it’s cool and lovely and life feels good.
pretty good, anyway.
first – i must tell you that i misspoke in that last entry. mis-wrote. i said that tim burton added the thing about the indian prince to “charlie and the chocolate factory,” but i started reading the book again, and that part is in the book! his name is prince pondicherry, and tim burton captured it perfectly. i also noticed that he used some of Roald Dahl’s actual words in the telling of the story. GO SEE IT, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
today i told a guy about how i like writing here because i get to write pretty much whatever i want. he pointed out the name, uncensored, and said he HOPES i get to write what i want. i told him i’m a pretty severe editor.
i think my computer fixed itself. i know they can’t really do that, but it seems better now. maybe it just took a while for all that virus-scanning to sink in thoroughly. I KNOW that can’t happen either.
however, it seems to be working. i can close the lid and when i open it back up, i don’t have to re-start it.
fixed itself.
B. is going to clean the registry for me, by the way, and then it will REALLY work well. better than ever, maybe.
i’m excited today, because i think i’ve come up with a way to get rid of all the horrible spam postings on my comment section (the section that we had to remove, but they’re still really here, i know this is all very dull, but it makes me CRAZY). i want them to be gone for good because i want to have an accurate count of how many people visit this site, and i think the numbers are inflated because of all the evil bastard poker sites, etc. but i think they’re about to be removed forever now.
we’ll just see.
and then, my computer will be working, my website will be in A+ order, and life will be PERFECT.
right?
i don’t think i’m going to be in that race next weekend. too hot and humid, and it’s supposed to get hotter and hotter. i was looking forward to just running, no swimming or biking, but i wouldn’t want to have to pass out in the heat.
i went to see “annnie get your gun” at muni on thursday night, and i don’t know why people weren’t passing out on the stage like crazy. it was sweltering just sitting there, and i can’t imagine being up on the stage in a heavy costume, dancing around. they actually managed to look like they were enjoying themselves, well done for them. my favorite number involved a group of gangly cowboys who did this really cleverly choreographed dance. i can’t remember the name of the particular song, but it was the only one involving cowboys dancing by themselves.
ok, one quick note, the only downside of being here at panera – sometimes other people are here, too. i don’t know why; these people suddenly surrounding me aren’t even eating. there’s an entire family on one side of me, including a mother and father and two children and a little baby. the baby was crying, but at least it has stopped. the father is reading the paper. maybe they’re from out of town, and they’re waiting for something or somebody? at least they’re all fairly quiet.
but just now some loud woman came and sat next to me with her friend, and the one is showing the other a bunch of family photos and they’ve spread them all over the table and they bug me. a lot. but i know that if i sit here long enough, they’ll go away. each photo does seem to contain at least 16 people per picture, and she’s describing every family in minute detail, including somebody who has cancer, somebody who just got divorced, a cousin who lost 100 pounds, somebody who’s going to move out west…
enough already.
ok, i have to delete a bunch of bad stuff now. i feel there were at least three other things i wanted to mention, but maybe when it’s quieter in here.
ok then,
grace staying cool.