i just read my entry where i was going to reward myself for surviving the weekend by going to see the new wallace & grommit movie. WHY DIDN’T I DO THAT?
do you want to know the shitty thing i did instead? i got out all my winter clothes, and i kept going through my tons and TONS of clothes and got rid of as many as i could, but i still have WAY TOO MANY CLOTHES, and you’d think that since i have this huge amount of clothes, i’d have a lot more CUTE ones.
and then i did the same thing with my shoes, which mostly involved moving many pairs of black sandals off my shoe rack and piling them in my closet, and taking all my black shoes that aren’t sandals out of the closet and hanging them on the shoe rack.
i do have one pair of spiky green very sexy pumps that randy bought me last xmas to go with a very stylish green outfit, but who knows when i’ll get to wear it. somewhere where i can sit a lot.
anyway, at least things are a little more clean right now, which i guess is rewarding, but it’s NOT A LOT OF FUN.
feeling mighty snarly this evening. mighty snarly. grrrr.
keeping up with this whole purging thing, i started looking through all my old saved e-mails; i just looked at the ones i’ve received. i deleted a few here and there, and now the list is down to 11,309. so at least paring down the list is a job i can continue FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. randomly opened a few, and was amazed (but why were you amazed, anyway? i don’t think you should be surprised at all by this) to see that people were giving me the same kind of advice back in 2000 that they are today. have i gotten nowhere since then? sort of not. sort of, but also sort of not. i’d have to say mostly not.
yesterday i spent three hours in the afternoon working on my english paper, and then two more hours, and then two more hours today. THAT’S A LOT OF HOURS. i’m afraid it’s not good enough, i’ve never really tried to write a paper like this where you have to use critical material, and i keep worrying that maybe i’m just describing things, when i should be making a bunch of salient, thoughtful points about stuff. i don’t know, all i know is i’m very tired of working on it.
i didn’t work on writing my play at all, but at least it’s something i kind of look forward to, so there’s a good chance i’ll actually do that this week. i’m already on the second act, so at least it’s coming right along, and on thursday night during class i wrote a very funny scene.
WHY didn’t i go see wallace and grommit? at least i still have it to look forward to…
but i’m so busy this week, maybe i can go NEXT sunday night. maybe if i start planning that right now, it’ll actually happen.
here’s one good thing that happened to me tonight – i found the control for my electric blanket. the blanket, being very large, was easy to find, but i was sure i was never going to find the controls, but i finally found them in the bottom of a closet in a spare bedroom. AND, and this is the really good thing, i found my hiking boots! i’ve been looking for my hiking boots for at least a couple of years now, and i found them in a bag with some shoes that my sister gave me that i didn’t want.
i’m going to denver soon, and i’d wished i could take the hiking boots, but i figured they were gone forever. but they’re not. but they’re probably too heavy to take to denver anyway, but at least i have them. maybe i’ll do some hiking here in my hiking boots, maybe even NEXT WEEKEND, even though i have to finalize my paper, but maybe it’s already final enough. i want to go hiking. in my boots. (in the words of erica, “these boots are made for walkin’…..”)
the last time i went to denver, my luggage was on some other flight, and i didn’t get it for a couple of days. i’d brought a huge bag with me that was absolutely stuffed with clothes, and before it finally arrived, i just wore this same pair of sweats, and borrowed tops from christine’s sister. at this point i thought WHY TAKE SO MUCH STUFF WITH YOU ALL THE TIME??? so i’m trying to remember that when i travel again.
actually, i might not even hike at all in denver because maybe it’ll be TOO DAMN COLD. christine said that although it was sunny and lovely there today, TOMORROW IT’S SUPPOSED TO SNOW.
yeah. holy moley. gee, what would i do if i woke up in the morning and it had snowed?
i definitely, definitely wouldn’t get out of bed.
and then, what if i was nominated for the supreme court and everybody thought that was a horrible, horrible idea, and they made fun of my severe black eyeliner and they called me a “pitbull in size six shoes,” AND it snowed in the morning? gee, if that happened, i think i’d just stay in bed all week.
i still feel bad for harriet miers, and if i knew her phone number, i’d call her up and tell her to go see wallace & grommit.
all i’m going to take to denver are my tiger pants.
ok then,
grace going to go to sleep very early tonight, although usually this backfires horribly and i toss and turn and finally fall asleep but then wake up a lot all during the night so maybe never mind about the very very early part, maybe i’ll just aim for going to sleep at a reasonable hour.