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i’ve tried to keep myself busy - drinking, movies, and outings….anything to keep myself from thinking and from stressing and from feeling anything too intense.

movies for last week:

cowboy bebop
[my second time, with Wes - he kept falling asleep]

nothing to lose
[at the san francisco international film festival] “Although made in Thailand, Pang brings his sensibility of the Hong Kong action-comedy-tragedy to the film”

better luck tomorrow
(we tried to see Jet Lag, at the SF International Film Festival, but it was sold out and there was a line around the block, for rush tickets)

movies bought last week:
kissing jessica stein
sweet home alabama
about a boy

books bought last week:
about a boy
waiting to exhale
[I finished both of them by Friday]

….so lots of money spent last week….on a starving tech’s budget

other stuff that happened this weekend…

• went to the opening of the new Ferry’s Farmers Market on Saturday…
• checked out an Indian Pow Wow on campus….

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I found out from the gym that this guy has been placed on administrative leave.
I need to call back and to explain some details…which I don’t want to do…but i understand why it’s needed. the gym said it’s most likely he won’t be coming back. i tried to work yesterday, but i couldn’t deal with the demanding customers - i basically started chewing their heads off….i called up the campus counselors for advice and help and they put me contact with my old therapist. at least, for myself, talking to her will flush some ways i can deal with this trauma.

mark, my honey, was very sweet to me yesterday. i said i didn’t feel human and i would give anything to feel beautiful again. he had me dress up and we went out to a lovely restuarant in north beach….like a date. it felt wonderful - talking about movies, books, life, anything. i told him this was the first time i felt like a lady…in the last few days.

so…it’s hard…but i’m not going to let this guy and this horrible act ruin everything i’ve built up for myself.

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1. Your reason for not staying in touch with some family and friends is
because they do not have e-mail.

2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so
she can create a screen saver.

4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home.

5. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom
of the screen.

6. You buy a computer and 3 months later it’s out of date and sells for
half the price, or less than you paid for it.

7. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the
first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.

8. Using real money, instead of a credit or debit card, to make a
purchase would be a hassle and take planning.

9. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.

10. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

11. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.

12. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.

13. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.

14. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.

15. You disconnect from the Internet and you get this awful feeling, as
if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

16. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

17. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on
your way back to bed.

18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

19. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

20. Even worse; you know exactly who you are going to forward this to!

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Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year’s incoming freshmen. Here’s this year’s list:

• The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
• Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
• The CD was introduced the year they were born.
• They have always had an answering machine.
• They have always had cable.
• They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
• Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
• They can’t imagine what hard contact lenses are.
• They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from.
• They never heard: “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a Camel,” or “de plane Boss, de plane.”
• They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.
• McDonald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.
• They don’t have a clue how to use a typewriter.

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several American politicans used some pretty heavy language about Syria and it’s alleged ties to Iraq…..the story used one video clip of the Syrian Foreign Minister protesting the American allegations. He demanded to see the evidence for their allegations…..“where is the evidence?”

hate to break to ya, but I don’t think the U.S. needs to present any evidence to attack another country….thanks to this current offensive on Iraq, the United States has shown that it has absolutely no respect for the United Nation’s authority, no respect for the international community, and doesn’t care about the thousands of American people protesting his decision….

it’s quite disheartening to come to that conclusion…..but that’s how I see it.

I am so disappointed in our government…allegedly an authority governed by the people and for the people. I don’t see myself being represented in decisions being made in the white house and on capitol hill. if Bush doesn’t even care about what the protestors are saying, what other recourse do they have to be heard? to have their opinions be taken seriously? what chance does the average American have to influence policy if the head of state doesn’t give a damn about what he/she has to say?

last dec, I interviewed Barabra Sonneborn for kalx. we talked about the possible military mobilization. i asked her if she felt like she had access to our current government - if she had the ablity to be heard by our politicans. she said no, not on the national level. Yes, Congeresswoman Barbara Lee has made it clear by her voting record, especially after 9/11….so, Sonneborn felt at least on the local level - politicans are in touch with their constituencies.

I think about what she said now, in the face of the war mongering in this country…it certainly feels like I don’t have a voice. and that the head of state doesn’t give a shit about me.

solution - ok all you third party supporters - vote DEMOCRAT! do you know how close that florida voting fiasco came down to? a frickin’ 1000 votes! do you think we’d been in this situation now if bush had lost? I’m not saying that Gore was anybody’s favorite, but give me a break, I don’t think he would have pissed off tthe rest of the international community and invade Iraq with texas rifles blazing. I want to encourage a third party candidate to become part of our mainstream voting choices…..but if it comes down a strategic voting choice on another close bush vs. democrat candidate - i’m going to vote in favor of keeping bush out of office - and that means choosing the frickin’ democratic candidate (as long as he’s not too off his rocker)

speaking about voting….looks like there might be a vacancy for governor of California….i figured I might as well throw my hat into the ring….if I understand this correctly: if the recall is successful - then somebody has to be elected - not necessarily the runner-up from the last election. I think that means a write-in arrangement…so…I may be starting up my own internet write-in campaign…

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