trogdor!!

i have new userpics and i'm happy. phwoaa.

in other news, i had to be up super early this morning to drive someone to the airport. upon returning home, i found out that everyone up at 6 am on sunday must be on super speed or some sort of pills, because all that's on is exercise infomercials. i ended up watching the talking heads on the weather channel to put myself back to sleep.

i have done lots of stuff lately and not journaled about it. this i should fix, if only so i have a record for later on when i want to scrapbook about this stuff. um, aliyaskie and i never did finish our crazy posting about our vacation together. i also never posted about the ama superbike shootout at mid-ohio, which took place a couple of weeks before said vacation. i haven't posted about nicky hayden (in the icon) taking the motogp championship, about my classes or the crazy paper i wrote for english that ended up getting an A when i thought i'd get a C, or about thanksgiving. and i don't feel like doing it now! instead i feel like showering and going over to my friend's house to watch football football football wheeeeeeee. i actually did have something to post, but one of my cats has raised a ruckus and now i've forgotten it. oh well. i'm sure it'll come to me later.

super non-post!

( we all knew i was going to )

i am a useless bit of skin right now. i'm tired of unpacking, tired of doing laundry, and tired of sitting around the house. i'm even tired of coming to the library to do this. (well, mostly.) i need to start meeting people and fast.

and i promised some people that i would, so here we are. (plus i'm procrastinating and that's always fun.)

i am supposed to be working on a website for my dad right now. it's not happening so far, even though it really, really should, because i could use the money and so could he. he's going to milan in april and i am utterly jealous. actually, he's going to try to make this a trip from rome to dublin with many stops along the way, milan being the principal one (for my stepsister's wedding). so i'm even more jealous. really, though, i'm just thrilled for him - he's always wanted to go to europe and he's finally getting his chance.

i sent myself gmail invites to other addresses :) i think i'm going to have an address for parents/employers/other crap and an address for friends. maybe also one for email subscriptions. i looked at my new gmail address and realized a) it's easily misspelled and b) anyone who knows it can probably find this journal and i don't really want my parents reading this. well, mostly i don't want my mom reading it, because i do bitch about my relationship with her in here sometimes, but i don't want that to endanger the good side of things. my dad and i get along pretty well in general so no real bitching. at any rate, i'll have like 7 email addresses when i'm done with all this.

i watched Super Size Me the other day. man, if you haven't seen it, you really, really need to. you'll never want to eat mcdonald's again. not that i have in over a year, but blech. at the end, my sweetie and i sort of stared blankly at the screen and said, "um...let's...go to the gym." seriously.

i suppose i should try this pictures thing. what should i post pictures of??

i know i haven't commented much lately on world affairs. i mean to at the time, but then i don't, and then time passes and it's no longer a relevant topic, or i'm no longer upset or jubilant or angry or feeling whatever i was feeling about the issue. i will say, though, that i'm ecstatic about how many people in iraq turned out to vote. and i hope the new iraqi government succeeds in spite of my feelings about w. i hate the idea that he could be right, but at the same time, how awful of me would it be for me to say, "oh, these people don't care about voting, they care about not dying," just because i think that people have to conform to the maslow hierarchy of needs or something? as though people who look/think/dress/act like me have a monopoly on fighting for freedom, even over death. as though there were only one patrick henry.

ok, i'm getting distracted by cats and hunter s. thompson, so it's time to go. that, and i haven't eaten today.