(ORIGINALLY WRITTEN DEC. 31STTT)

ha ha to december 31st. you are the best time for directionless thought thinking times apparently, because you are the day that lazercatz become glog cats again.

it has been fun watching tetris, a real cat, come to terms with the amount of sleeping we expect her to do. it is a little bit of a sad time for me to think of the life she might have dreamed of having – galloping through meadows at twilight or something, fighting evil – but that is not real. i do not know for certain, but i gather she is pretty happy with food and climbing on the couch, watching the fish (that i need to feed, for real), and working on her friendship with scully. the two have made a significant amount of peace since mulder’s death, and that works for me because pets exist to make me happy.

rain city has started to grate on me. it might just be because i haven’t been paid and it is a week past the end of the pay period (CONFIDENTIAL TO CHER: I HAVE ONE DOLLAR DO YOU BELIEVE ME) but also i am just tired of being here. i suspect it is because i am more boring now than i was when i started. it is true guys: i am more boring now. i don’t keep up on Topics of Interest and all i think about is drawing and programming, which are not Fun to Talk About. some of my claims are being tiny spurious right now because i do read books and watch movies, but whatevers.

—EDIT: I TOOK A BREAK OF A FEW DAYS WHILE WRITING THIS—

it was nice to see ray talk about how good rain city can be on chelsea’s facebook. there are two things that are nice about this:

1. it is true that the holidays are not a good time to feel good about the video store.

2. i like watching other people’s lives.

also, max is in town and i will see him tonight, so i need to get out of the groan zone. it’s a good day for it. the air smells like WASHINGTON STATE, meaning it smells like back-to-school, and also moving-away-from-Kansas, and i suppose also like car exhaust mixed with lots of rain. MY FAVORITE SMELL.

a list of things that i am excited about:

- i have a gajillion new books to read. underground AS WELL AS south of the border, west of the sun (murakami), i am a cat (some japanese dude; google is at least four tabs away), swann’s way, lots of things.

- new super mario bros.

- almost up-to-date on ufrecords orders.

- exterior of apartment is a Sad Vacation. interior of apartment, however, is an Exuberant Beginning.

- rice cooker and All That It Entails.

originally, i typed “all that it entrails”, which is gross. tiffany and i got our Fancy Camera back! so i’ll be posting some pictures in a day or so. maybe tonight. LIFE IS PROGRESSING ACCORDINGLY.