outer-jessie's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- listless no longer Did you know that Steven Seagal is a vessel of Buddhist spirituality? Does that shatter your world view? Allow me to clarify yesterday's entry. I had read a lot of depressing entries by young kids (teenagers mostly) without a clue. A lot of the diary writers do satisfy those criteria. They are me from five years ago and it's very hard to look that in the face dispassionately. I swear I've been over this already, and if you still don't get it, too bad for you. Now it's list time! Things you must never do: 1) have your hair cut into a mullet. It looks good on no one. Especially not you. 2) attempt to have a philosophical conversation with someone who is sleeping 3) put more cheezits in your lunch than is good for you, because you know you have no self-restraint and you will end up eating them all 4) forget why you love someone 5) hold your own problems against other people More reasons why my professor is awesome: 1) he is a thorough eraser. If you've ever had a professor who's into shoddy erasing, you know the agony 2) when I informed him that yesterday's date was a palindrome, he informed me that if you replaced the middle 1 with a hyphen, you'd have the ASCII representation of some Star Wars vehicle 3) he advised us to appreciate the Star Wars geeks, who are the same people who made it so we can now download porno ten times faster than in '92 4) he wears the same ensemble every day, possibly to tone down the shock one feels upon finding oneself in linear algebra class 5) he's willing to end up sprawled on the floor if it means we'll come to understand that matrix multiplication is not commutative 6) he says things like "so the average 2X2 matrix walking down the street..." Things I want to do with Rob before we run out of time: 1) sail across the ocean 2) spend a year in Tibet 3) see whales off the coast of Alaska 4) learn a foreign language from scratch just by being surrounded by it 5) swim with dolphins 6) see the sunrise in every time zone 7) see monkeys in their natural habitats 8) spend the day at Machu Picchu on the summer solstice 9) get lost in the woods 10) lead a group of children to the joy of scientific curiosity 11) spend a summer eating only what we can grow on our own land 12) plant a tree 13) make a snow fort 14) save something's life 15) be part of a tight-knit group 16) drive across America on Rt.66 17) create a new Christmas tradition 18) become experts at something 19) research our families and visit the towns in Europe where they lived 20) make a photo album And now, a brief Cheesejoe interlude for the girl in the taxi. Cheesejoe was wearing a monacle and tights and a mortarboard and a cape. His eyes glowed, his cape flowed; he thrust out his chest, upon which was emblazoned "Bran for Regularity." He leapt through the air, did a double roll, and landed in a split in front of the bookcase, from which he pulled "War and Peace" and began to read. Suddenly something caught his eye: a centipede. "Never fear! I shall save you, Reggie!" he cried, and squashed the bug with his fist. Then he solemnly cleared his throat, and spake thus unto the centipede: "From dust we come, and to dust we must return." "What's the matter with you, Cheesejoe?" queried a befuddled Reggie. Cheesejoe blinked. Quoth he: "Well, I'm someone's hero. Seriously. I'm just trying to act the part." 12:18 p.m. - 2001-10-02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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