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Archive for January 2000

the worm inside you

On 7 January 2000

We have a houseguest right now, some guy LT knows in an academic-colleague sort of way who flew in for a history conference and needed a place to crash. As houseguests go, he hasn't been too intrusive. Although I mildly resent not being allowed to eat breakfast naked. (Well, I guess I'm ALLOWED, technically, but […]

that does not compute

On 5 January 2000

Out this window, at least this winter, it is perpetually around 4:30 pm…it's that gray and dingy and soul-wearying. There's not even anyone smoking in a dirty undershirt on the fire escape of the transient hotel, which is my main landscape feature on workdays. Damn.Of course I should be working, but the gray winter 4:30 […]

new year's wrapup

On 4 January 2000

Happy new year, everyone! And I do mean everyone. I'm a little disappointed, it's the future (21st century!) and all and I still don't have a jet pack or food that comes in little pills. On the bright side, neither did the computers try to kill us nor the flesh-eating zombies come to eat our […]