Amanda Senn wants to play "high school scavenger hunt" over winter break. I'm in, even though it requires bar hopping in Rapids. I'll be the driver. That's fine. Here's how the game works (approximately - I can't remember the exact point totals she gave me):

25 points for each high school classmate you talk to
50 points if the person has grown a mullet since high school
100 points if the person appears to have gained 50 pounds or more
150 points if the person has a spouse
200 points if the person has a baby
250 points if the person brought the baby to the bar

I wonder if there's a combination system. What if the person has a mullet and a baby? If there are two babies and one is at the bar, is it 450 points? Hmm. I'll have to ask.

I'm going to lose, but that's OK. I'm excited anyway. I can't wait to see wastered Amanda Senn talking to hicks with mullets. (Hey...what if the BABIES have mullets?)

I actually just read some comments from sig and erica on my LJ and wasn't sure they would see my response. To bring everyone up to speed, I was pissy because I got rejected by a boy probably because I didn't live up to his physical expectations (and he's probably gay), cried about it to my counselor, then went to work and saw a guy with a shirt proclaiming that he liked skinny chicks or something. Here we go:

Erica: It was an undergrad, one of the mincing ones that flood the gov docs center and talk about inane crap all the time, I wouldn't want him even without the shirt. Honestly, I think there enough airheaded skinny bitches out there that won't care that he is a selfish asshole, these are the kind of women that agree to have vaginal reconstructive surgery because their husbands complain of less sexual satisfaction after their wives give birth (remember). He'll get laid, he'll get married and be an asshole all his life, maybe someday reality will kick him in the balls. It would be nice if reality's name began with an Urs and ended with an ula Arnold. Anyway, I know I'm way too smart for that kind of crap, it doesn't mean that I still don't find myself stepping in it from time to time. And with the way I am, I probably step in it more than most women that put themselves out there.

Sig: I do feel confident. Sometimes it gets to me that I seem to have to initiate everything, but then I think about the fact that I don't always have to initiate things. But I've always been confident, I just didn't know how to put myself out there. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm TOO confident sometimes, and I realize that I was going after the wrong guys for some reason.

But don't worry about me getting guys - my roommate Dave comments on all my "gentleman callers," not being able to kiss until Feb feels like an eternity, and after a three year hiatus, I managed to make out with 11 boys in three months, which is why I have mono.

Wow, Alec reads this blog now. I thought you didn't read blogs, Alexander Banning Sonsteby :P I wonder if any of the other Null Set boys read this blog?

I have mono, it sucks

In other news, I think the boy that I really like (James) also likes me - and apparently, he is a pretty hot commodity in our mostly female school, so.... ::I win!::

Don't they look happy? Why can't Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham just love each other? I supopse there are a million reasons: Lindsey was a controlling freak who treated Stevie like shit. Stevie fucked around with Mick Fleetwood and a million other rock-n-roll men (among them Don Henley and Tom Petty). Lindsey's married now and has a couple of kids. Stevie and Lindsey didn't talk to one another for over a decade - he even publicly declared how much he hated her.

But now they're friends again. I swear, there's has to be something going on with those two. All but four or five of the eighteen tracks on "Say You Will,"Fleetwood Mac's newest album, are about relationships that sound suspiciously like the legendary Stevie-Lindsey love affair. (Check out the song lyrics.) On the VH1 Destiny Rules special, Lindsey mentioned that it can be really hard to sing the songs Stevie wrote about him, and Stevie said that she's still writing about Lindsey 25 years after the big breakup. Right. And there's nothing between them.

A sample of the lyrics:

He fell for her again, she watched it happen
Every day, day by day
But more important, night by night
She watched it all come into play
He held her hands, she listened to what he had to say
Thrown down like a barricade
Maybe now he could prove to her
That he could be good for her
And they should be together

Stevie says that she wrote that song about Lindsey right after the Dance tour, the big reunion that came decades after Lindsey left the band. Anyway. That's the song Lindsey was referring to when he said it's hard to sing about himself. I wonder what went on in their hotel rooms after the shows? Gee, how convenient that he wasn't married yet. And here's a sampling of Lindsey's lyrics:

I let you slip away
There was nothing I could do
That was so long ago
Still I often think of you
I fall down, I get up
And I've always had to fight
Everything that was wrong
For the things that were right
Now I finally found my way
Now I know just what to do
Once you said goodbye to me
Now I say goodbye to you

(And, is it a coincidence that the track immediately following this one is called "Goodbye Baby" and is written by Stevie?)

I'm not quite sure why I care whether or not those two are involved; I don't know why I give it thought every now and again. I guess Stevie and Lindsey are just one of those legendary couples. It's like...if there's something between them, even if it's not public or even official, then maybe there's hope for the rest of the world. And not just romantic hope - I mean hope in general. If something as irreconcilable as Lindsey and Stevie can survive in some small way, then maybe we, with our ordinary failures and shortcomings, can survive too. Not that a love affair could actually impact reality - but it could impact a person's perception of reality. Bringing hope, in other words.

Maybe I've been in Alaska for too long. I think all this darkness is starting to get to me.



Strangest line from the album? "Think of me, sweet darling, every time you don't come." -Lindsey

I had a very weird dream last night. Here's the synopsis:

For some reason, I was with Lauren's family in a hotel at Disney Land. It was a huge suite with two bedrooms. One bedroom had two queen-sized beds, and the other room had a king-size bed. Lauren's parents made me, Eric, and Lauren sleep in one of the queen beds, and they slept in the other. For some reason, they insisted that all five of us sleep in the same bedroom. Maybe they were worried that I'd rape their children; after all - I do have the right genitals for BOTH of them. :) Eric, Lauren, and I were all squished into one bed. I was in the middle, and Eric - who somehow managed to fall asleep even though it was very uncomfortable - elbowed me every time he rolled over, which was often. And Lauren, who was still awake, kicked me just because she was bored. I kicked her back, and we ended up having a fight. (The fun kind, not the kind where we tried to kill each other.) One of us accidentially kicked Eric, so he woke up and also started fighting. We got kind of loud, which woke the parents. Lauren's mom was so mad about us waking her up that she threatened not to take us to Disney Land the next day. Eric proposed that she let us go in the other room, because then we wouldn't wake anybody up, but she wouldn't let us. So, we all behaved and went to sleep because we wanted to go on the rides at Disney.

Weird, huh? I don't even want to know where that came from.



In my dream, Eric still had his army hair. Lauren, does Eric still have army hair?

Which internet subculture do I belong to? [CLICK] You are a Trekkie! It's a geek, Jim! You probably have a starfleet uniform and a tricorder. Bonus points if you speak klingon. One day you will walk down the aisle with your buttertroll trekkie partner, humming to the Yoyager theme. More Quizzes at Go-Quiz.com

I think this is fairly accurate ;)

Not so accurate, not so fun. Why do we do these things?

How to make a Sig!

Ingredients: 3 parts mercy 1 part courage 3 parts ego

Method: Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of sadness

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Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Which File Extension are You?

A former friend took this quiz and her result was .gif, "you are sometimes animated, but mostly you sit there and look pretty." From what I know about her, its TOTALLY accurate, but then again, she is a former friend.

I am guessing acrobat means social acrobat, which is accurate, I fit in with anyone from preps to goths, yet it says that I look the same where ever I go, which is weird. Its a fun quiz and there are a lot of results.