Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Guilty confession: part of why I've actually been blogging tonight (rather than reading, video gaming, etc) is that I thought this would keep me awake for the half hour or so I needed to push over the hump...I get exhausted every night at sometime between 9 and 12. It's transient - tonight it hit at about 10:15. I started yawning. Big yawns. I knew I was going to pass out...and it's not like I even have a good sit-in-this-chair-to-stay-awake chair, just the bed and the ridiculously cozy reclining sofa and loveseat. I tried a couple things to wake me up, and they didn't take. So I fell to my last resort, dear reader - you. I hope I haven't made you feel cheap, and I PROMISE to call in the morning. Cross my heart. Oh, and I'll be back around 3:30 with a three sentence review of the Two Towers. I'm pretty much expecting it to be along the lines of "Rohan are cool. Helms Deep is very cool. I am very very tired and must die now." We'll see.

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Woohoo! Larry didn't get the team in Charlotte! Come back to Boston, Larry! Run the team you were MEANT to run!
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I've finished most of my Xmas shopping - did about 60% of it in one fell swoop Sunday night. Thank GOD for Amazon. But I'm left with one dilemma: what do I get the girl I'm dating? Here's the thing: I've been dating her for a month and a half or so...and yes, avid readers, this is the same girl I first mentioned back at the beginning of November. Well, it seems to be working. Quite well, actually. We see each other once or twice a week - we're both reasonably busy, and she's living with her grandmother (which leads to all kinds of comedy, but we don't need to get into that now, do we?), email every day...I mean, it's definitely working. And it's exactly what I want it to be, exactly as serious as I want right now, especially considering I wasn't actually sure I wanted to be dating in the first place. Yeah. Now I'm sure. I know what she likes, I bet I could figure out a pretty decent present with relative ease. That's not my problem. I'm far more concerned about magnitude: what do you get a girl you're awfully fond of, but not officially in a boyfriend/girlfriend kind of relationship? I'm not talking jewelry or anything like that...but flowers? Are those ok? Alright, that's almost certainly stupid - of COURSE, flowers are ok. Right? I just don't know these things. Flowers and a book? Argh, I feel like a moron. Shouldn't I just *know* what's appropriate? Why is it that I have to think about it? That last sentiment is one I get a lot of, though. I don't seem to have been born with an intuitive ability to know what I'm supposed to do in terms of first moves, ice-breaking, increasing the seriousnes level, etc...I'm fine once we hit a new plateau, but I just have no clue how to get over that hump. I've theorized that I'm a coward - I'm so afraid of making an inappropriate or unwanted move that I just wait patiently for someone else to let me know where we are. How can I stop acting like this and start freakin' acting like a human being with a spine? ...did I mention that she's great? I've been asked not to call her by name here - she's been known to read the blog, and has no problem with being mentioned anonymously. So I need to come up with some kind of code name for her. Which is really kind of silly, and I probably should stop talking now. =)

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Jury Finds ElcomSoft Not Guilty.. Wired News: Jury Finds ElcomSoft Not Guilty. [Hack the Planet] Screw you, DMCA!
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All LUG, No Nuts? The Lesbian Fad. Plastic::Etcetera::Queer: "In the guise of open-mindedness and having new experiences, a growing number of heterosexual college women are experiementing sexually with each other. " [Plastic: Most Recent] Uh, this is news to people? Only to anyone who hasn't recently been at a liberal college...
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What Every NBA GM Wants For Christmas. Plastic::Media::Sports: "For those of you who don't know, LeBron James is a senior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and virtually guaranteed to be the No. 1 pick in this year's NBA draft." [Plastic: Most Recent] ...and if you honestly expect him to end up anywhere but New York, you're dreaming.
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Senator Blanche K. Bruce. Senator Blanche K. Bruce was the first black person to serve a full term in the United States Senate (representing Mississippi from 1875 to 1881), and the first person born into slavery to preside over the Senate. The Senate Commission on Art recently unveiled a newly-acquired portrait of this determined leader. [MetaFilter] ...and, might I add, an Oberlin College alum. We're everywhere.

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Forgive me, forgive me, for I have been slacking off. I haven't even been busy, per se, the last couple days - I mean, I've been too busy at work to write anything when I'm there, but that shouldn't stop me from writing when I'm at home, right? No, I just haven't been in the mood. I'm hoping it's just a passing thing - I'm going to try to kickstart my blogging again with a romp through the wonderful land of the news aggregator, but I've only got maybe forty minutes...I'm giving in to my geek-side and going to a 12:05 showing of The Two Towers tonight. Which my mom mistakenly referred to as The Twin Towers, caught herself, and felt truly horrible. It was funny, in a bad way. =)

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