She's Actual Size: The Whiskey Diaries

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:41:54 GMT

Re: Today is the day.

I leave at 6:05pm on Luftansa 318. I've spent the past three days sleeping, shopping, and freaking out.

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:33:10 GMT

Re: Megan's question

Megan asked wht my plans are for posting while in transit. I'm glad she asked, because here's my plan:

I plan to keep posting as regularly as my schedule will allow. However, I can only post from this computer on this particular blog; I have a LiveJournal where I can post to from the road. The day before I take off, I'll post the url of that blog, which I will be updating (as regularly as my schedule will allow). As soon as I can, I'll post back to this blog again.

Simple, see? :) If you want to read what I'm up to, go to this blog, click on the link to my LiveJournal, and you can.

And if anyone can think of a better solution, I'm all ears.

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:07:42 GMT

I was told that my blog is moldering, so I've decided hiatus is over.

What's up with me: three more days in Berkeley, four days in Washington DC with mom and dad, then I'm in Dublin for a long, long time.

It's been a trying few weeks. My packing and moving was considerably slowed down by a nasty, nasty case of...I don't know for sure, since I don't have any medical insurance, and I never bothered to go to the doctor. I think it was bronchitis or something. That was three weeks ago, and it's just finally starting to go away. Anyhow, packing was like 40 minutes packing, 20 minutes napping...not a good situation.

However, I did manage to pack my stuff into every square inch of my ministorage space, and pack only about seven 18x18x18 double-corrugated 275 lb. test boxes for international shipping via the good ol' US Postal Service.

I'm on the verge of hysteria, but trying not to think about it.

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:22:05 GMT

Re: Hey look, it's 2:30 am!

Top Five Potential Names for Irish Punk Bands:

5. Skin McCool

4. Drugeda

3. St. Stephen's Spleen

2. Erin Go Brahless

And the top Potential Name for an Irish Punk Band:

1. St. James Hate

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:01:15 GMT

Re: Oboy...

Actual exchange the other night:

Guy: "What's the name of that guy who played the script guy in 'Boogie Nights'?"

Me: "Philip Seymore Hoffman"

Guy: "No no. He was the personal assistant in 'The Big Lebowski'."

Me: "That was Philip Seymore Hoffman."

Guy: "No! The guy who was the writer in that Mamet movie, 'State and Main'..."

Me: "Philip Seymore Hoffman!" <pause> "Jack Black"

Guy: "Yeah! That's the guy!"

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:14:46 GMT

Re: Because I thought Nicole and Wendy would find this funny

DIY: make slippers out of maxi pads!

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:38:29 GMT

Re: takes the edge off

48 hours until I vacate this apartment, but my anticipation of actually getting to Ireland is increasing.

Up until now, I've been less than enthusiastic about moving; I didn't want to build it up in my mind, then be disappointed. But recently, I got a whiff of what awaits across the Atlantic.

Some of those Irish guys are DAMN CUTE.

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:46:16 GMT

Hey all you cats and kittens:

New Cory Doctorow story on Salon:

Truncat

Read it now. That is all.