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My To-Read list (physical words)
slightly more organized form.
I also have quite a collection of digital words to read, but for some reason I find myself refreshing eoff, ghf, livejournal, and the gathering in vain, hoping to find some words to reply to. You'd think I preferred to spend my time posting things instead of reading what others have posted.
The fourth went off marvelously last night.
Excuse me while I have a tangential exploration and rumination on the fact that I am perfectly at liberty to discuss IRL extensively in this journal for any of several reasons, some being that IRL friends have forgotten there's internet past facebook, that I don't use identifying last names, but most importantly, *my* name is almost no-where to be found in this journal, and the internet pen name is just about gone from the internet. No wonder people I've added from eoff go 'wtf?'. I hadn't really thought about it before now, having identified with this livejournal for so long.
I think I'll let it be. The blanket of anonymity is useful sometimes, and it's easy enough to inform anyone who is looking. Some people have to go through hoops to obtain this, but accidentally, I have come up with a system more or less born to it.
Anyways, I had a good fourth of july last night. Megan came up and helped me set up chairs and make some orange sherbet. There was a whole bunch of people there. Mom, dad and i obviously, megan, my granny sue and grandpa floyd, uncle eric and vaulch. Cory was there for a bit before running off to run some arcane errand, and he came back with his former girlfriend and possibly regirlfriend Karen. Then my uncle keith called and he, tina and zach all showed up. I like it chaotic like this.
I showed off my france pictures, explained the story of the pigman when he appeared, saw pictures of zach in his baseball uniform (they won first place in the tournament this year), dad grilled hamburgers and hotdogs on our grill that no one had used in uh, a loooooooooooong time (8 years at least?), mom and granny sue whipped up some more homemade icecream (vanilla) that I didn't like quite as well as my orange~~~~
once it got dark, dad and keith went to town on the fireworks. I deigned to sit back and snap pictures through my d-40 that I so love. There was also a beautifully delicate baby crescent moon hanging low in the western sky that I went down to the cattle guard to capture (badly).
Got quite a few neat pictures, then when we came back in, ate watermelon and most everyone left, megan and I played with it and I showed her the basics of how to use the focus and change the shutter speed. Then we played on the piano some and I sent her home with my sheet music to Aerith's Theme.
After she left, my parents went to bed pretty quick, but I stayed up until 2 finishing Support Your Local Wizard. The ending didn't grip me quite as much as the previous times I'd read it, but I attribute that to the natural jadedness 5 years brings (or has it been longer?), not to mention having taken a benadryl in preparation for bed.
Oh yeah, since Tuesday, I have been dogged by this persistant sneezing/runny nose that I thought was allergies, but now believe to be a summer cold because nothing allergy-related has helped it one bit (bath, nasal spray, dad's peroxide spray, four days of claritin, benadryl etc). Of course the cold medicine hasn't helped it any, but whatever.
(also the tell tale sign as far as I'm concerned, no itchy eyes). I don't recommend catching it, whatever it is. I only slept 13 hours tuesday night.
