Thursday, October 31, 2002
HKS5324: SHMAPPY SHMALLOWEENY!!!!
StepheeJoy: hey! my computer was frozen because AIM was not responding then you sent a message and unfroze it!
StepheeJoy: that was cool
HKS5324: i rule!
StepheeJoy: i've never seen that happen before
StepheeJoy: ok, i'm going to try to open a new program so if i suddenly start ignoring you it's because i'm in server-problem hell. maybe you can unfreeze me again. hahaha
HKS5324: i'll do my best :-)
StepheeJoy: wow, i think you may have actually made my individual computer immune to the campus-wide server problem... neato
HKS5324: it's a gift and a curse
StepheeJoy: are you being a Nick Burns, your company's computer guy for halloween?
HKS5324: haha yes
HKS5324: what can i say, i'm a method halloween-er
Monday, October 28, 2002
how about those anaheim angels, eh?
myles got his world series last year; looks like this was my year!
Thursday, October 24, 2002
"i can sell anybody anything."
oh, and i can... but that just makes me part of the problem. doesn't it.
i've always been turned off by activism. i don't really know why. and i've never been big on current events, and especially not foreign affairs. i don't have a very clear understanding of where montana is; i can hardly be expected to understand the middle east... or can i? anyway, i think i can count on one FINGER the strong opinions i've held consistently in my life. maybe i just needed time to get myself in order before i could solve all the world's problems. even still, it's my firm belief we need to get our own country in order, before we deal with everyone else... but that is so beside the point... or is it?
ever the loyal patriot (american team spirit, yay!), i have suddenly found myself disgusted by our entire culture. i haven't learned anything i didn't know before, it just caught up with me i think.
did you know that in 1987 there were more shopping malls in the united states than high schools? consumerism may actually be the root of all evil. and for all the damage it does, what do we get out it? nothing. people are far more miserable now than they were 40 or 50 years ago and we have twice as much of everything! it's gross. really. the amount of waste, and stress, and turmoil, and general yuck this creates is unsettling... we buy and buy and buy... just to make ourselves MORE depressed. whose idea was this?
here are just a couple places to go so you can be equally disturbed and other places you can go to do something:
Affluenza: an informative, and not entirely encouraging documentary
All Consuming Passion: some statistics (we know you love statistics...)
Buy Nothing Day: it's just one day...
there are also tons and tons of guides to simple living on the internet. i think some are a bit far fetched and it is completely unrealistic to expect a whole society of materialistic stressballs to suddenly move out to the country and start up co-op gardens. but i do think we'd all be just fine with about half the "stuff" that holds us down.
i know you are dying to know where this is all coming from. it's an accumulation of things, which happened to bubble over this evening during my class. as most of you know, i'm a road-trippin fool. i would love to be able to pack everything i own in my vehicle and "light out for the territory" whenever i feel the urge. the fact that i know exactly how much "stuff" i have in terms of car-loads shows i'm serious... and i just have about 5 carloads too much of useless stuff i think.
it's just so appealing... wanting less stuff. then you need less money. you can work less. then you have more TIME. don't you all realize how important TIME is? THAT is the good stuff... the time with friends, and sitting by the river feeding ducks, and kicking the leaves, and playing in the rain, and seeing all 50 states, and falling in love, and writing a book, and illustrating it too... THAT's what i want to be when i grow up. can't i be THAT?
i can be that.
here are 2 more pre-new-year's-resolutions (the first, of course, being a trip to alaska):
disclaimer: i am not, nor have i ever been, nor do i ever hope to become a scary activist of any kind. sometimes things seem like a really good idea, but then the next day i just want to sleep a lot. i can not actually be held accountable for any goals i set, behavior i encourage, or opinions i may radically change at a whim. now go recycle something.
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
i just bought some fantastic new sharpie markers!
i use my black liquid sharpie all the time in my drawing class. i am one with the sharpie. i wanted some color though, and i knew you could find sharpies in your basic red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and brown... but they always show up so dark... and that just wasn't what i was going for. i wanted a PUNCH of color! i wanted bright-ass pink.
well, i didn't find bright-ass pink, but what i did find was sharpie's four NEW colors, berry, turquoise, aqua, and LIME! yippy!
my drawing teacher is going to freak...
Thursday, October 10, 2002
recent observation:
i must hold my ball point pens funny. nowadays most of them have little rubber grippy sections near the tip so you don't get as callussy. i hold my pens way to close to the tip for the padding to be effective. the pen usually rests on my middle finger just below where the rubber stops.
how sad. yet another reason why i don't fit in anyone's little boxes.
big big thank you to the ever-helpful, mike. (i'd link to his site, but alas it's quite dormant these days.)
anyway, thanks to him blogger still stinks, but i can update my template and my comments and permalinks are working a-ok. i've cleaned up a bit of the link rot around here, and added six month worth or archive links as well. next come links to the picture pages...
we'll save that for another night.
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
"cute boys are good for the soul"
-wysocki
Monday, October 07, 2002
man, i suck lately, don't i? i'm awfully sorry about that. you know if i had a computer i'd be up til 5 in the morning talking to you and posting all the randomness that is in my brain... but alas i don't have a computer... unless someone wants to donate one to rectify this situation. anyone?
anyhoo... i have made an observation. for as stressed as i kind of think i am, and as behind i know i am, normally i would be way more anxiety ridden. maybe therapy DOES help.... i just have noticed that despite the chaotic roller coaster that is my life these days... i have been more cheery than teary, and less likely to curl up in the fetal possition and die than i might have been inclined to do in the past.
maybe it's because i spend substantially less time procratinating in front of the computer? er...
k, i have a meeting to get to. because stephanie sweitzer doesn't get time off. ever. :)
Thursday, October 03, 2002
i've been super busy doing a whole lot of nothing lately. i've been working my tail off, falling behind in my classes, recruiting for the mouse, stressing about life in general and anxiously planning my return to sunny/generally yucky/but still magical....florida.
i'm too flustered at the moment to even have anything intelligent to tell you so i won't further waste your time.
ack!
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