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September 25th, 2007

(no subject) @ 11:38 am

So why do I always start my entries and some emails with the word so? Doing things that way isn't even close to gramatically correct and it doesn't mak that much sense. Oh well, this is my journal, and when I post, I can write whatever, however, and whenever I want :).

I'm a bit less than a week from my trip to SLC and beyond, and I'm looking forward to it. I think I've figured out what is causing my elbow pain so much, and I think it's mostly due to the fact that my computer is so much higher than I am sitting. Since I'm freakin short, I have to have my chairs up pretty high, and this chair that I have here a work just isn't high enough. It's comfortable, but it tends to strain my arm, and by the end of the day, especially when I'm drawing on my huge Tablet, my arm's killin me.

I did in fact find a ride to the campout, and I really had a good time and met lots of people. Oh yeah, did I mention I stayed awake way too long, lost track of time and place while chating. I also drank too much root beer, and told too many blind jokes. Overall, it was a good time, and now I know more of the young people who live around here. I didn't get too much flack for being a Razorback fan, but it did slightly intensify with their loss to Kentucky. These are good people who live here in Rocky Top land, they're just deluded and confused, and their team's most popular song isn't even their fight song.

I've been working on a sulfur recovery plant simulation, and it's finally done. It was very simple in design, but extremely comlicated in it's layout, so it took me a while to figure out how I was going to plumb everything properly without (a) going crazy, crazier than I am and (b) connecting something so improperly that it might end the real world as we know it if built.

I'm fully moved into the new place, and though it's still not fully organized, I think it's better. I'm still having problems keeping Fiona under control there as she likes to eat the at food that's left out, and especially loves cat litter. I'm not sure how to keep her out of it except for getting some kind of shockin system, but it's definitely annoying because I have to watch her constantly. Just like a little kid, I have to worry when she's being very quiet. She knows she's not supposed to do that, but she'll do it until I catch her, and then she stays in one place for a while before she does it again.

I was talking with one of the guys I work with about issues I've continued having in understanding and being confused by women. This isn't a new problem, it happens with me, and has happened since the dawn of time, but we were talking about it for some reason, and he told me I had to read something. I thought it apt to post it here. So so true!

Let's say a guy named John is attracted to a woman named Amanda. He asks her out to a
after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else.

And then, one evening when they're driving home, a thought occurs to Amanda, and, without
really thinking, she says it aloud:


And then there is silence in the car. To Amanda, it seems like a very loud silence. She

And John is thinking: Gosh. Six months.

And Amanda is thinking: But, hey, I'm not so sure I want this kind of relationship,


And Amanda is thinking: he's upset. I can see it on his face. Maybe I'm reading this
his own feelings. He's afraid of being rejected.

And John is thinking: And I'm gonna have them look at the transmission again.  I don't

And Amanda is thinking: He's angry. And I don't blame him, I'd be angry, too. God, I feel

And John is thinking: They'll probably say it's only a 90-day warranty. That's exactly
what they're gonna say, the scumballs.

And Amanda is thinking: Maybe I'm just too idealistic, waiting for a knight to come

And John is thinking: Warranty? They want a warranty? I'll give them a darn warranty.

"John", Amanda says aloud.

"What?" says John, startled.

tears. "Maybe I should never have .. Oh God, I feel so..."(She breaks down, sobbing.)

"What?" says John.

"I'm such a fool," Amanda sobs. "I mean, I know there's no knight. I really know that.

"There's no horse?" says John.

"You think I'm a fool, don't you?" Amanda says.

"No!" says John, glad to finally know the correct answer.

"It's just that ... It's that I ... I need some time," Amanda says.

(There is a 15 second pause while John, thinking as fast as he can, tries to come up with

"Yes" he says.

(Amanda, deeply moved, touches his hand.)

"Oh John, do you really feel that way?" she says.

"What way?" says John.

"That way about time," says Amanda.

"Oh," says John. "Yes."

(Amanda turns to face him and gazes deeply into his eyes, causing him to become very

"Thank you, John", she says.

"Thank you," says John.

Then he takes her home, and she lies on her bed, a conflicted tortured soul, and weeps
until dawn, whereas when John gets back to his place, he opens a bag of Doritos, turns on
think about it. (This is also John's policy regarding world hunger.)

The next day Amanda will call her closest friend, or perhaps her sisters and her mother,
with it, either.

Meanwhile, John, while playing racquetball one day with a mutual friend of his and
Amanda's, will pause just before serving, frown, and say:

"Mike, did Amanda ever own a horse?"

That's all I can think of to write now. I don't have much planned tonight except for a hot shower, relaxation, and going to the store to get some things. More soon.
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Date:September 25th, 2007 05:31 pm (UTC)
Your little story about Amanda and John just about cracked me up... because it's mostly true.

Have you figured out who I am?
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Date:September 25th, 2007 07:07 pm (UTC)
I believe I do know who you are, because I only know one German LDS girl. I'm assuming there are not more than one :P. Cool you have a lj. Mine goes way back for reals.
Date:September 25th, 2007 08:12 pm (UTC)
I have changed names a couple of times, but my first journal started in the beginning of 2004... so I've been blogging for about 3 and a half years. :P I was webstergirl06 (webster girl 06... I'm not sure if you computer can read i when the words don't have spaces in them) for a while, then i got this stalker, so i changed to i_heart_newsies, and then the person found me again, so i changed to this name vita o amore, which mines "life or love" in Italian. So I kind of go way back. lol.

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