2002-12-10 & 5:57 p.m. : there's more, but i have to go now.

i am surrounded by christmas decorations. i have agreed to let my cubemate decorate my side of the cube because there is this big "holiday" (read: christmas) decorating contest here at the workplace and i didn't want her to suffer merely because I AM A JEW. i mean, i wasn't going to do any decorating because, for one, hanukah's over. for two, a jew has a snowball's chance in hell of winning a holiday decorating contest judged by people who don't know anything about hanukah in the first place. i could put out a fern, a donut, a pair of wire cutters, and a drawing of dave chappelle playing sir smokes-a-lot in half baked, turn on buddhist chant music (with klezmer overtones, of course) and tell them a new story of hanukah that has to do with nepal, weed, electrical elephant donuts from outer space and the tools that cut them and they'll never be the wiser.

but i still wouldn't win that $15 gift certificate to the handi-mart for gas or whatever.

so i am letting georgette decorate all over the place tomorrow. i don't really mind that stuff anymore. i was really looking forward to decorating a tree with friends this christmas, but in lieu of that, i will have to settle for packing to GET THE HELL OUT OF IOWA, which suits me just fine.

so far, it hasn't really snowed here and i am really scared for when it does. i am afraid it will swallow up the whole world.

today on my break i talked to jason on the phone and it was really great to laugh like that. and also, it was great to talk to him to get rid of my fears of him backing out on me. apparently, i have some trust issues.

that's ok though, we talked about houses and sushi and kitties and shows and working out and restaurants and bartending and drinking and movers and walk-ups and hardwood floors and all that in just 12 minutes!

i know!!!!!!!

last night i went to sleep before midnight. for the last two nights, in fact, i have been going to sleep at a reasonable hour. and i woke up early enough to shower this morning.

i havent had a drink in days. correlation is not causation.