october 20, 2000

best thing:
sewing/mending/patching things i had been meaning to get to for a long time
doing laundry
traditional pumpkin pie at frisch's

worst thing:
unnecessarily warm weather
packing

***

october 19, 2000

best thing:
visiting half-price books and music (where i bought books, and music... which i didn't really need...)
getting a portable cd player
barnes and noble (where eileen finally used her gift card)
a stop at con and lucy's
back to mom's house

worst thing:
persisting in this unfortunate money-spending

***

october 18, 2000

best thing:
more thrifting, this time in dayton
stuffed baked potatoes for dinner (these are fun. interactive food.)
movies

worst thing:
continuing to spend money i really oughtn't

***

october 17, 2000

best thing:
going to the parrot with con, such as it was
to savory flames, restaurant of much meat, for dinner (they made me something veggie and good on request, though)

worst thing:
feeling tolerance for home decreasing
greasy grilled cheese
shutting my ankle in the car door
eating dinner surround by stuffed dead animal heads

***

october 16, 2000

best thing:
thrifting and lunch at coffee please and jungle jim's with eileen and mutti and lynn
making dinner (and grandma even said she liked it!)
off to dad's house
ice cream
checking e-mail, finally
mocking another bad movie

worst thing:
staying up too late
how very far away my brother seems

***

october 15, 2000

best thing:
church, home church!
going to see chicken run at the mall of evil with eileen
willpower (not buying gauzy white sweater)
out to dinner at grande finale
lemon mousse pie from the church craft sale (kristine made it... has to be good... mmmmm...)

worst thing:
dead mall
elder-beerman! ack! but no one saw me...
whichever cat it was that chose to make use of my luggage as a litterbox

***

october 14, 2000

best thing:
home again home again
watching the man in the iron mask, and mocking it
attempting to bake the random thing my mother left, with no recipe
picnic
cfg meeting at michaele and roger's house, with their new kitten

worst thing:
bus
lack of sleep
learning that my genes are conspiring against me (maternal great-grandmother and grandmother were/are diabetic; paternal grandfather and father were/are diabetic)

***

october 13, 2000

best thing:
everything finished!
sunshine, laying in it after lunch

worst thing:
increasing distaste for sharples food
everyone leaving, *sniff*
the bus

***

october 12, 2000

best thing:
no classes
wearing what were possibly the world's smallest pigtails
exploiting a study break for food

worst thing:
pop-up ads appearing on crosswinds
missing dance and knitwits to work on my philosophy paper

***

october 11, 2000

best thing:
being given animal crackers by a very small girl wearing pink shoes

worst thing:
sharples food, and my complete lack of interest in it

***

october 10, 2000

best thing:
learning that i have no classes on thursday and no history midterm
scottish dance
visiting at willets with amelia and megan jo
discovering that perhaps i was wrong all along

worst thing:
too much food again
not working at all, but it was okay

***

october 9, 2000

best thing:
atrocious purple sweater
no philosophy class
hot chocolate and ice cream
eileen deciding to come home with me for break
painting nails
amusing garnet patrollers

worst thing:
oversleeping
tease cat that wouldn't quite let hollis and me pet it
too much lunch

***

october 8, 2000

best thing:
church
happy weather --> bounciness
phone call from mutti
IMing sarah

worst thing:
papering
realizing my absentee ballot request has to be in by tomorrow

***

october 7, 2000

best thing:
apparently winning $60 from alladvantage
going to fuji mountain with dea and ben and mike and eating sushi and festively-presented noodles
buying unnecessary cds and a book at border's
briefly stopping in at the body paint party
random good food on the shuttle

worst thing:
poor sick jesse
not going to the party properly painted, i wish i would have known

***

october 6, 2000

best thing:
trip into philadelphia with jesse (greek food, fun stores)
willpower in a thrift store
grapevine concert
being a spectator at the pterodactyl hunt

worst thing:
nosebleed (the icky kind, too)
train stupidity
tarble food

***

october 5, 2000

best thing:
ink in printer
more mp3s
knitwits (despite my incredible inadequacy)
suddenly developing a good attitude
85 points left on my meal card.
english dance

worst thing:
unpainting nails
discovering bits of someone else's skin on the floor in mccabe

***

october 4, 2000

best thing:
super-vitamin c fresh samantha
long lunch, a habit which i've sadly fallen out of
nap
vegan apple crisp
thunderstorm
going on an OtR kick

worst thing:
parrish desk
scary lightning

***

october 3, 2000

best thing:
being conscientious and going to class anyway
scottish dance
downloading mp3s

worst thing:
still sick
not working on papers

***

october 2, 2000

best thing:
sunny outside lunch
laundry
veggie day in sharples!
blue nails
crosswording with dave
swil movie

worst thing:
sore throat
boring parrish desk
carnivorous assholes (lol... no, no, no... i meant rude people... you're so literal.)

***

october 1, 2000

best thing:
church
oatmeal
finally getting my sccs password
ordering bus tickets

worst thing:
multiple dead squirrels
spilling communion wine down the front of my shirt
not chocolate: hollis and i possessed many things that were not chocolate
religion paper