I'm not buying it either but I'll try selling it anyway

Oh, hello there, blog-type thing. I haven't really written anything in, like, 3 months. But if it makes you feel any better, my "daily" journal entries also have been lacking since I left dear Lisa's side in early June. I know, I'm useless. But some of you get phone calls from me so there's that. Anyway, I wanted to say hello. And I just realized it's 4am, so. Um...quick notes!

Today I watched bits of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Clare and MJ and Ruth, then called Allie and talked to her for roughly an hour and a half, then watched the end of O, Brother Where Art Thou? which, incidentally, rocked. Then I went to work, where nothing happened except ever table but the cute French girls did something to bother me and there were only like 8 tables so I talked to the other staff a lot. I stole Susanmarie's onion rings and told her about how the very first X-File that scared me was Folie a Deux (look it up), notably that part where Mulder's in the psychiatric hospital (where, let's face it, he belongs most of the time) and he's all belted to the bed and the light throws a shadow of branches onto his window and then the branches move and THEY ARE THE SCARY GIANT BUG CREATURE! and this is important because I realized the other night that the streetlight outside my window casts a simliar branches-and-plants shadow on my wall and it scares me a little every night. Then I went home and Clare was having a dinner party and I revealed to all that I am kind of neurotic at times and Team North America lost at Cranium because, I'm sorry, ROBBIE WILLIAMS WASN'T FAMOUS THERE.

Yesterday I went to work at 10am and on the way a Hobbiton Movie Tours bus passed me and I wanted to hug everyone. Then work was insane, which is maybe how the weekend mornings are, but I usually spend those in bed, so. Then they let me go and I had a delicious coffee and read for a bit (Ali Smith's Hotel World because apparently she and Jeanette Winterson are friends so I feel I should like her more than I did when I didn't finish The Accidental 2 years ago) and then I called my little parents who are delightful. Then it was pouring, so I stopped by MJ's work to apologize for that time I texted her and told her to meet me at a cafe then was talking to said parents and wandered away. Then I wandered for some more and resigned myself to going back to work early because I had nothing else to do in town and when I got there, Andie AND Lyndsey were there and they were delightful up until they left. Then I worked for a while longer, and I had some enjoyable customers and a few regulars came in and ordered a Dixie platter, which we fully do not have on the menu anymore so the kitchen kind of made it up and they let me eat their whole ramekin of olives and it was a highlight. Then I came home and collapsed on the couch before MJ and Ruth came home and put on Bridget Jones's Diary. We're so very exciting.

Anyway, I just remembered that I'm meant to do things tomorrow and can't really sleep until 1pm then, can I? It's 4am, as I said. I wanted to let you know I'm alive and I think that's accomplished that. It's time where when we plan parties, when I'm leaving must be taken into account. I'm not entirely certain how I'm going to leave when the time comes. Also, I got bitten by New Zealand's one poisonous thing (it's the white-tailed spider. Look it up) so I'm worrying that a month's jaunt over to Australia, the poison capital of the world, might be the stupidest idea I ever did come up with. Obviously I should go to South Africa instead.

I love you all!