700

The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles sucks because they don’t have a separate motorcycle license anymore. I hate them. I don’t want a driver’s license.

Also, people who suck suck. So there.

699

I really must remember that I don’t have to follow any family patterns. It’s quite okay for me to live my life my way, and my parents to live their life their way, and for my sister to do her thing.

Apparently my queerness has been noticed about town, and I am the last to know, as I expected. C’est la vie. I suppose I need a T-shirt that says “Just ask the question” now.

698

I surprised a furry, black-and-white scavenger on my way into the back yard. I think I was about ten seconds from being skunked. Cute, though!

It’s hot and muggy. Southerners, tell me to shut up because I’ve never seen hot and muggy. It’s raining and 70. Sheesh.

And now, off to dinner with Carrie and Max. Too bad there were no vegetables at the market to bring along.

697

I hate phones. They just don’t work for me when I really, really, really need them to.

696

upna is back in town. I was a bit nervous about her coming, but she showed up at the park during the concert Sunday night, and I realized that it’s all okay.

I’ve missed her. There’s a reason we’re not together, for sure, but I really think we’ll be friends for a long time.

695

tsunobrat asks:

1\. What's your favorite color? (I like this one)
Storm-cloud grey. I love the intensity of what's supposed to be a placid color.
2\. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
At the moment, I'd love to hop through a few big cities — Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Boston, stopping long enoug in each to get a good idea of their flavour.
3\. What is your favorite spot in your home like?
That would be my front garden. It's a small patio with plants growing on three sides.
4\. What is your perfect world like?
Stable size, not ever expanding to destroy everything in its path, and diverse. More different kinds of people than you can imagine.
5\. Who do you not want to be?
I don't want to be the pasty computer geek with no social skills.

694

So fucking pissed I wasted my whole day and got nowhere.

693

I’m exhausted, but not feeling sick at all.

Sir Hiss is back from his incarceration. I was wondering where he went a couple days ago, talked to the humane society today, and found out he ended up in a skunk trap. He’s home again, thankfully.

692

I was looking at the photos on Redux Pictures and saw this one —

a bald kid

— and now I’m thinking of my cousin Brian and his family.

691

apollotiger has been asking for something like this.

690

You know you’re a geek when you dream about programming.

This isn’t arc, but in my dream, it was:

TAGS(<body><h2>$[calculations]</h2> $[RULE(<p>$[some stuff])])

I think I woke up counting the close-parentheses.

689

Listening to Apocalyptica always leaves me feeling a sort of emotional happy exhaustion, the way I feel physically after a long and wonderful hike.

I wish I could describe it better than that.

688

I don’t do this to fit in with a group.

I don’t do this to be a loner.

I don’t do this because I am uncomfortable with privilege.

I don’t do this because I am angry with my family.

I don’t do this because I have some notion that my life will be easier.

I don’t do this because I think it will make people like me more.

I let myself be myself because there is no other way for me to be.

687

Taopm is a synthesizer engine capable of producing some truly amazing sounds for a synth. Maybe some day string instruments will be able to be synthesized.

I’ve been listening to Godspeed You, Black Emperor, and Ethan and Eric want to get together and record stuff like that. I’m game.

686

Someone said “You’re a very good friend” to me today. I think that made my day.