A customer of mine just made my week.

Hello [boyname],

I have been wanting to say something to you for days now and never get to.

I hope you don’t mind if I say that I saw you at the park a few days ago with some friends and I thought you looked beautiful. Blessings. May you burst into flowers.

[customer]

That’s even better than it was, listening to Ani and sending bills.

I got my sister hooked too.

apollotiger on internet dating as portrayed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Oh, I had that happen once, except without the demon!”

One hell of a good show.

I’m going to Quo Vadis! I finally put in the application, not a day too late.

Note to self: you get drunker with each drink you drink, not each drink you buy.

There are some unabashed Joss Whedon fans in my friendslist. You know who you are, anandabrat and jazkharma and whetherwoman and spxoon. And just so you know, I hate you. Because I am now addicted to Buffy. After one episode. One episode from the supposedly mediocre first season.

P. S. Willow is really cute.

P.P. S. I also have the unreleased pilot episode if anyone wants it.

Getting up early today was so worth it: I got a ride in a hot air balloon.

I am listening to the Firefly soundtrack as I finish my work, and I am so going to go get myself addicted to this show.

If someone doesn’t have kids, what’s the best way to care for the future and to make sure society grows for the better?

Today in the mail I receive a CD from a friend, with some rather unusual cover art, a book about the advertising industry, and a postcard advertisment reading “How CEO’s of Web Hosting Companies Can Increase Profits Now…”

Something about the juxtaposition of a mix of music by a truly rebellious artist, from a rebellious, anarchist friend, a slightly academic book about culture, advertising and rebellion as an image, and an ad that’s not interesting nor gramatical is kind of fun.

What are things that parents do to make the world better by making sure their children have?

anandabrat: “If she wasn’t so scary, and her butt wasn’t so weird, I’d buy her.”

I’ve been thinking about how I think about things since the little episode in the bar and I’m getting happier that it happened: It sucks that homophobia manifests at all, and especially as threats, assault and abuse. This week, though, I’ve made several new friends, strengthened several other friendships, and I’m thinking about how to approach the man who was so nasty in the future and find out what the fuck his problem is, and see if I can’t get it to go away, if not in general, at least evade it in my case.

It shocked me to see how many people wanted to fix the situation with violence. It never occurred to me that that was even an option to consider. I don’t feel like this town suddenly got dangerous for me. If anything, it just made me more sure of my allies and that all things are solvable.

anandabrat is in town! She brought spxoon and it’s awesome. We ate nachos. I’m excited. I also just realized how much I fall back on old patterns when I’m around people I’ve known a while. It feels good to be me though.

I saw Caché this afternoon. It’s really good. Also the first movie in a while to catch me by surprise at an event in it. The subtitles were occasionally annoyingly white on white, and I realize that I don’t speak french more than I don’t speak most other languages.