December 29, 1999

^yesterday _tomorrow

almost no one came to work today, giving me the opportunity to both get work done as well as muck about unobserved:

• various and diverf nodes -- this is more seductive than i'd thought it would be originally... how much life do you show?
• meeting various and diverf noders -- a distinct pleasure
• letter to my sister
• a singleton, of all things
• coding cruft
• ocr cruft (we digitise scholarly serials, so a lot of ocr happens here... enough to make one go cross-eyed)
• an indeterminate number of bottles of coke

perhaps more mucking about than not...

I had a bit of a chat with some noders in the chatterbox on E2 about auto-linking nodes. idiotboy was of the idea that everything should take care of linking nodes together for him (perhaps he it is too hard for him to type []'s). knifegirl (unfairly I thought) berated him for suggesting something when he hadn't been part of everything for as long as her. pulp thought that perhaps it could only link low link-count nodes. I for one hate nodes that have every word linked, and stated so.

i got new shoes today, if that matters.

I am in Chicago right now, staying at a friend's place. Christmas was interesting, I left that evening for chitown. It really didn't feel like Christmas at all this year, and it hasn't sunk in that 1999 is almost over. I don't remember it even starting.

Social obligations sucks by the way, and so do boys who send fucked up signals. Awesome friends rule, and so do my rockstar pants.

I am so weird lately.. boy stuff is odd.. I am sick of dating, and sick of being single.. but even more so of dating.. so single is good.. i think