Hi! I have been all busy and non-typey lately so I haven't updated. What a jerk I am! What's even worse is that just now I realized that today is the Andy Griffith marathon on the superstation, and I'm already having to fight the urge to not even add an entry right now. Well it'll be short anyway.
Christmas was good. I got nice gifts, but like always my favourites are the ones I bought myself, namely an iZone camera and a drum machine. Let me tell you, if you want fun, buy a drum machine. It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about drums or drum machines or music (god knows I don't!) or if you don't have any real use for one (again, I don't), it is the best toy any grown-up could ever get. A lot of grown-ups lke buying toys, and they buy star wars figures, stuff like that, you know, actual kids' toys, but that's just ignorant of them! A grown-up buying a Barbie or a Star Wars figure because they like toys is like a 10 year old buying a 2 year olds' toy! Grown ups should concentrate on the toys that will actually be fun, and those toys are drum machines. And Polaroid stuff too I guess. But yeah, drum machines, I likes. I sort of think a sampler might have been a better use of my money from a practical point of view, but I know my limits when it comes to figuring out strange mechanical devices.
I went to IKEA yesterday and bought a desk I don't really have an actual use for. It was so cheap though (50% off) and exactly the kind of desk I want, and it will actually be really handy I think once I just figure out somewhere to put it. I have spots where it would fit, but nowhere where it will fit perfectly, which is as good an excuse to not put it together yet as anything.
Y2K is coming, and I know a lot (side note: I just mistyped "lot" as "klit" somehow. Funny or just annoying for me to mention? Your choice.) of people think it's overhyped and all that but I am so looking forward to it. I hope all the computers totally break for like a year or more, and everyone just has to sit around wishing they had my awesome desk. Also I hope my drum machine is Y2K-compliant! If not I know that at least my bathtub full of soft, velcro-covered ping-pong balls is, and if there's one thing the past week has taught me, it's that a bathtub full of soft, velcro-covered ping-pong balls never ever gets boring.
Oh, I bought the Rushmore tape last week. I hadn't seen it and was going to just rent it, but buying it was only a few bucks more (in american funds it'd be $3.50 vs. $7.00) and I figured I'd like it. I didn't get to watch it until last night but it's really good. I thought I'd mention that since noone else has ever said anything good about that movie on the internet.
I thought I had a ton of other stuff to write, but I'm thinking maybe I should go get some breakfast and then spend the morning, afternoon and early evening in front of Andy and Barney, who, much like the afore-mentioned ping-pong balls, never get boring.
My favourite diary of today is Mary Chen!
08:48:03 - 1999-12-31