Salty Salty Sharky Joe

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So you know how sometimes, if you hit the window instead of the text box, and then you hit backspace, it takes you back a page? Well, that just happened to me. And I was 90% done with writing a very extensive look at my active week and Casino Night today. So I'm really rather depressed, since it was so good. And instead of thinking of Happy Thursday things to tell you, like poker and baby raccoons, I just feel like telling you about how Raines was cancelled. Which is also very depressing. Seriously, when I found out for sure, I got so angry I was really almost sick. And the instant analogy my mind found for me was, "cancelling Raines is like murdering a baby." Because it was so good and exactly what television needed, and all I wanted to do was watch more of it. It could have been a classic.

Deleting my entire letter is like when I'm playing Final Fantasy. I like to level up, so that I don't die, right? But sometimes, things are just so hard, like Seymour, or like Xaldin in KHII, where you lose unexpectedly, and you just have to turn it off and walk away for a few days. Like in FFXII, I was exploring the Sandsea, an ENORMOUS map with no save spot--two or three hours into it, my entire party is wiped out by this Entite, this monster which now (at level 60) is still a challenge to defeat, and this was me at level 15 or so.....and all that exploring, that two hours, was suddenly wasted. That ached. I definitly didn't go back to that for a few days. I just don't pop back from loses like this so easily.

So, Happy Thursday. I'm sorry you couldn't enjoy the details of my week the way I wanted to present them to you. I'll give you a little list, but it just won't be the same. Share in my tragic woe.

Last Thursday, midnight, Bourne Ultimatum. Very good.

Five hours later, waking up and driving to Burbank to pick up my sister's friend from the airport. She stayed with us a few days, 'cause she's from Washington.

Sunday, hung out with Jacqi and Greg and Kaia at a picnic, at Jacqi's house, and at Kaia's house. Watched Guys and Dolls with Brando and Sinatra. A fun movie.

Monday, played KHII and FFXII; Jacqi and Greg dropped by on their way back from the mall.

Tuesday spent the whole day at my mom's classroom, helping out. Mostly entered data on all the posters she has. Also played Oregon Trail on the ooooooold Mac that I moved from one side of the counter to the other. My party (Pluto, Charon, Nix, Hydra, Cerberus) all survived, which is rare.

Yesterday went to the fair with everyone, which had a whole three paragraphs of fun. Looked at old people art, at kid art, at chickens, at barn animals, at rabbits, at lawns, at photography. I had my yearly udon/corndog/cotton candy. No room for an apple tower. I feel entitled to take my time at the fair, to savor it yearly, but that bored everyone away, so it was just me and Carolyn by the end. I enjoy the term and the atmosphere of the Midway, but I don't like the rides. We ended up back at Carolyn's house, watching jellyfish and face eating tumors and gender bending.

Today I went to the Salvation army to get some lounge music records. I ended up buy The Soul of Spain, and the Harmonicats, instead. And a pillow with Matt from Digimon on it. Then to Vons for salty snacks and bottled beverages, and then Jacqi and Greg on the way back. Then Carolyn showed up, and a little bit later Steven appeared, and we had Casino Night. Jacqi raked in most of the money. We also went to the park and examined the new play equipments. We all managed to climb up the little slide. Then we cooked chicken type food, a soup, three minute mashed potatoes and some corn, and also rice. It was cute and fun. Cooking with a bunch of people is entertaining.

Also, we called Jennifer on speaker phone and discussed possible cosplay for the AX next year. Yes. Already.

The big raccoon tried to steal Donnie's food, but I scared it away. Later, I found its babies stuck in our tree, all alone. So we took pictures. They make sounds like a squeaky toy mixed with a dolphin. The babies have cute little bear/badger faces, too.

Also, there was an earthquake at 1 this morning. I'd just gone to sleep, so that when I woke up to the earthquake, I hadn't even known I was asleep. Back at school, I kept expecting to wake up to an earthquake every morning, I don't know why. But I did this morning, but when I sat up, it stopped. And then I wasn't at all sure if there really had been an earthquake--maybe it was just my heartbeat shaking the bed. So I really didn't know if there was or was not an earthquake until I looked it up online this morning.

Okay. I'm sorry this is so dead sounding. My hopes and dreams were instantly shattered, so what do you expect. At least I have Good Eats and Colbert Report to finish off my day. Good night.

-Steph