July 8, 2000 — Having my wishes vetoed by my body

I feel completely horrid at the moment, and I know that, without any doubt, I will feel worse tomorrow. This all because I was trying to find some things in my room and I moved a bit of dust around, combined with my having gone on a ride through a forest in Richmond (it was one of those days when the heat seems to become a solid object as you move into a wooded area, and you can almost taste the allergens in the air). Anyways, as a result of these two things, my allergies are worse then ever (my allergies hover between non-existant and physically debilitating), and days when my allergies are this bad are always, always followed by my being terribly sick with a virus that quietly crept into my system while my defenses were down. I drank several glasses of orange juice and took some vitamins, but that has never helped before so I don't expect it to help this time...

Back at the beginning: I woke up today surprised that it was Saturday, having meant only to take a nap on Friday night. It was sort of disappointing to have my wishes vetoed by my body.

As far as life-affirming experiences go today, I managed to try soy milk for the first time today (it was chocolate; I liked it), I listened to some 80s records I didn't know I had (George Michael; Genesis; Earth, Wind and Fire; DJ Sven; everybody's favourites), and I worked on anti-greg designs. The design for the journal section is finally more or less done, and I've decided what I'm going to end up doing with all the other sections.

Everything anti-greg is going to be much refined once I'm done this update, with only three content sections (journal, discuss, features), three static administration pages (what?, contact, leave) and one promotional page (sellout) for selling stickers and pins and promoting anti-greg productions design work. Basically, people visiting for their first time might checkout all seven sections, but if you've been here before you'll only have a couple of pages to look at, since the newest feature will always be promoted on the front page. And I'm going to have navigation on every page, so everyone will be able to stop bitching at me.

The other thing I was thinking about a lot today was what to do about the site once my parents find out. I think, basically, I'll wait for them to find out and deal with it then. But I want to make a rule that they're not allowed to post on the site or talk to me about what I write in my journal. How mean is that?

I'm going to try and make sure they don't find out until I'm in Toronto, though.