November 14–20, 2001 — A bad decision or two

It’s been awhile since I slacked off like this as far as journals go. It’s been one of those weeks, though, and I’ll make up for it by finally getting a lot of things back online over the next couple of days.

Before I get into that, though, I suppose I should probably give you a bit of a rundown as to what’s been going on over the last week. Exciting as my life is...

Wednesday and Thursday I worked on the message board and made pins, mostly. I wanted to finish the message board before Dave arrived on Friday morning.

I gave up on this idea at around 1:00 am on Thursday night, deciding that I’d rather get a decent amount of sleep and be awake when Dave arrived on his visit from Ottawa the next morning.

I also decided that I’d read a chapter of the third Harry potter book before I went so sleep.

I ended up finishing the book a bit before 6:00 am, not falling to sleep until almost an hour later.

The doorbell woke me up to announce Dave’s arrival the next day. We went with Jeremy, who had been Dave’s driver on the trip from Ottawa, for pizza at Amato’s. Then we went downtown, met up with Nathan and Laura, and went to Amato’s again on our way back home at around dinner time.

We played Scrabble and listened to music until it was late. Amy came over; so did Elaine, when Andrew came home.

In a lot of ways, it was a very long night.

I’d locked my door by mistake the night before, and I woke up when Nathan tried to open it. He’d stayed overnight and wanted to wake me up in what would undoubtedly have been an unpleasant fashion.

We eventually made it downtown on our way to Rotate This. Amy and Jeff came along, and I met up with Matt at the store and gave him the pins he’d asked for for his launch party.

I bought the new Hey Mercedes and Andrew used his employee status at Blockbuster to get us the first DVD in the Sopranos box set to watch that night.

Then we went home. After eating at Amato’s again.

During the afternoon, we made buttons. I cut out the circles and Dave assembled the buttons in the button press. He seemed to be enjoying it more than I have for awhile.

Saturday night was a bit less crowded than Friday night had been. We watched four hours of Sopranos episodes and went to sleep.

Dave woke me up in the morning. I think I was already awake, but I probably would have lied in bed for quite awhile longer, conscious or not, if he hadn’t knocked on my door.

He reminded me that I still hadn’t scanned the KrazyFest journal, so I went to work on that, trying to be quick about it in case Jeremy returned from Guelph around lunchtime as planned.

As it turned out, Jeremy didn’t show up until late in the afternoon. So I had plenty of time to scan the journal.

After Dave left, I spent a few hours writing captions for the journal entries and coding the pages they’ll be on once I’ve setup the features section again. Tomorrow, hopefully.

I’ve spent the last two days (being Monday and Tuesday) doing little beyond trying to finish the antigreg discussion board. I have time to finish it tonight before I go to bed, but I don’t think I have the energy. I’m completely exhausted as far as redesigning message boards goes and I don’t want to think about it anymore.

I’ll finish it tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I’ve been wearing pajama bottoms instead of boxer shorts for the last few days because I’m out of clean underwear. So I’ve decided that once the message board is done, I will reward myself by doing my laundry while reading the fourth Harry Potter book in the laundromat. Then, I’ll go to see the Harry Potter movie, which, embarrassingly (depending on how you look at it), I still haven’t seen.

But it’ll be pajama pants and a life without Harry Potter movies until the message board is finished. I’ve promised myself that much.

The girl in Maine that I became friends with over AIM a few weeks ago hasn’t had the Internet since the beginning of November. Then, two days ago, she got it back. She called on Saturday night and everything seemed fine. We spoke on AIM yesterday night and I thought the same. But she seemed to get rather annoyed with me today and I don’t know if she’s really all that keen on talking to me anymore.

I’m not sure that I’m all that good at keeping friends.

It probably hasn’t helped that I’ve been intensely moody for the last five or six days. The trauma of the weekend made things worse, and I’ve been going up and down a lot. While going for a walk last night, I felt happier than I had in a very long time for no real reason at all — I was just lost in daydreams. A few hours later, I felt darker than I have since before I moved to Toronto last year.

Normally I hover around the middle (or a bit below it, probably) and never have to worry about moods getting in the way of things. I’d really like to get back to that again.

I think that’s about it. Once I re-code the member control panel, the new message board will be ready to go. You probably won’t be all that impressed when you see it, but I’m almost starting to feel satisfied with the way it’s looking. I guess we’ll see how it goes.

And, ideally, the features section (and the KrazyFest journal) will come online shortly after the message board does.

Promise.