up early and off to send off my visa papers. this is exciting. now if i could only get up the courage to contact polly and start seriously trying to finish this damn thesis
10:17 AM

wow. there's an article about thierry on a french resume site. i worked with thierry in france. what this article describes is how thierry manages to support himself as an independant photographer. working with him basically reinforced the dream that joanne and i have of creating a small design firm. we have a ways to go; some classes to take; a portfolio to develop, but i think it's possible (about half of the time). the first step is getting the visa and getting over there, which is technically what this whole blog is supposed to be about. anyone reading this will soon become familiar with my pyrotechnic abilities in the art of digression, if you're not already.

ok i just spent a lot of time trying to find thierry's web page. they were hiding it from the search engines until it was ready. why don't i have the address? the site might not be all that, but the photos are definitely worth a look. well it looks like an email is in order.
4:12 AM

up way too late working on this. still needs some work. need to write the saga and huh sections.
11:21 AM

only this: if they were placed side by side, i doubt that i would be able to distinguish a ferret from a weasel
9:05 AM

uphill, against the wind and in the rain. this was my ride home from work. this is some sort of bizarre punishment for saying how much i enjoy the ride home at 2am. "you like it now, boyo?" ach, so it goes. i got wet and dirty. and i was wearing a fairly nice white shirt, too. it's not so nice now. it has greyish spots and bears a striking resemblance to cream of mushroom soup left in the fridge for just a bit too long.

i had really hoped to complain a bit more, but i'm not in the mood.

i wish i were tired. i've got shit to do before i go to work tomorrow. as i'm not tired, however, maybe i'll work on making this site look a bit nicer. i love illustrator, by the way.

one parting thought: micheal stipe and kevin spacey. are they not uncannily similar in a laid-back-yet-subtly-aggressive sort of way? they've also got that whole cute boy in middle age thing going. (i myself hope to cultivate this look).
3:54 AM

i went to see tom spin at a party. it turned out to be a high school party. i felt extremely out of place and left. my sea star, martin, and i went back to tom, ing and viv's house and watched tarzan (disney). i hadn't seen it yet. it wasn't bad. it was no beauty and the beast, and the phil collins songs were a bit annoying if you actually paid attention to them. all in all, though, the animation was pretty stunning and it made me cry (not too hard to do, though).
8:08 AM

if anyone actually visits this page, rest assured that this is not it. the compass will actually link to other areas and the top banner probably needs to be redone. i got impatient. i wanted to see this thing up, but i probably should have waited. oh well, here it is.
8:04 AM

second day of the new job. i met james (i think), gave him a cigarette. he was glad to have this job. so am i, i guess. i'd just like to do something a bit more creative than "content development". at least i'm doing web work. it'll look good on the cv when i go back to france and then england. i've got tom and cheryl's web sites to work on in the mean time. and now i've got to invent something for this blogger thing. white on black may be readable, but it's pretty damn boring.
3:44 AM

i don't usually do this. it's a bit weird for me, but i need to do something with all of this confusion, with all of this ongoing nonsense that is my life. and so... i've taken the plunge into this strange world in which my life is on display -- at least the parts of it that i choose to divulge. not so different from 'real' life.
5:00 AM