long long update right after the quiz

[jinian]

The quiz went all right. I studied up on my ions and solubilities, and I was able to accomplish pretty much everything on the quiz. The teacher, being a huge freak, gave about fifteen minutes of lecture (in a fifty-minute class) before letting us do the quiz. Most of it was review from yesterday. Argh. Only about five people finished before time was called, and I wasn't one of them, but I came within a whisker of finishing and I'm fairly confident about the problems I finished.

Read Odd Girl Out, which was very interesting and continues to provoke introspection.

Wim and I decided that Eat-Man's brother has a green thumb, and he eats copper and recycles it from his hand into Miracle-Gro. (I realize that the set of the people who will think that's funny is probably just me and Wim.)

Having an ongoing series of dreams about a radio station. Dream-me dates one of the guys who works at this place, who looks just like someone who works at Scarecrow Video in real life. One other strange dream of which I wrote down "Gorey", "'slim thin buns' of pixies", "the painfully grinning faces of the faerie real estate agents", and "all long and thin and downstream flowing".

I succeeded in not seeing someone for two weeks, as I noted a while back was going to happen. We were just really unhappy and it didn't seem to be helping anything so far. I thought I still wanted to continue with it, but we talked about it Monday night and I thought of something snout had said, that she had to think about what kind of person she would be if she didn't do a thing and whether she wanted to be that person. I decided, I guess, that a large part of my reason for wanting to back off from the relationship was that I was anticipating being hurt later; it's logically better to spare myself the ongoing pain if I'm going to have the pain of breaking things off eventually, so it made sense to try to get it over with. Eventually I realized that that's pessimistic and cowardly, and not the right thing at all even though it looked right to begin with. We're still trying to keep enough space for him to work on the other things that need attention, but I can be more helpful by being supportive and present than by being absent. We think. It's hard to tell, but that's what's happening right now.

You know, I like salt and vinegar potato chips, but these are burning my tongue. I think they overdid the sodium diacetate. What do they need that for when they have sea salt and vinegar powder in there already? (says ion-knowing girl, rar.)

Hmm, okay, what else? Failed again to connect with my math teacher last night, decided he is like tech support that listens to five words and gives you the canned response. Still really need to plant things but feel too busy. The cats are all gaining each other's naughtinesses. Had a date with Wim; we saw Millenium Actress, which was very good, and had dinner at Mandarin Chef, where we had been missed since the move. I'll think of more things after posting this, I'm sure.

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[elynne.livejournal.com]

Not much to say, other than general handwaving and squint-eyed kitty look of satisfaction. =^.^= Wish I wasn't feeling so utterly gross... I'd offer to spend time with you this weekend, and greatly enjoy it, but, well, bleargh, y'know? So you get safe e-*hugs* from me. :)