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So what's the deal with el jay today? It doesn't want to work, and it won't let me comment on anything going on over at nonuglygamers. There's voting to be done! Frustrationzorz!

Last night was insane but really fun. I left work at 4:15, booked it to John & Nick's to pick up my car (I love John and Nick! and Paul who also works there but is not eponymous!). Car was not that expensive, and it has all the appropriate mirrors. I <3 my new mechanics. I drove home, was in the house for approx. 3 minutes to drop off my backpack, pee, say hi to Dann and his new sweatshirt, and grab my earmuffs. Then I rushed off to the T, rode to Porter, and rushed from the T to Judy Jetson's. I <3 my stylist. Linda = teh greatest. It ended up being a bit shorter than I had planned, but it's cute (although today of course I'm having my obligatory day-after-haircut I-hate-my-hair moment, but it's really not bad).

THEN I rushed off to Susanna's. She was having a pumpkin carving get-together, and as it was a BYOP event I'd been lugging a small pumpkin around with me through all the earlier trials and tribulations (but just a small pumpkin, I mean, I know my limits). Once I got to Sue's I met her friends Sara(h) and Monica and Nina, and they were all really nice. We dyed Sue's hair with cherry kool-aid, since she is also being Jessica Rabbit for Halloween (completely independently of you, Rae, not sure how it happened), and then we carved pumpkins. Now, before arriving at Sue's house I hadn't realized a certain fact: I never carved a pumpkin before. Can you believe it? Sue & co. couldn't. I guess we just never did that my house when I was a kid? Or else my dad always did it. But dood, it was totally fun. I gave him a rather traditional pumpkin face with triangle eyes and nose and a mouth with three teeth, and he's adorable. Susanna carved her pumpkin so that it looked sick and she gave it a huge mouth and is planning on keeping some pumpkin guts she can arrange artistically to look like pumpkin vomit. Sue's friend Nina had a huge pumpkin and she carved it to look like an alien, it was so cool, and she's going to put green glowsticks in it instead of a candle, and Monica made hers really happy and excited. Sara(h) took pictures, and hopefully Sue will email them to me today. And then I will post them for you and you will be so HAPPY!!! dee da deedeedee da dee....

Tonight I don't think I'm going to make it out to Salem. I was really really hoping to but this week has just been insane and I'm feeling couch-floppy. I think on the way home I'll stop at CVS (get hair stuff and a litter box!) and Hidden Sweets and the eye doctor (where are my replacement lenses??) and maybe Tello's because I've been meaning to hit their fall sale, and I'll also stop at Blockbuster to rent Van Helsing and whatever else strikes my fancy. Then tonight I will paint my nails for the party tomorrow. I purchased the perfect shade of pale pink to go with my dress. Wow, there's a sentence I never thought I'd say--well, I guess I still haven't *said* it. That's all right then.

To do tomorrow:
- wake up at a decent hour
- shower and shave everything
- bake a delicious cake! (for Mario)
(...actually, I should get started on the baking tonight. Or at least the pudding-making. Y'all will be so impressed by this cake, I can't even wait to show you.)
- get over to Whole Foods because they're having a big anniversary sale and everything is going to be the same price as it was when they first opened in the '70s so that means ASS-CHEAP.
- Party on, Wayne. I should stop at the liquor store tomorrow, too. I think I'm in the mood for some Skyy Citrus and cranberry juice. Ymmuy.

In honor of Halloween I'm using my Gruntilda witchy icon. She's so awesome. Reh!

book/line meme from sporadic_karma

A temple was then built for the goddes in 238, on the advice of the Sibylline Books.
Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, by Alison Futrell

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 26.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
5. ...along with these instructions...
6. and include the author and title of the book.

Salem after all

Okay, so beautiful girlfriends in fairy wings can be convincing. It looks like I'm going to Salem tonight after all. :) I called the eye doctor and they don't have my replacement lenses in anyway, and I stopped at CVS and Hidden Sweets after lunch, and Jorn is going to pick me up a cat box for the cake. I can get out of bed tomorrow morning at a decent hour and make the cake (which really will take a while), and then do my nails in the afternoon. I will have plenty of time tomorrow to get stuff done that I want to get done before the party.

So I'll be trying to stay a bit late at work to make up for some of the time I've lost this week, but then I'm going to skedaddle home to change to a more interesting top and put more gunk in my hair, and leave home by 6:15 at the latest to catch the T to Alewife to meet Kris and Darxus and drive to Salem. And I may just wear my water bra.