Truancy

Today I took a personal day. I woke up this morning with an overwhelming desire to clean my apartment and, as that rarely happens, I decided that I should act upon it and cleeeaaan.

I am sort of OCD in that, when I am over at other people's houses hanging out or during parties or something, I really like to clean their places. Particularly collecting all the cans and bottles and rinsing them out for recycling. But for some reason when it comes to my own apartment, I am a little less motivated.

Not so good for me. Good for you, though.

So I cleaned and ran a few errands and whatnot, and then proceeded to have a really pleasant night with my new friend Tyler. We baked my favorite dark chocolate chocolate chip cookies with peppermint butter cream icing (the baking was his idea. that's how I knew we would probably be friends) and watching Duel, which is apparently Steven Spielberg's first movie? The cookies came out great and, after eating one, I felt like I had just shot up (oh, sugar!). The movie was wonderfully ridiculous, and made even better because Tyler apparently talks all the way through movies too (or at least this one) which I have a habit of annoying people by doing. Silly banter all around. I really enjoyed myself and the company.

Tomorrow: art day with Kristi and Emma, hooray! I've been looking forward to this all week :) I think I will probably try and do something with the mysterious 'art journal' I'm supposed to be keeping for Poetry/Bookmaking, which Lynn has been completely reticent about. Also probably jewelry, because I haven't made any new jewelry in a really long time, and I have beads out the whazoo. And maybe fixing up a piece or two for Art Expo.

Yeah!

(Also, yes, I gave in and made a fucking blog here too. So now I have three different online journals, all read by different people, in addition to the 9485748 I have handwritten, ha ha ha.)